It had always appeared to be the case that the assurance given the citizenry by Town Clerk Royston King in a statement last week that following the withdrawal of services by City Hall’s substantive service providers, Cevons Waste Management and Puran Brothers, the City was putting in place contingency measures to manage, in an environmental friendly manner, the city’s waste disposal, was little more than just another example of the municipality getting ahead of itself. No less fanciful was Mr. King’s assertion the City Hall will “re-tool, re-fleet and re-equip” its Solid Waste Department “to haul and dispose of at least 60% of the city’s waste by the end of December 2017” and that “Technical teams and mechanics will be retrained to service and maintain trucks with new technologies.” As one of City Hall’s own employees with whom, this newspaper spoke, put it, “pigs will fly first.”
Anyone who has even a remote understanding of how City Hall works would be aware that these pronouncements are no more than the vocalization of wishful thinking. But perhaps more than that they are manifestations of the low esteem in which the municipality holds the citizenry.
