Cheryl Hentz has offered a clarification to her post about the garbage fee. See the Eye on Oshkosh blog as well as her comment in my first post on this topic. She points out that Bryan Bain did not say that he voted against the garbage fee.
What I have not been able to understand is why this issue has been "confusing" for some folks. Five Councilors voted for the garbage fee, and as a result citizens had to engage in a time consuming effort to get the fee set to zero for 2007. The vote for Resolution 06-177 ("Establish Fee For Collection/Solid Waste and Recyclables") took place on May 9, 2006. The five councilors voting for it were: Scheuermann, Bain, Tower, Castle, and Mattox.
Resolution 06-177 was not a budget resolution. I point out that obvious fact because part of the "confusion" being spread about this issue is that some of the Councilors were against the garbage fee, but voted for the budget that included the fee. This kind of framing of the issue makes it sound like they didn't support the fee, but would have had to vote against the entire budget in orer to oppose it. This is not accurate.
Anyone who voted for 06-177 was voting to support the fee. That doesn't mean they liked the fee and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means they voted for the fee. Period. The budget vote was something entirely different.
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