Calgary city council has voted against amalgamating fees for black, green, and blue bin collection on service bills sent to residents in a meeting Tuesday. <\/p>\n
As is, the three separate charges are separated on the bill.<\/p>\n
In debate, councillors were concerned that removing the breakdown of the bill could make it more difficult for Calgarians to understand what they are paying for.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it also puts us in a position where, in the instance that the cost to deliver one of these carts goes up, it\u2019s now a single line item, it\u2019s just gone up,\u201d said Ward 9 Coun. Harrison Clark. \u201cHow do we articulate how and why?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mayor Jeromy Farkas thinks one of the best parts of the Calgary property tax bill is seeing how much you actually pay for city services.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd just having one big payment for a bunch of things doesn\u2019t invite that conversation about the great value that Calgarians are getting,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe amalgamating this and having one single bill payment is trying to fix a problem that doesn\u2019t exist. If anything, I\u2019d like to see us go in a different direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
In support of the idea, Ward 4 Coun. DJ Kelly pointed out that the cost for each service is not exact, and one charge would be simpler.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we brought on blue cart, when we brought on green cart, we kind of did them incremently,\u201d he said. \u201cIt really is, as Coun. [Andrew] Yule said in his open, it\u2019s basically one service now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most of council disagreed, with many arguing listing the cost per cart is good for transparency of fees.<\/p>\n
Councillors ultimately voted 10-5 against changing the status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary city council has voted against amalgamating fees for black, green, and blue bin collection on service bills…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-604058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}