Metro cuts back on brush removal services
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Metro residents are in for a big shock, and it starts immediately.
It centers around curb side brush pick up - how and when your refuse will be removed.
For as long as anyone can remember, Metro residents have been piling brush piles in front of their homes five times a year.
Metro public works crews would come, free of charge, and dispose of the waste.
Well times they are a changing.
The number of trucks dedicated to this has been cut almost in half…from 18 vehicles down to 10.
The number of men cleaning up these debris piles is being slashed almost 30% from 36 workers down to 10.
The number of times crews will come through a neighborhood is being reduced from 5 times to 3.
Public works director Billy Lynch tells Messed Up the changes are immediate and all because his budget was cut almost $2 million.
Milburn Davis has enjoyed curb-side brush pick up here at his Graymar Acres home for 40 years.
The 84 year old says his brush pile has been out here for close to 6 months, because he was unsure of the new schedule.
Lynch says knowing when crews are going to be in your neighborhood is the key.
If you don’t want to wait for the work crews, the city has 2 drop off sites for citizens. It is free of charge.
For all the details, go on line and see when your neighborhood is scheduled.
You can even register for email notification and they’ll tell you when trucks will be around.
http://www.nashville.gov/recycle/brush.htm
I live at 3336 Jansing dr. nashville tn. 37211 when will there be a pickup in my area?
hello, I watched your bit on brush today and it really upsets me… Bill didn’t tell you that for the last three years, the contracted company SRS is the one that was picking up the brush out of 9 of the 12 routes that metro has for brush… He didnt tell you that SRS picked up 8 times a year in the nine routes. The reason I know all this is I worked for SRS for 21 months… if you would like to talk to me. please feel free to call me 615-474-0404 or just email me lmgage8820@yahoo.com… THEIR NOT TELLING ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!! And 16 people lost their jobs because of the metro cuts.. And we all took pride in our jobs.. THAT’S MESSED UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I live at 1349 Timber Valley Dr. I’ve had Trash and debree out at the Curb since The Febuary Tornados that went thru Sumner, and Macon Counties. With all the rain that we had back then I had all of the neighbors trash and limbs wash into my back yard and along the side of my house in the wash that Metro put there when my home was built in 1995. I piled some of it at the curb in March and still have a pile in my back yard waiting for Metro to pick up.
Well if we stop paying property Taxes on the Things we’re not getting Maybe Mayor Dean will wake up and give us our services back. Gee they can give Free Buss Rides to Metro Employees, But WE CAN’T GET Our Brush picked up! Mine was suppose to be picked up on May 12th. Here it is July 17th. What is up with That! Start Deducting the services I’m not getting like pot holes filled, and brush picked up, and Kids not Learning in School from my $1588.78 a year. I don’t even have kids to send to school. I’m on a fixed income of disability,of 715.00 a month. Why don’t these so called Goverment officials try living on what I have too. And see How they Feel about all this.
I’m so discussed with this Goverment and it’s leaders.
Why not stop expecting the government to take care of you?
I paid into my disability insurance since I was working at 16yrs old. So where do you get off saying goverment taking care of me? I can’t help it the doctor mess up, when he did my Two back surgreys. I wish I wasn’t on disability. Because one can’t live off it.
You better hope Lizzie, you don’t ever have to live on it.
I’m in 37206 and they said (when I called them in the last couple of weeks) they are supposed to be in this area right now. I think it was the first week of July when I called and they were supposed to come that following week and be in the area for 2 weeks picking up. I haven’t seen them. The Sheriff’s Dept sent some deputy’s and a crew out to pick up what we had laying out. I don’t know if that’s normal or not though. (This was at a business, not a residence.)
I sort of agree with Leonard, maybe we tax payers should decide that, in order to live, we are going to have to cut our tax payments in certain areas. If you don’t want your brush picked up, don’t pay tax for that. If you don’t want your garbage and/or recycling picked up, don’t pay that tax. If you don’t have kids in school, don’t pay that tax…and so on and so on…As our earnings increase, if they ever do, we might be able to add a little more to the tax kitty.
Of course I know it can’t work that way but it might be nice if it did!
June 25, 2008 the pile I had started was picked up by the Chipper truck. I understood we had almost a month before they would come by; from having called them. This past week I recieved their email notification that they are comming soon….