The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-02-03
COUNCIL SETTLES

ger service. Councilman Albury
was outspoken in his stand on
the matter for the city purchas-
ing trucks and taking over the
service. He declared he felt that
some action should be taken at
once in remedYing the existing
situation. He also stated that he
wes not in favor of having a
private contractor. carry on the
work because he felt that il was
the citY's duty to operate the
service. In answer 10 a remark
made that there was a shortage
of manpower now. MIR. Albury
said: IF we can't get manpower.
well get woman power"
Councilman Carbonell made a
strong bid for the city operating
the service. and stated that there
should be no further time lost
in getting the service resumed.
He said that the city could oper-
ate the service just as well as
anyone else. and stated further
mere. that it was really the citY's
duty to carry on with the serv-
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Councilman Gril1on stated that
he was heartily in favor of the
city operating the service at this
time due to the fact that no one
had made any proposal to take
over complete operation of the
service under private contract.
He also declared that the city
in years past has operated the
service with no charges being
made to the people, and since
the people now receiving this
service would pay the city the
same as they have been doing I'M
der private contract, he saw no
reason why the city could not
operate it now to better advant-
age, inasmuch as the receipts
taken in would make the service
self-sustaining, provided that ii
is operated in business-like
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Councilman Saunders. 80 who
voted flor the purchase of the
breaking the deadlock on
the issue, stated that he, was vot =
ing for city-operation because
there was no other course to pur-
sue at this time. g He said that
with the present arrangement.
operating the, trucks now. in use,
that this will take care of the
in the meantime,
which he said was the main fac
tor after all. a4si.oq -5...o
Councilman Sweeting was very
reticent on the subject, but still
was opposed to the city taking
over the service, saying that he
felt that inasmuch as no fund
had been set UP for the scaven-
ger service, that he felt that it
would not be the right thing to
do to break inc the other funds
on hand to take care of purchas-
ing trucks for city-operation.
Council President Freeman
stated that he still felt that the
matter should be laid over for
further consideration in order that
some plan may be adopted for
having the service operated I'M
der private contract by other
parties. He also. stated that he
would not be in favor of taking
money from the general revenue
fund to pay for trucks. ''.'1 -
Mayor Willard M. Albury said
that he would stand ready to CO.
operate with the council an any
action it may take regarding the
operation of the scavehger serv-
ice. The mayor sanctioned the
scavenger ordinance that was
passed at the last meeting. He
stated that he would sign the
ordinance, which would enable
the city to start at once in the
preliminary arrangements in the
set-up to furnish complete
scavenger and garbage service
for the City of Key West.
Guy Carleton addressed the
meeting and stated that he felt
that the city should operate the
service, and said that he could
see no reason why it could not.
In answer to a remark made
about some people were too poor
to pay for garbage service. Mr..
Carleton said; If there is anyone
unable to pay for garbage serv-
ice, then they should be too poor
70 have garbage"
Isadore Weintraub, Chas. Arch
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