Schedules-plank

==Service to Citizens==
The priority for various city schedules should reside with the residents. 
Wants and needs of the citizens are more important than that of the workers, managers and old-style thinking.
===Premium Service and Schedules===
* Instant service and around-the-clock services that are demanded by citizens, above and beyond the basic services, can be provided with user charges and fees. The citizens service mentality needs to be understood within cost boundaries.
====Trash collection====
:There is no trash collection on the day of an election. Perhaps the union workers asked for the holiday, or perhaps the city managers demanded the holiday, so as to work the polls for get-out-the-vote efforts. If the banks are open on election days, it seems to make sense that we should be able to pick-up trash on those days too. When trash day holidays occur, the city looks like a mess. Most of the people put their trash onto the sidewalks and streets a day early, fooled yet again with another vacation day for trash removal. 
The city garbage pick-up schedule needs to be as straight-forward as possible. Let's move to eliminate every holiday except the January 1, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
* A four-day work week for garbage collectors would be fine if it is more cost effective.
====Trash collection for the Recyled materials====
The city needs to be green and needs to recycle to a much better degree.
The city's every other week recyle schedule results in lots of blue bags on the curb for an extra week. The city streets and sidewalks are a mess. 
We should try to recylce in a better manner and not confuse the public to such a degree so as the trash ends up on the sidewals all week long.
Is there a market for recycled materials? Or do they just pile up somewhere? Is there a market for glass?, tires?, newspapers, plastic? etc. If there is no market for these and if the city is broke, then maybe they shouldn't recycle for a while, unless the recycling brings the city a profit. These are tough times. But for profitable materials, then recycle them. Probably only aluminum is profitable.
===Mayor's Schedule===
* The Mayor's schedule should be made public and posted onto the internet.
===My Public Schedule===
* As an elected public official, my schedule will be public. People will be able to find out what I am doing and where I'm located on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
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