COUNTY MAY BILL FOR TRASH MOVE AIMED AT DESERT DUMPING.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer ROSAMOND - Aiming to reduce the illegal dumping that litters the desert outside East Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County towns, Kern County officials are considering charging residents $18.91 a month for mandatory trash collection service. Requiring residents and businesses to pay for trash service, supporters say, will make it less likely that people wanting to avoid trash or landfill fees will load a pickup truck full of trash, haul it into the desert and dump it. ``It is the pet peeve pet peeve n. Informal Something about which one frequently complains; a particular personal vexation. Noun 1. pet peeve - an opportunity for complaint that is seldom missed; "grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve" of a lot of people,'' Kern County Supervisor Don Maben said last week about desert dumping. ``You would be surprised how often that came up when I was knocking on doors during my campaign.'' The Kern County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. will vote Tuesday on a resolution directing the county Waste Management Department to prepare a report and set a May 20 hearing on a plan for mandatory trash collection service in Rosamond, Mojave, Boron boron (bōr`ŏn) [New Gr. from borax], chemical element; symbol B; at. no. 5; at. wt. 10.81; m.p. about 2,300°C;; sublimation point about 2,550°C;; sp. gr. 2.3 at 25°C;; valence +3. and Tehachapi. A similar ordinance was put into effect for metropolitan Bakersfield in 2000. ``The county has subsequently received numerous complaints of illegal dumping in eastern Kern County,'' Daphne daphne, in botany daphne, common name for, and genus name of, certain low deciduous or evergreen shrubs native to Eurasia. In the United States several naturalized species are cultivated for their handsome foliage and fragrant flowers, e.g., D. Washington, director of the county's Waste Management Department, said in a letter to the board. ``The Waste Management Department feels that expanding universal collection to the more populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. areas of eastern Kern County will increase the effort to reduce trash stockpiling stock·pile n. A supply stored for future use, usually carefully accrued and maintained. tr.v. stock·piled, stock·pil·ing, stock·piles To accumulate and maintain a supply of for future use. and illegal dumping in this area.'' A Mojave civic leader endorsed the idea. ``It makes sense to me,'' said Bill Deaver, president of the Mojave Town Council. ``If we can do something to reduce the trash being dumped in the area I'm in favor of it. What we're doing now is not working.'' Maben, whose 2nd District includes the communities covered by the proposal, said illegal dumping was one of the major issues to surface during his run for supervisor last fall. The proposal calls for setting a rate of $18.91 per month for parcels with one or two residential units; $85.69 for parcels with three residential units; and $110.63 per month for four residential units. The proposal requires all residential and nonresidential properties, excluding vacant and uninhabitable property, to obtain garbage collection A software routine that searches memory for areas of inactive data and instructions in order to reclaim that space for the general memory pool (the heap). Operating systems may or may not provide this feature. service from a franchise garbage hauler. If approved, the mandatory trash collection would go into effect by Jan. 1. The county is looking to include the trash collection charges on the property tax rolls. The proposal calls for limiting rate hikes to the lesser of 5 percent or the consumer price index. The action to be considered by the supervisors on Tuesday includes directing the Waste Management Department to determine what parcels in each community are to be included. |
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