Comments on: Century Approves Garbage Rate Increase, Mayor Disputes Balance Sheet

By: William Reynolds

William Reynolds — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:12:49 +0000

>> How much do people that live outside of Century pay for the same garbage pickup?

$24.16, but it’s a higher level of service from ECUA. ECUA offers the same 90-gallon container for garbage once per week, plus a 90-gallon recyclable container, plus a weekly pickup of yard trash, plus free pickup of bulky items like furniture, rugs and carpet, bags of clothes, etc.

ECUA offers a reduced lifeline ($11.50) and senior rate ($20.24) that Century does not.

By: Jus Me

Jus Me — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:48:03 +0000

So with all the bickering…just a question. How much do people that live outside of Century pay for the same garbage pickup? (Such as Molino, Cantonment, Pensacola etc)..

By: Century Resident

Century Resident — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:21:50 +0000

In response to (Non-resident/but bill payer on December 12th, 2019 4:05 pm)

I never said the people outside the incorporated area didn’t pay their bills, or taken care of, or any of that. You must of misread my comment.

What I did say is relates to this very thing. If Escambia County right now mandated Solid Waste service in ALL unincorporated parts of the county and made all of those citizens pay that bill, yet they took those revenues and funded something that supplies the incorporated areas in which the citizens there isn’t paying for. That is Illegal.

Not saying anything about anyone not paying their bill at all. We all know its no secret that,
#1 The Gas Department is losing tremendous amounts of money.
#2 According to Buzz there are no leaks!
#3 The Gas Department serves folks way outside of the Town limits.
#4 The Town is taking money that is mandated, (taxed) in my opinion, on the residents of this Town, and spending it on other departments that supplies people outside of Town.

If the Gas department is not making money then the users of the Gas service should pay for that. Not the users of the Garbage and phony mandated taxed “debris pickup”.

By: Non-resident/but bill payer

Non-resident/but bill payer — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:05:01 +0000

Century Resident, we outside of Century limits actually pay our bills. We don’t get our bills “taken” care of and we don’t tap into a gas line illegally. We also don’t get to vote your idiot Mayor and Counsel out of office. Nor do we put an ex-mayor on the by-law committed who allowed so many of these problem to escalate and allowed her son to get by with no bill for years!
So look to your town, cause if I were to get a debris bill out where I live, I stop buying city gas and go to propane.
So don’t cut off the hand that is obviously feeding your town!

By: Kris Carlson

Kris Carlson — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:01:13 +0000

And we wonder why the cost of living continues to inflate, these “inflationary” increases only leads to more inflation. Soon century could end up being Pensacola where rents are $1,000+ a month. It really does add up.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:04:06 +0000

Garbage rate increase?
So how much for Hawkins!

By: retired

retired — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:29:36 +0000

Remember you got to have the extra money to make those personal loans, to the board members, buy cameras, ETC. The Century Town Council NEEDS A RAISE, for all their hard work.

By: Reba

Reba — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:31:15 +0000

SOOOOOOOOOO much wrong going on here. They must all be beyond the law, because there are just too many things going on that are illegal…:(

By: Gman

Gman — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 11:07:59 +0000

If the accountants numbers are wrong fire him or her, if the Mayor is wrong fire him on election day.

By: Century Resident

Century Resident — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 07:40:29 +0000

Few issues here.
First, if the debris pickup is ran by the street department and funded out of the general fund, then why bill 23.19 as Garbage? Get that wonderful accountant y’all got to create another revenue and expense account named debris pickup. Bill for debris pickup separate than garbage, and pay for debris tipping fees out of that expense account.

Second, if you are making 40,000 profit on the debris service then clearly that makes the $ 6.21 portion of “garbage” unjustifiable charged that is on the verge of a “tax”.

Third is simply this. The gas department serves customers outside of the incorporated area of Century. I do believe it is illegal to take revenues from a service such as the debris pickup that y’all mandated for all residents in the Town Limits and fund a gas department that serves the unincorporated area which does not have the mandated debris pickup fee.

Seems like an unjust taxation to me. And there is plenty of case law on this that I certainly will be bringing to your attention William. Keep reporting the facts sir, they squirm when the rubber meets the road!