New Recycle cans in the neighborhood

[carpnter]

Public Works is starved for funding.

Thank you Mr. Mayor.....people look around at our problems, look at the man in charge of the problems the last 4 years. If you don't have a sidewalk or potholes and Public Works is a broken record, look at what "I'm With Alvin" has done for the city. Vote May 19 for a new record, the old one is broken.

Yeah.  that asshole.  He failed to pull millions of dollars out of thin air, while the Republican governor of the state was steadily reducing taxes and cutting the budgets that pay for those kinds of things.

But Im surprised to see you take the stance that Alvin should have steeply raised taxes in the middle of the Depression.  Its nice to know that we agree on something, even if Alvin doesn't have the power to actually do that. (City Council is in charge of the legislation).

Its too bad that those guys were busy creating a low tax, no services environment for moral purity.  We might have gotten some of those things done.

The budget the mayor proposed was a complete joke.  There is plenty of blame to go around. 

[fieldafm]

It was within the actual money that the City Council sent to him.  Which made it a complete joke.

Blaming the Mayor's budget on the City Council is probably the dumbest thing you have ever uttered.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

... He failed to pull millions of dollars out of thin air...

That's what City Council is for, right?

City Council group finds $12M in unused taxpayer dollars

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/news/local/city-council-group-finds-12m-unused-taxpayer-dolla/njxdZ/

The City Council group reviewing all of the capital improvement projects in the city found $12 million taxpayer dollars sitting unused.
"We've been told there isn't any money to do road projects with. Now here's $12 million," said councilwoman Lori Boyer.

She has spent months poring through city accounting reports. Each time, she said more taxpayer money starts popping up.
"It seems like there should be an easy way to get answers," said Boyer.

Turns out you actually have to tax people if they want the kind of services that go along with being a real city.

Kind of helps if you know where that tax money is going first. 

[mtraininjax]

Turns out you actually have to tax people if they want the kind of services that go along with being a real city.

That's if you know how to do math and can actually balance a budget, which he has failed to achieve in the last 4 years. Good to know people on the council can do math and realize that borrowing money to pay for basic services is a no-no.

Where is that city audit of the books again? When is it to be completed? Raise the minimum wage for city workers, but how do you plan to pay for it Mr. Mayor? Oh yeah, that 20% of your salary which has been spent 18x to Sunday, and of course, the pot-luck and spaghetti dinners, why not a good ol' suthern' FISH FRY?

[Know Growth]

 Well, today,finally,well in to a lazy Friday afternoon and a six pack of Mad Manatee and a can of spray paint (one of life's finest moments!!  )........the Recycle "Can" obnoxious Safety Yellow Top subdued.Carefully taped off certain areas,then painted the signature obnoxious Alert Warning color Lid with        Professional Avondale Green.

  Much easier on the eyes 24/7

Any Idiot can see this remains a COJ RECYCLE bin even after professionally Subdued.

I did paint over the GPS node- will be interesting to track response.   

[Jax native]

   Can you explain why you felt the need to spray paint over recycle bins which COJ provided with information asking not to paint over, not to disregard the number assigned to your house & GPS mode , and paint w/ what you call "Avondale green"?  Why do you think you are 'special"?  Your arrogance is pretty ugly.  You are so proud of this brilliant 'civil disobedience' you brag on MJ?  Why don't you spend your time doing something constructive for the community instead of being an assshole?  Seriously "civil disobedience over a recycle bin"? So, what's next?  Putting your computer and electronic crap in trash for a landfill?  You are the guy who has 23 items and tries to get by in 10 items or less at Publix.  You are the guy who refuses to pick up dog poop.  You are the guy who trashes a public park, thinking "somebody else will pick it up".  You are the guy who bitches about what kind of craft beer is the best. You are the guy who parks his car in the middle of a two space place, thinking you will not get your car nicked.  You are the guy who takes a 6 top for a 2 person meal.  You are the guy who speeds down Post Street because 'laws" don't apply to you.   What a bold person you must be?!?!  Unimpressed.

[mtraininjax]

Unimpressed.

+1

Or as Stephen so eloquently often states....YAWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNN!

[blfair]

Do people think their cans have GPS tracking devices?

[Dog Walker]

They might have a smart chip in them for statistical or identification purposes, but no way do they have a GPS unit in them.  That takes electricity.

I painted the alert yellow, super-ugly top of my bin the same blue as the old recycle bins and Solid Waste refused to pick it up.  After I ridiculed that decision to everybody in the City government I know, Jim Robinson reversed that decision and said that Solid Waste would pick up a recycle bin with any color top as long at it could be distinguished from a regular garbage bin.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

The fact that so many of you are so up in arms over the yellow lids is quite funny to me.  Are you really that sensitive?  Do you need a hug?

Seriously, just send me your address and I'll be there within 24 hours with a can of chicken noodle soup, a hug and some words of encouragement.  It's the least I can do to ease the stress some of you are dealing with.

[Dog Walker]

If someone were to march up and down your street with one of those portable air horns blowing it over and over again you would object.  To those of us who are sensitive to visual stimulus the alert yellow being plastered everywhere has the same effect. 

As a safety measure it has its place, just as a blowing horn does, but repeated everywhere it is obnoxious and looses its effectiveness as a way of drawing attention to a danger.

Do recycle bins really need the equivalent of a scream to distinguish them from regular garbage cans?

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

If someone were to march up and down your street with one of those portable air horns blowing it over and over again you would object.  To those of us who are sensitive to visual stimulus the alert yellow being plastered everywhere has the same effect. 

As a safety measure it has its place, just as a blowing horn does, but repeated everywhere it is obnoxious and looses its effectiveness as a way of drawing attention to a danger.

Do recycle bins really need the equivalent of a scream to distinguish them from regular garbage cans?

So you chose to paint someone else's property because it was 'visually unappealing' to you?  Not much different (in theory) than someone who tags walls is it? 

Sounds kinda hypocritical to me, DW, but carry on.

and.....

[Dog Walker]

No problem with my vision other than being near sighted as a mole and red=green colorblind. It's a congenital distaste for ugly, out-of-place visual stimulus.  I am an art collector and love brightly painted houses since I can see what colors they really are.  Pink is beige to me.

Have you ever been near a construction site for a long time and had to listen to the beep-beep-beep for hours?  Hard to tune out, no?

Safety yellow, also called alert yellow is the visual equivalent of someone shouting at you.  It has its place which is why school buses are that color.

LOOK OUT!

Doesn't belong in front of every house in the neighborhood.

If they had used purple or pink it wouldn't have had the same jarring effect.  Only blaze orange, used on hunting vests, would have been worse.

[Jax native]

The fact that so many of you are so up in arms over the yellow lids is quite funny to me.  Are you really that sensitive?  Do you need a hug?

Seriously, just send me your address and I'll be there within 24 hours with a can of chicken noodle soup, a hug and some words of encouragement.  It's the least I can do to ease the stress some of you are dealing with.

Again, this guerilla protest has to be the most immature, narcissistic, unaware or care about others in the community...........I give you painters a trophy of dog shit.  No GPS, I meant they have tracked each bin to an address, and told not to damage, destroy or alter the recycle bins provided by COJ.  But, Mr. Avondale Green feels he is so entitled to his own thoughts and belligerent actions he drank a six pack & painted over COJ property.   

Kudos to you, asshole.  You are the picture of the entitled white guy who sit his in yard yelling for people to get off his lawn.  Paint your recycle cans and brag about it on social media as if you have solved some friggin real problem.  You suck.  You're wrong, walk it off. 

[Jax native]

If someone were to march up and down your street with one of those portable air horns blowing it over and over again you would object.  To those of us who are sensitive to visual stimulus the alert yellow being plastered everywhere has the same effect. 

As a safety measure it has its place, just as a blowing horn does, but repeated everywhere it is obnoxious and looses its effectiveness as a way of drawing attention to a danger.

Do recycle bins really need the equivalent of a scream to distinguish them from regular garbage cans?

"Sensitive to visual stimulus" ?  What the friggin fuck? Are you serious or just a old ass guy who wants to bitch about life.  Recycle cans do not equate with a friggin'  bullhorn up and down the street.  You are a grumpy, unpleasant, unhappy, hateful individual who thinks the world revolves around him and his white maleness.  YOur argument is so full of dog excrements, its hard to respond, but I did out of courtesy to you. 

I ask you to please consider living living in a community with some social norms or social responses.  It will be good for you, I assure you. 

Painting over recycle bins like they are curing the cause of cancer.  Sad they have nothing else important in their lives to work on.