No to Pay for Hauling Your Garbage from Home to Backyard? Vote Yes on L!

My Opinion on Measure L Recently I got a lot of people’s email asking how to vote on measure L because they are very confused by the yard signs and flood of mailers. I don’t have time to response your email one by one, so here is my opinion on measure L for your reference. I am voting YES on measure L, the reason is very simple: I pay my garbage fee $34 per month because I don’t want to leave the garbage in my house or my back yard. I pay a garbage company to haul away my garbage, so I don’t suffer the stink. Voting NO on L is the exactly the same as paying a garbage company to dump your garbage into your house and backyard. Will you do it? You will say NO without any hesitation! If you simply just dump your garbage into your backyard, you would pay zero dollars to the garbage company. No fee can be cheaper than zero dollars garbage fee. Therefore, it is crystal clear that you should vote YES on L. Folks, please vote yes on measure L. Don’t be fooled by big money or those mailers paid for by the Newby Landfill owner, Republic Services Inc. If we vote no on L, it will give San Jose government an excuse to grant the expansion permit to Newby Landfill since they need more time to fulfill the garbage disposal contract. So if we lost on measure L, the Newby Landfill expansion permit will follow. Folks, do you know why Republic Services Inc. is willing to spend so much money $350,000 or more on this small contract with Milpitas (10% of the Newby Landfill’s capacity)? Because Measure L will be serving as a bridge for them to get the Newby Landfill expansion permit. That is what they really want! You may claim you can’t smell it and you can tolerate it, but please have mercy on those folks including thousands of kids who suffer the odor daily and the potential health impact. The city with a garbage stink has no future! If you really love your city, please vote Yes on L. It doesn’t make sense to pay for disposing of your garbage from your house to your backyard! Let’s vote Yes on L to haul away our garbage! Please don’t forget signing for Oct 26th Newby Landfill Expansion final decision making meeting at http://www.tinyurl.com/newbyfinaldecisionmeeting. Free buses will be provided. Picking up time is 5:00PM at Marina Grocery store. Two days left to sign up! Thanks! Jennifer Strohfus