

Humboldt Supes! Help Garberville deal with our Trash problem Please!
The Issue
Garberville has a serious TRASH problem! Our trash cans have overflowed all summer long as the receptacles provided are no longer big enough to handle the excess flow of garbage caused by trimmigrants and food trucks - to go foods. It makes our town look like Garbageville. This is the first thing tourists see when they pull into town and it is a huge turnoff. Some tourists have stated they drove right through instead of stopping after seeing the trash piles. The citizen taxpayers and merchants are begging you to allot some funds to provide larger receptacles and more frequent pickup. Currently - we have Recology picking up as a FAVOR instead of paid pickup and a handful of volunteers who clean the excess and neither of these has made a dent in the piles of trash all over town. Recology only picks up what is in the cans - but the cans are far too small and boxes and bags of trash are always piled up beside them. If we are ever to become a tourist destination and save our flailing economy - we need to clean up our streets. Southern Humboldt provides massive cannabis tax dollars and those dollars should pay for trash cleanup which is in no small part caused by the trimmigrants and cannabis industry. In addition - our merchants and restaurant owners bring in tax dollars as well and deserve some of those dollars to be used keeping our town looking nice. Customers should not have to wade through piles of garbage to get into our stores. It is a health hazard as well as an eyesore. We are asking that you please find some funding for Garberville to have CLEAN STREETS. Thank you.

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The Issue
Garberville has a serious TRASH problem! Our trash cans have overflowed all summer long as the receptacles provided are no longer big enough to handle the excess flow of garbage caused by trimmigrants and food trucks - to go foods. It makes our town look like Garbageville. This is the first thing tourists see when they pull into town and it is a huge turnoff. Some tourists have stated they drove right through instead of stopping after seeing the trash piles. The citizen taxpayers and merchants are begging you to allot some funds to provide larger receptacles and more frequent pickup. Currently - we have Recology picking up as a FAVOR instead of paid pickup and a handful of volunteers who clean the excess and neither of these has made a dent in the piles of trash all over town. Recology only picks up what is in the cans - but the cans are far too small and boxes and bags of trash are always piled up beside them. If we are ever to become a tourist destination and save our flailing economy - we need to clean up our streets. Southern Humboldt provides massive cannabis tax dollars and those dollars should pay for trash cleanup which is in no small part caused by the trimmigrants and cannabis industry. In addition - our merchants and restaurant owners bring in tax dollars as well and deserve some of those dollars to be used keeping our town looking nice. Customers should not have to wade through piles of garbage to get into our stores. It is a health hazard as well as an eyesore. We are asking that you please find some funding for Garberville to have CLEAN STREETS. Thank you.

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Petition created on September 24, 2021