Comments on: Recycling Smackdown?

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Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:42:33 +0000

[...] know I’m not the first one to say how pathetic it is that New Orleans can’t get its basic recycling program [...]

By: J.B.

J.B. — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:55:28 +0000

Civitch, I applaud your pithy & succinct characterization of the meeting.

The T-P weighs in, sorta:
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/11/2008_no_budget_omits_curbside.html

By: Civitch

Civitch — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:31:37 +0000

For those who don’t have a cable-equipped TV at their office, here’s my summary of the meeting:

Veronica White: Here is my PowerPoint presentation, which I will (mis)read to you verbatim in order to torture you and preempt any real questions about what my department does.

Stacy Head: I don’t quite understand why we’re being told that the contract doesn’t say what it clearly says.

Shelley Midura: Ditto.

Arnie Fielkow: Very gracious, non-offensive ditto.

VW: Well since I am on TRIAL here (she really did say that, and then slammed a book shut)

Cynthia Willard-Lewis: Let’s be civil! (smiling and blinking)

VW, and both reps of Richard’s and Metro: We are asking you and the citizenry to believe that “unlimited” has a different meaning than the one widely accepted by the English-speaking world. And by the way, our interpretation saves us a whole bunch of money and means that the city has to pay a whole bunch more.

SH, SM, AF: we are collectively calling your bullshit!

VW: I am not going to answer any questions.

CWL: We will address this matter at another time due to time constraints.

Moving right along to the recycling portion of the agenda��

Phoenix Recycling guy: we are doing this on an individual basis but really want to do it citywide. Recycling has numerous civic, fiscal and environmental benefits and should be part of our post-Katrina efforts.

Citizens: Rah rah recycling! And why has the Sanitation director completely ruled it out?

VW: (says nothing, because she has left the meeting)

The End

By: Frolic

Frolic — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:31:38 +0000

I turned it on a few minutes ago, and someone was going through a power point presentation. Couldn’t bring myself to keep watching.

By: Civitch

Civitch — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:31:19 +0000

Watching now. It is absurdly fascinating, mainly because of short circuits in Veronica White’s brain that prevent her from understanding the distinction between “limited” and “unlimited,” and Stacy Head’s increasingly frustrated efforts to explain that to her.