At Tuesday night's Altadena Coalition of Neighborhood Associations (ACONA) meeting, representatives of Altadena's new trash service franchise took audience questions and updated residents on the contract.
Tuesday night’s Altadena Coalition of Neighborhood Associations (ACONA) meeting included discussion on two topics that previous attendees voted for on an online survey put together by ACONA’s co-founder, Elliot Gold. The goal of ACONA, Gold said at the beginning of the meeting, is to “make Altadena the best neighborhood in LA County.” The first was an update on Altadena’s new uniform trash collection service by officials and representatives from LA County and Athens Services since that company began trash and recycling pickup Sept. 5. The second, which you can read about here, had officials from the Altadena Sheriff’s station and a co-founder of a Neighborhood Watch in east Altadena speaking about how residents can start their own Watch or…
The Valley Sun looks at the difference in prices between the free-market trash system in La Cañada Flintridge and the new public Athens Service contract in Altadena.
Altadena residents may have good reason to be happy with their new mandated public trash contract: Athens customers in La Cañada Flintridge are paying almost $40 more per month for the same service, according to the La Cañada Valley Sun. The article pegs Altadena's three-can trash service at around $54, compared to $91 in La Cañada. Residents of that town can also get service for $89 with Allied, another garbage company. Altadena transitioned earlier this month from a similar free-market choice system to a mandated county contract with Athens. The main justification for the switch was to save residents money. An Athens spokesman told the Valley Sun that while there are many factors that explain the differences in billing, the main …
Deciphering how to use Athens new green trash bin might require a tape measure and a botanical degree, but at least you can get it explained to you in 175 languages. The new contract starts on September 1.
I’ve been busy, out of pocket this week. You see, I just got my welcome kit from Athens Services, our new trash collection service, and, well, turns out garbage is far more complicated than I ever knew. Our end of the disposal bargain requires precision, diagrams, and [cough] math. So I’ve been burning the midnight oil, pouring over the Athens New Service Guide, the Valued Customer letter, and my Customer Bill of Rights. (I do this so you don’t have to.) They tuck some strict warnings in amongst the softer, gentler instructions. Bottom line, if they don’t like how we throw away what we throw away, then we can just do a little dumpster diving and take our tape-measure with us. Like any three-panel, two-sided brochure worth its salt, …
Cindy Moore
12:05 am on Friday, November 4, 2011
Thor Schmidt General Manager for Athens does not look very smart, it almost looks like someone else has written his speech for him and he is just reading it line by line. When you ask him a question he has this dumb face for good 20 seconds until he answers you with a question. He can't even run a ice cream store, but Athens trusted this guy with General Manager ??? more ›