Trash ordinance to be suspended?

Posted on February 16, 2018

Faced with blunt criticism that at times veered toward outright derision, the Perry City Council is moving to suspend an amended ordinance that prohibited the disposal of trash classed as “white goods” (i.e. appliances, furniture, mattresses, etc.) in city-of-ways.

A standing-room-only crowd, predominately from the city’s African- American community, assailed the council at its regular meeting Tuesday with complaints about a newly-amended ordinance that did away with the city’s longtime practice of collecting discarded “white goods.”

PHOTO: Concerned citizens filled every chair in the Perry City Council meeting room Tuesday night. The majority were there to express opposition to an amended ordinance that effectively halted the city’s practice of collecting “white goods” (i.e. used appliances, furniture, etc.) from local right-of-ways and hauling the items to the landfill for residents, as well as a defunct proposal to station a mobile, once-a-month collection site at Loughridge Park.

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