January 15, 2015
1902
To the Editor:
Re: No more "free" bag tags for Kincardine
I can’t even say what I think of this idea.
Politely, it sucks.
I’m wondering what we who live in the country get for our taxes? We have no plows clearing the way to our house because we don’t live on a street. The plowing stops at the end of our drive on Highway 21.
We have no streetlights because we live outside town.
The one thing we got was "free" bag tags. That was the only thing we got. Even that has been taken away from us. Seems to be one rule for those who live in town and another for the rest of us.
And speaking of the bag tags, are the ones that we have carefully hoarded over the years still going to be good or is the town going to spend many thousand of dollars and print new ones of another colour to take even that away from us?
How about putting the savings from no longer paying for PREDC (Penetangore Regional Economic Development Corporation), toward maintaining the "free" bag tags? That makes a lot more sense.
We are still burned about the loss of that one-and-only service we got. I’m sure that others who live outside town boundaries are miffed about the loss of those.
Mary Allen
Tiverton
Editor's note: According to a press release from the Municipality of Kincardine, effective Jan. 15, "tax-funded bag tags will be eliminated, with residents being able to continue to use any existing inventory of currently-accepted bag tags that they have on hand; and that the fee be set at $2/bag tag.
"Bag tags can be purchased at the Municipal Administration Centre, the Underwood satellite office or other retail outlets as listed on the municipal website at www.kincardine.net
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