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DEL.ICIO.USIs Sandy Springs cheap or thrifty?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Last week Take to Task asked whether anybody found it weird that Sandy Springs keeps trash bags taped to the MARTA bus stop poles. And it learned that the city reads Take to Task.
Mayor Eva Galambos responded with an e-mail reminding Take to Task that the new city deployed the trash bags shortly after the city began operation. The reason: No trash cans at most bus stops.
“To prevent litter, we decided that plastic trash bags would do the job until we could install trash cans. We are thrilled that once again Sandy Springs is exhibiting public/private initiative to solve the problem,” Galambos wrote. “Newell Rubbermaid is donating 170 trash cans for all the stops, which the city will install. This should happen shortly,” the mayor wrote.
The answer might lead to another question. The notion of tacking trash bags onto the bus stops might strike some as silly, but it’s also absolutely a frugal solution to a problem that nobody else had addressed. And it bought the city time to find a cost-effective way of getting permanent trash cans at the bus stops.
The question we’re wondering today: How do you rate Sandy Springs on its spending. Is the city frugal and thrifty, and are residents getting good stewardship of their tax dollars. Your thoughts?
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