“I wish wish wish Ridgewood would be honest about the leaves. I know of some towns in some states that charge for picking up leaves. You call the town and they come and pick up your leaves after you put them out on the curb/street. Nominal fee. They come right away and all is efficient and clean.
Ridgewood is erratic and inefficient and not dependable about leaf pick-up. What they are efficient about to the hilt is issuing a summons.
RIDGEWOOD CHARGES FOR LEAF PICK-UP by issuing summonses. They look for minor infringements. THEY SHOULD BE HONEST HONEST and just charge a nominal fee, for those who want leaves picked up. If a leaf pickup is going to be on a Tuesday, for example, and people do leaves on the weekend because they work all week , and put then out on Sunday, they will get a summons. Now is that right? is that fair?
( I never received a summons, so don’t go thinking I am complaining, my dear friends. In order to avoid a summons I put leaves out NEAR THE LAST DAY they are supposed to pick them up according to the card they send out. NOT BEFORE).
BTW I am a 76 year old female who rakes the leaves myself, mulches some, puts some, not much out, (see above) and leaves some leaves for nature. I do not use a gas leaf blower. I have probably one of the most tree filled yards in town because my neighbor lets weed trees grow on his property which borders my house. He is a landlord of th rented house and will not cut down the weed trees. By weed I mean trees too close together. As if you never had a lawn, only trees. Plus I have my own trees; that I am happy to do.”
“Reader Wants Pay for Leave Pick Up”
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Yeah, great idea…
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We pay massive taxes.
The town can’t efficiently manage the money and is unable to provide quality services.
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So…
Lets pay some more money to the town to do the job we already paid them to do which they were unable to do.
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Brilliant idea.
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BTW, are you a Ridgewood school graduate??
Just curious.
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Why do people even think there is a problem? I have been doing this for 50+ years here. Newsflash, we have a lot of big trees and a lot of fall leaves. Put them on your curb. The town comes by and picks them up.
Nuts!
Hey douch bag here’s an idea. I’ll gladly pay for my leaves, but I won’t pay for your kids in school. I never had any in the schools so why should I pay for yours?
Burn them like I do.
This individual smoking believes stop dreaming.
“Hey douch bag here’s an idea. I’ll gladly pay for my leaves, but I won’t pay for your kids in school. I never had any in the schools so why should I pay for yours?”
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With a mouth like that, we all want to thank you for not reproducing…
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Last year my leaves were put on the curb, day before pickup. Pick up from DPW was not done on day scheduled. Leaves were on curb 4 two weeks before DPW picked them up. Although I complied with their schedule, they did not and some idiot from DPW drove around on a Sunday and issued summons to the tune of $85.00. I am 79 yo and handicapped, lived in the Village for over 50 yrs. Pay my high taxes early and this is the way they treat residents? Now, I have my landscaper suck up my leaves and pay them extra because Ridgewood DPW fails to pick up leaves when scheduled. Their work ethics are abhorrent!!! One other, when u call the person sending you the summons they are not there as they are only in the office 3 days a week and you are lucky when you call on their work day they answer the phone – no it’s always “am not available leave a message “. MAYOR can’t you do something DRASTIC about this?