Lawrence Twp. Council Meeting: Audio From Dec. 18
Listen to the full play-by-play as Lawrence Township residents protest the new “user fee” for bulk trash collection, question increased emergency medical service fees, and accuse the township of not being business friendly.
Available for listening from the media box to the right is full audio from the Dec. 18 Lawrence Township Council meeting. Also available are the meeting agenda, Township Manager Richard Krawczun’s explanatory pre-meeting memo, and copies of the four ordinances that were adopted at the meeting and four other ordinances that were introduced at the meeting. The subject of much of the discussion that took place during the four-hour-plus meeting was the ordinance creating a new user fee for bulk trash pickup. The ordinance – which allows township council to set the fee annually anywhere between 0 and $55 – was approved by all five township council members. Prior to the ordinance’s adoption, both during the general public participation period …
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Lynden Arden
9:52 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
I've listened to these recordings over the last few weeks on this subject and I have always found the council members to be rather straight forward and in command of the details of their business. I think some of the residents I have heard approach the situation with a rather naive or uniformed view of how complex the situation is. The visceral reaction to a $55 annual fee is a bit bizarre to me … more ›