By: Joseph L. Kuchie
SOUTH AMBOY – Recent concerns raised from residents about the city’s garbage code sent South Amboy’s city council back to the drawing board at last week’s business meeting.
Despite already making numerous changes to the garbage codes over the past month, the council heard complaints from citizens about the 8:00 p.m. wait time to put their garbage to the curb. After speaking with Mayor Fred Henry, Council President Mickey Gross, and Law Director John Lanza, Business Administrator Camille Tooker suggested that the city change the time to 6:00 p.m.
“You may recall [at the last meeting] we had people saying the time to put it out was too late,” Tooker explained to the council. “[After discussion] we have no problem changing the time to maybe 6:00 p.m.”
One of the issues brought up by Lanza was daylights savings time. The main reason why citizens disliked the 8:00 p.m. take out time was because they had to bring their garbage out in the dark, and during the winter months it would still be dark at 6:00 p.m.
“What we can do is say 6:00 p.m. for daylights savings time and 5:00 p.m. for standard time,” Lanza said.
Councilman Tom Reilly noted that many residents in his zone wanted the time changed to around 6:00 p.m. The entire council agreed with the time change and Lanza added that he will likely make a new ordinance rather than amend it because of the numerous changes to the original.
All council members were in attendance for the business meeting. The next city council meeting will be Wednesday, June 17th at 7:00 p.m.
