I’m writing concerning the Parkersburg City Council’s Public Works Committee on the trash can measure.

Now Parkersburg City Council wants to vote and tell you about your trash cans being at the curb before the trash goes and after the trash goes that you have a certain time to get your cans away from the curb.

I don’t have a problem with them voting on the ordinance but it’s another thing for the city council to tell a homeowner they have to get their trash can away from the curb.

I see several Parkersburg city dumpsters full and trash around it and they’re telling the city that they need to pick up their cans from the curb.

Yes, they don’t look good sitting at the curb with trash in them or blowing down the street.

But what about the trash dumpsters from the city of Parkersburg over flowing?

So if I have to take my can from the curb after the trash goes and the trashmen leave trash in the road and where the cans were sitting after they dump them and throw the cans back in the yard are they going to come back and pick up after themselves?

I was a sanitation worker for 10 years and I know how they work.

You’re out there in downpour rain, snow, 90 degree temperatures and the only thing you want to do is get done and get a shower and you’re not worried about trash that fell out of the can.

You just want to get off work and go home.

Back when I worked for the Sanitation Department, Mayor Newell told Parkersburg City Council anything that goes to the curb is city property.

But when the trashman doesn’t get all the trash, the city of Parkersburg doesn’t want any part of that.

It’s your responsibility to get it picked up or let it blow down or up the road into someone’s yard.

Parkersburg City Council wants to make up rules and ordinances but they don’t want to stick to their part of the deal.

If the ordinance goes through and the citizens need to get their cans from the curb, the city of Parkersburg needs to get up out of your chairs and do your part to make Parkersburg shine again.

Parkersburg City Council needs to stop trying to make up new ordinances and work together to bring shopping, civic center, and other money-making services to Parkersburg.

That’s not only helping the city with taxes, it will bring more jobs.

John D. McIntyre

Parkersburg