Most citizens recycle through their waste collection agency. When those agencies were mandated to provide recycling services, they incurred new fees which were passed on to consumers. When their fees are reduced, their savings should be passed along to consumers in their quarterly bills.

Why not share some of the windfall with the homeowners who bring their recyclables to the landfill. This would be easy since you are being tracked by “big brother” each time you go to the landfill. This is why they scan your license. Come on Tari, share some of the crumbs from your feast you are having with your big donors. Just watch who benefits from the second sewer hookup fee reduction, the names will be very familiar. When do the rate payers get secret meetings to reduce what we pay? When will the rate payer get a no public hearing to fast track a resolution to lower our rates? Never!

If I was a councilperson and did not attend such an important informational tour, I would have kept my mouth shut so as not to expose my failure to do my job to its fullest. Granted the council position is not a full time job, but if you are not willing to do what is necessary to serve the people, then one should not seek the position or continue to represent the people of Cecil County.

Councilmen Mr. Hodge and Dr. McCarthy, agree with their positions or not, have to be respected since even though they have many business interests which occupy much of their time still managed to make the time to take the tour.

Mrs. Broomell wanted the definition of reporter and newspaper in her “comments” I video the council meetings and blog; there is an ongoing discussion within the media and legal circles as to what is a reporter and if bloggers have the same 1st Amendment right as does the “press” and thus the same legal protections. So, Mrs. Broomell is on thin ice with her challenge to define who is a reporter.