Dearborn Extends Yard Waste Pickup Nov.30-Dec.4
Just a friendly reminder: Nov. 30-Dec. 4 is the final week for curbside collection of yard waste.
What this means is that if your neighborhood still has leaves sitting in piles at the curb at week’s end, you’ll have a choice to make: leave the mess at the curb and hope city crews pick them up (a service that also ends Dec. 4) or get busy bagging leaves to have them ready on the day of your regularly scheduled trash pickup.
Dec. 4 is the final day for leaf pickup in Dearborn. The week of Nov.30-Dec.4 is the final week for yard waste pickup.
Otherwise, they will remain at the curb or in yard bags alongside your garage until the Spring because crews will stop picking up yard waste after next week.
A Dearborn spokesperson says the city is trying to avoid overtime pay for crews, which is part of the reason leaves remain curbside in so many neighborhoods. The deadline week of Nov. 30- Dec. 4 for bagging yard waste is actually a week extension from previous years.
Let’s just hope we don’t get snow before then. Otherwise, snowplows will be pushing those leaves back onto the lawns of many a homeowner for a real sloppy mess.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Why is it that some streets have had 3 pickups and others none? We were told that we could rake the leaves into the street just before our pickup which many of us did. My street still has yet to have any pick up this year–ever! Nice comment about the overtime–I saw crews working off Outer Drive and Alice area (west of Outer Drive) last Saturday, so I guess only some people are worthy of overtime service. What about those of us who still have yet to have any pick up at all, Mr. Mayor?
November 27th, 2009 at 11:44 am
The crews have worked the last 2 Saturdays. Clevelend, Columbia, Oxford and some of the other streets were done on Wednesday. I’ll would have to imagine that his office is sick of hearing all our complaints – to bad.
November 27th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Hey this is quite a perk for living in Dearborn- If I had to bag all the leaves I raked up-I’d still be bagging— they’ll get it done
November 27th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Blame the erratic pick-ups on O’Reilly. The workers even said, he constantly is changing the locations for the upcoming days. Basically whoever squacks the loudest or are his boys, get taken first. He already won his election, so he don’t care anymore. Wake up big guy we all pay taxes.
November 28th, 2009 at 9:00 am
sm, I wouldn’t be pissed if they hadn’t told us to rake the leaves into the street. I used to bag them. Some perk, if they tell you to do it, and you’re one of the few blocks in the city whose leaves don’t get picked up! This kind of crap has got to stop, though, especially when I talk to some folks who live 2 blocks from me and who have had 3 pickups and my block has had none! What kind of service is that? I am guessing that if this happened to you, you wouldn’t be very happy, either. Hussein, I have heard similar complaints about the illustrious mayor. I can’t ever remember the process being this screwed up, so I tend to believe what I am hearing…You are absolutely right–guess I will call and bitch next week, cause we are out of time.
November 30th, 2009 at 11:01 am
We’ve had leaves in the street for over a month. What happened to them picking up more than once? So, if they don’t make it down our block, then we have to bag them? I’ve got an idea. Bag them and dump them on the curb at City Hall. I’m sure they’d get picked up then.
November 30th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
All I can say is that we were told to have our leaves on the street for pick-up on our “Public Service Day” and that is a JOKE!!! Trash was picked up and nothing else happened until three in the afternoon the next day, when all the cars are parked on the stree again, then the city cam with HUGE trucks to clean up the leaves and could not get to the mounds of them along the curbs where cars were now parked and then the street looks a mess. Thanks for nothing.
November 30th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
O’Reilly seems to love to stick his nose into EVERYTHING!!! If you ever drive by his own house, you would completely understand the mess in the streets and along Michigan Avenue. It’s obivous that curb appeal is not a priority. It is embarassing that our own Mayor does not keep the outside of his home up. It is just wrong. Regarding baggging, we don’t mind bagging our own leavesm,m and in fact, we do bag most of them. In fact next year I think we will do all and forget this mess. Surely, this will take up most of the discussion at the Council meeting. Ridiculous.
November 30th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I did not vote for any of them! This city needed someone to shake things up but voted for the same ol–same ol! Just live with it! My $7,000.00 tax payment hard at work!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:23 pm
The Mayor’s front yard tells it all. Sloppy just like him. If he doesn’t care why should we. His wife could help make it look better too, however, she insists on wearing those goofy hats for their annual fashion show. You reprsent Dearborn,why not live up to the previous Mayors and first ladies. Please clean up the front of your house.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Hard to keep quiet after reading stupid people bitching about the Mayor, his House, and now His Wife. Maybe if the Mayor wasn’t working 24/7 he would have time to spend more time on his house, or better yet maybe if he was like all the past polititions he would have the City’s crew or use the City’s money to do it for him. Even better, maybe he should use the money He saves the City by driving a City car he got cheaper and uses no driver on the bullshit you people keep bitching about! His house isn’t looking as bad as You say, Why don’t you be a good neighbor and clean it up yourself!
Rick your such an ASS.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Rick – shame on you. Personal attacks on the Mayor and his family. Really? His house looks like a pleasant home. He isn’t wasting tax payer money for things like a driver, filling his pool with City water, and all of the other “Perks” that the former mayor had. I don’t agree with some of what he is doing or not doing, but stick to the things that really matter and leave all the nonsense that you mentioned out of it.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Candyman…we all work 24/7 and still manage to keep our houses up, so that excuse does not hold water. And you really lose all credibility when your arguement includes what the past administration did. That has nothing to do with what is going on now. Remember, too, that Mayor O’Reilly was Council President O’Reilly during the Guido years. Cloe….the Mayor’s house does not look pleasant, not at all. He is a neighbor of mine and I find it very embarassing..in fact many of the homes on Beech are not well kept. There is no excuse for that. But he is the Mayor!!! Lead by example, maybe??