New York, NY – Nonprofit groups, already hobbled by cuts in government funds and donations, say a city plan to charge them for trash pick-up belongs in the dumpster.
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Colleges, churches, museums, Jewish centers and other organizations are being surveyed by the city Department of Sanitation to try and determine how much trash they generate.
“This amounts to a service cut,” said Michael Stoller, executive director of the Human Services Council, a coalition of nonprofit groups. “Donations could help make it up but philanthropists want to help kids and seniors. They don’t want to pay for a garbage tax.”
The Sanitation Department announced last year it was examining a plan to charge groups in buildings that receive a property tax exemption for nonprofit use a service fee for trash collection.
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The public pays for it now with higher collection prices. Let them pay. Do they get free electricity, water, Internet? If the Sanitation Dept. is looking into it, they will likely raise our prices if they don’t collect from the freeloaders.
this is our elitist mayor caring about the poor
All the city wants is $$$$$!!
Let City Hall pay for the same service
Watch out guys soon they are Going to charge for breathing so everybody go on a diet they will charge you how much you breath depending on your size
Non profits have nothing to do with the poor. Anybody check out their payrolls? Let them pay for garbage collection like anyone else.