Henley said council did not repeal the emergency ordinances and they still remain on the books. He also said residents will not have to formally apply for a variance to allow those with large semi-cab trucks to park behind their homes off the rear alleys.
“This will allow things to go back to the way it was,” Henley said. “Everybody’s happy and smiling. No one is mad and everything is cool.”
Richard White, a Morris Avenue resident, attended Thursday’s meeting and said council agreed to leave it up to the street commissioner, and that Lakes said it was OK with him. He said residents were happy with council’s decision to leave the matter up to Lakes, but would be following up to make sure Rumpke would be picking up trash from the rear alley on Dec. 26, the next trash day in the village.
He said that Lakes would notify Rumpke to resume trash pickup from the village’s rear alleys and that as of midday Friday, that was still pending.
On Dec. 7, Lakes sent out a notice to residents saying rear alley trash pickup would resume, but residents were surprised the following week that Rumpke was still picking up trash from the front curb. In a two-sentence notice, Lakes said the reconsideration was in deference to the village’s elderly and handicapped residents.
Mayor Patti Hanes said at the time, Lakes had “no reason” to send out such notices and that council could make that decision and would revisit the issue at its Dec. 20 meeting.
More than 30 residents expressed their opposition to the ordinances during a raucous Dec. 6 meeting.
The ordinances angered many of the residents who have had Rumpke trucks come through the alleys to pick up trash for decades. A few weeks ago, the village asked residents to take their trash out to the front curb while the alley behind Morris Avenue was repaved. Many residents thought this to be a temporary change, however council members, at the recommendation of the village engineer, opted to make the change permanent to extend the life of the newly-paved alleys.
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