I live in a municipality, so this won’t affect me. But given the total breakdown of law and order and horrible decaying of the housing stock in unincorporated north county, it seems to me that Mr. Dooley and the Council could find something more important on which to spend their time. This is about money and power, and NOT about spending the county’s resources on what is most important for the residents.

Nick, you are oh so right…this is about Charlie Dooley and his campaign contributors (Allied Waste and many of their sr. staff are very large contributors); it is about growing the size and influence of county government; it is also about those big haulers like Waste Management and Allied Waste wanting to put the small haulers in the county out of business; and lastly, its about political payback as John Temporetti, who is the former chief of staff to Charlie Dooley, now happens to be General Counsel for Allied Waste, and he is looking to use Dooley and the Democrat controlled council to pay back Dooleys contributor’s with big lucrative trash district contracts. Barbara Fraser, a generally nice woman, is having the wool pulled over her head if she thinks this has anything to do with recycling. And poor Mike O’Mara, and several South County state legislative Democrats, who are up for re-election this year, will pay for Dooleys Folly with strong anti-incumbent with anti-trash district voters this August and November….Bye bye Mike, it was good to know ya.