The district I represent consists of about 2/3 of the people of Woodland and less than 200 people in the Elkhorn area of Yolo County.
After meeting with the people in the unincorporated area of my district we decided to work together to pick up some of the trash that people have dumped along the roadways.
The picture associated with this post was taken less than two weeks ago on one of the rural roads near the Sacramento River. There are several places where "city folks" just dump their trash on the side of the road.
So I decide that we are going to clean up this stuff. I hate trash and it is something that needs to be handled. Perfect thing for a County Supervisor to do.
We are pretty close to getting everything worked out so that I can use my personal funds to get Waste Management to send out a dumpster and I can hire a couple people to pick this stuff up. In addition to the stuff you see here we have other spots with sofas, chairs, televisions, kids toys, TIRES and all kinds of other stuff. Things were all set for a great community clean up.
Then we came to tires. I was asked if the folks working with me were going to be hauling more than nine tires. Maybe. Depends how many we find. Could be five or fifty. We are going to pick as many up as we find and take them to the landfill.
Oh no we are not. Do you know that without a waiver you are not allowed to transport more than nine used tires? Yes, the people that could potentially be cleaning up Elkhorn would face fines of thousands of dollars if they happened to throw more than nine tires into the back of the Ford F-150 to dispose of at the landfill.
This is crazy. Here is the website for the California Waste Management Board — Waste Tire Enforcement Division.
We need a smaller and more efficient government in California. This is the kind of program that was probably started years ago after those tire fires. Despite that, there is no reason to require a permit from government to be able to move more than nine tires that are litter to the landfill for proper disposal.
If people are still looking for boxes to blow up this would by my first suggestion. Please don’t raise the taxes on millions of Californians to preserve this generally worthless part of state government.