Month: July 2013

Integrated Waste Management Plan Calls For Green Waste Containerization Plan

greenwaste

A few years ago one of the more controversial proposals was a green waste containerization plan.  While the city implemented a brief pilot plan at the time, ultimately, community dissent led to the city coming up with a compromise to keep green waste and tree trimmings out of the bike paths.

The city simply double-striped the bike paths with the hope that the trimmings would be confined outside of the paths on arterial roadways.

Eye on the Courts: Lessons Learned and a New Opportunity

VCWC-ScalesIn year four of the court watch program, we have made a number of changes. Perhaps the one most visible to the reader is that interns are now the ones primarily writing about the courts.  But that is not the only major change this year.

Beginning in April, we created the Vanguard Court Watch Council, a 12 member body that every fourth Sunday of the month holds public meetings.  In May, we met at the Davis library and provided what appears to be the only time that the family of Eli Davis has spoken in public about the April 2013 incident.