$1.8M surplus. 12.5% tax increase.  Try and take bag tags away.

Because we pay taxes!!!!!!

Believe me these are not FREE when our  taxes have gone up by 12 1/2 %

 Should be 52 free tags as before. Who  wants to hold onto diapers for two  weeks in the summer. It's just another  tax to young families to go along with  all the recreation/service user fees  and school fundraising expenditures.

For many of us who pay  taxes this is a minor break on our  expenses.

Should go back to 52

since when are they  free I am sure we pay for it in our  taxes!!!!

axes are too high  garbage should be included in taxes/

the tags are included  in our taxes already so and if you  take away the tags people will just  through their garbage along the side  of the roads and that will cost us  even more so please give us the tags

Click here and enter 400 characters or  less (optional)They are not free but  they help prevent garbage left in the  ditches on the roads around Kincardine.

This should be a total  user pay system. There should be NO  free bag tags.!!!

We all know that they  are not free but if we have to pay  for all of them then that's just a  tax increase.

With the new* dump* so  far away  it will lesson debris in  the fields around us if citizens don't  have to pay for the entire year for  garbage

yes as long as everyone  gets the free bag tags . i have lived  in the area and never have i recieved  any free bag tags 

Our taxes are so highthey should cover 52  free tags as previous.

Cutting the bag tags in half is just  another *Money Grab* to top up the  already surplus(reserves)!

CWe want at least 26 .52 wouildbe  better.It would help keep garbage off  roadsides.

garbage production should be discouraged. Offering  free tags and or eliminating the program does not  deter people from making poor choices. With careful  purchasing composting and recycling there is very  little to throw out as garbage. Raise the bag tag cost!

Huron Kinlos does not get them so why  should Kincardine. People should have  to pay for garbage it may make them  recyle and compost more.

I am not sure why we do not still receive 52 bag tags.  Especially after our taxes have increased by 12.5 %   while we had a significant surplus of monies (I gather  which none of the Council knew about. Give us back  our 52 tags!

I believe there are alot of families in  Kincardine that cant afford to spend  that extra 23$ a week or more to put  their garbage out. My family always  gives the tags to others that need it  as we rarely have a bag to put out.

I think they should actually issue 52  tags a year. People should be  encouraged to keep the community tidy.  We pay our taxes for services. If the  Council can't provide them  why do we  support them?

I THINK WE SHOULD GO BACK TO 1 BAG TAG  FOR EACH WEEK GIVEN TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD  AND FOR HOUSEHOLDS NOT RECYCLING NONE  SHOULD BE PROVIDED. EASY IN MY  SUBDIVISION COLLECTIONS ON SAME DAY.

If the municipality wants people to  recycle more they should be going after  the retail outlets and apartment  buildings that use dumpsters for  everything including recycling

If they start charging you can guarantee you will find  garbage bags left at the roadside.

If this council can spend spend &  spend somemore and expect ward 3 to  pay pay &pay some more then we had  better get someting for our tax  dollars. Sheila

Include one bag a week in our taxes  no tag required buy tags for extra  bags

Isn't that what taxes are for? 26 free tags are not too much to ask  the municipality to provide. Tax payers should get a break once in a  while.

It is unacceptable that a Dept Head did not raise this issue when taxes were being raised 12% not withstanding the fact that $2M was found laying around. Perhaps if Council heeded the advice of Staff and used less costly approaches  e.g. ice making this would not come up ... incidentally was there an ethics issue involved in the participants in the vote ...

it*s the very least they can give us.  For what we pay in taxes and the few  service we get. No cleanup week in  the spring no bus service no major  retail shopping......

Landfill space is a valuable resource and promoting free garbage disposal is misleading.

Let's not pretend ~ nothing is free.  I get no good feeling whatsoever from  holding those 26 bag tags in my hand!!

More over they should go back to 52

Ofcourse.........to compensate for the  hours some workers spend cutting the  grass at baseball diamond driving  around aimlessly in too many town  trucks and for the wastage of  electricity lighting the diamonds when  no one is playing.

One free tag for every week should be  better.

Otherwise we will start finding  garbage all over the area

Our taxes went up and now they want us  to pay for bag tags?

Surrounding municipalities pay per tag should be a  user pay system. Nothing is ever free!

The bag tags aren't FREE they are  included in our taxes.

the bags we recieve are not free..our  taxes pay for them.

The least they could do.....somehow  they found a few bucks....

The tags are not free. We pay for them  with our prperty taxes. Instead of issuing bag tags why not  issue 26 bio degradeable garbage bags.  Of course that would require out of  the box thinking which is in short  supply..

They aren't *free* if you are paying property taxes. I just don't get why people keep calling them *free*.

They aren't free. If people spend the money at the store themselves they will be forced to think about the garbage they are throwing out and the money they are throwing away with it.

They just raised out taxes 12% I  think we are intitled to 26 bag tags  afterall its half of 2010 tags as it  is!!

They should actually go back to issuing  52 bag tags like they use to. We are already taxed enough.

They should be issuing 52! The cost  was initially transferred to the tax  bill then they took away half without  the tax bill going down. Dirty bit of  cheating!

They should issue 52 tags per year.

To discontinue the 26 *Fee* Bag tags is just another form of taxation. I think last years sharp rise was enough! We are a single income family.

We already pay for disposal in our  taxes. For people who wisely choose  to recycle they should be rewarded.  If you need more than 1 bag tag per  week then your not doing your part and  should have to pay the small price  after you use up your freebies.

We already pay for disposal service on  our property taxes. If cuts need to  be made they should not bemade on  basic essentials. There are lots of  social non essentials where cuts  should apply.

We find that 26 bag tags are sufficient for our household of two adults  however we do compost and recycle everything possible.

We have never managed to use all 26 in a year. Those who abuse the system should be the ones who pay!

We need to see something tangible for  our taxes

We pay enough for taxes now without  having to fork out an extra $52.00 for  these 26 tags. It would be nice if it  went back to the old system of  52 *free* tags each year. We pay  enough for taxes now without having to  pay for the garbage disposal on top of  everything else.

We pay enough tax and removal would be  a double tax.

We pay high enough taxes to allow for  26 *free* bag tags per year!

We should be allowed 52 tags they raised our taxes 12.5%. Most towns include 4 bags/wk included in taxes. We should have large item pick up TVs etc should be free (we pay eco tax) Ripley & Saugeen do not charge extra. The Town manage should not try to alter revenue streams

We should pay for each and every bag  of garbage we generate

Whether a cost saving or not the tags  should continue  people need  SOMETHING tangable for their taxes and  other communities seem to provide a  lot more than Kincardine for equal or  less taxes.

With the amount of taxes we pay and  our councillors waste we should have  52 free bag tags.

Without free tags we will find more  household garbage in the barrels  designated for other use.

Yes and I think we shoudl do curb side  compost

Yes they should contiune as the raised  taxes in the spring and then found a  surplus in the fall .what else do we  really get in our hand to show for the  taxes we pay .

Yes they should. If they really want  to reduce the use of our landfills  than they should increase the waste  services in our municipality. Where  are the Green Bins? Why doesn't our  recycling program resemble that of  other municipalities that take alot  more items in the Blue Boxes? Another  fine example of our Council and  Municipal Leaders not doing a complete  job.