Reputation is going to waste

COMMERCIAL waste collection and parking in Berwick Village has caused major obstacles to proper development of commerce and services.
Similar problems exist in other strip shopping centres throughout the municipality, but the pity of it all is that the situation tends to tarnish Berwick’s longheld reputation of being a beautiful and quaint village.
Lack of car parking can be the one major restriction to proper development of any shopping centre.
And garbage spilling from bins and left lying in the streets is an indictment on a community.
In Berwick’s case, a total lack of cooperation between Berwick Village Chamber of Commerce, business people and the City of Casey Council has led to mismanagement of commercial waste collection.
The council has failed to take control either because it can’t or doesn’t want to be bothered with the issue and its latest efforts to create a single collection service in the village appear set for hard times.
Garbage collection companies have been around the village signing people to longterm collection contracts in the face of a possible single collection service being implemented. This could lead many businesses into bother because the council, if it succeeds in establishing a service, will be forced to place severe restrictions on rogue collectors.
Similar activity sabotaged a previous attempt to develop an ordered collection service, but this time it is incumbent on the council to take full control of the situation in order to provide the best system available.
The council is faced with pressure to clean up the threat of physical danger and health risk to people now caused by the hotch potch of filthy bins around the place.
The situation is so bad that I can’t believe the occupational health and safety authority hasn’t stepped in.
The Berwick Village Chamber of Commerce has called on business people not to sign contracts because the council is now in the process of negotiating the appointment of a single contractor to develop a stateoftheart commercial waste collection service.
The simple fact of life is that an ordered society must have a leader.
A society must have proper administration that needs to give direction for the better of all, despite claims I am hearing about democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of trade. The City of Casey repeatedly claims to be a major leader among municipalities in Australia, which it is in most areas.
Of note is the battle against graffiti.
However, the council has been impotent over commercial waste collection and I have consistently aired this view.
Councils have a single garbage contractor to collect residential garbage.
I cannot believe that the same can’t be achieved for commercial waste.