DEAR Editor;
This is an old story and nothing gets done about, so this is just me venting because that’s all that this will accomplish.
No one cares anymore.
I have lived at my property for more than 17 years and I have had this problem all these years.
Today was the final straw when the ‘workers’ laughed at being asked to clean their mess.
This is one of many, many bad verge cuttings, when it is actually done, and for a while now it has been by the same company.
With each cutting it seems to get worse.
Not only is grass not cut short enough, but a mess is left everywhere, which then has to get swept up by me.
The curb is overgrown, with weeds growing out of them.
This time they did they not cut the verges properly, even missing some properties.
Piles of cut grass have been left behind.
I asked the workers to clean the mess: the truck driver said he is not doing anything.
The workers just laughed, saying they’re “not municipality, they’re a private tender” and drove away leaving piles behind.
I said I was going to report them and they just laughed all the more.
One is left feeling that they think nothing will be done, and these days, I’m inclined to think they are probably right.
I would now rather cut my own verge, as many of my neighbours already do.
Perhaps the hope is if they do bad jobs often enough, most of us will cut our own verges, and then they can get tenders to do nothing!
And I’m not even talking about rubbish on verges that seemingly never gets picked up.
I actually pick up on my verge and my surrounding neighbours properties or it looks disgusting.
I could hire a worker twice a week to cut the verge, and the job would be far better.
I am billed rates every month, regardless of whether I can afford it due to the virus, economy etc.
It would be way cheaper to have a worker do verges, dump my rubbish bin bags and fix the road’s potholes – even though reported to council, the councillor is still waiting years later for it to be fixed.
No doubt, I will end up fixing that too.
But, I must pay rates? For what?
SERIOUSLY FED UP
Margate
RESPONSE
The municipality is always striving to provide services to the satisfaction of the end user/citizens.
The relevant department will therefore investigate the matter with an aim to ensure that the contractor performs according to agreed terms of the contract.
SIMON APRIL
Ray Nkonyeni Municipality spokesman
HAVE YOUR SAY
Like the South Coast Herald’s Facebook page, follow us on Twitter and Instagram
