Our libraries in the City of Mesa cannot stay open for a full week because of "budget issues". Our museums in the Cityof Mesa cannot stay open a full week because of "budget issues". Our freaking CITY HALL in the City of Mesa cannot stay open a full week because of budget issues. But someone made the call to have employees out before working hours (I suppose they got paid overtime for this special job too!) so they could tape a notice on the top of our garbage can (AND EVERY OTHER CAN FOR MILES) letting us know that we should place our can in the street so that foot traffic (yeah, we live on a cul-du-sac and there is NO foot traffic) can pass by? 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

 

Moron is not a strong enough word for the genius that thought of this plan. So there were city employees travelling thru Mesa in the dead of night armed with little signs and rolls of masking tape, moving garbage cans and taping signs on the lids. And they did this to every. single. can. whether it was already placed in the street or not. Oh and it gets better. Not only were they moving and taping, they were CHECKING EACH CAN TO SEE WHAT WAS INSIDE! How do I know this? Because the helpful employees on our street took one of our cans and moved it from the curb to the front yard so that the contents could NOT BE PICKED UP THIS MORNING. Why would someone do this? Because we had some DIRT in our can. They lifted up the top bag and saw dirt from another bag which had ripped as it was tossed in the can. So since we had loose dirt we got yet another notice taped to the top of our 2nd can (which we pay extra for) letting us know that construction debris is not allowed.