I am noticing that the City did not include the College Glenn Neighborhood Association http://www.collegeglen.org/ in their meeting line-up. These residents also enjoy the city's loose leaf street pickup services and are interested in changes to their city services. Is there a plan to organize a session with the College Glenn Neighborhood Association as well? Personally, I am an advocate for the loose leaf curbside services to continue to be provided as many homes within the city boundary (1) have more green waste than most with large, mature trees/shrubs, (2) don't have room in their side/back yards for multiple cans with their small city plots, and (3) are elderly and don't have the physical ability to pull these heavy cans back and forth to the curb or lift their yard debris into the container yet they enjoy doing their own yard work. I find the cans to be unsightly and have no interest in making the necessary modifications to store a row of them on my small city property. Furthermore, I am concerned that minimizing our current paid city services with promises to allow periodic loose curb pickups may result in a withdrawal of these curb pickups later to save further city expenses yet our fees will be based on the promised services. City government has grown and has made costly efforts toward growth during a recession period that some could argue have been wasteful and counter to the general publics opinion. For the reasons stated above, repealing Measure A, the 1977 voter-approved initiative that prevents the city from requiring residents to use containers, does not appear to be the answer. I have not heard the city make an argument that the 'claw' street pickup program is not paying for itself but I have heard that the city is interested in doubling or tripling the fees residents currently pay for this service. I would like the city to be prepared during the neighborhood meetings to provide an actual cost accounting of the existing program as well as their projections. Residents have a right to know how their money is being spent and how our city government may be profiting from it. I suspect that the city, with their existing budget reductions, benefits from the fees paid for the services provided and is searching for methods to increase their coffers by reducing our services and, in doing so, their costs. I for one am no longer interested in continuing to accept a model where public decisions are based on limited information and trusting compliance rather than supporting data and informed voters.