Where There Once Was A Dumpster Paid For By Galvan...

This is what Galvan and their tenants are offering DPW's garbage crew tomorrow for pick up and removal behind 227-235 State Street.  Of course, more blue bags will be torn into by vermin and more food and waste will be strewn around overnight for DPW to deal with.  If DPW removes all the blue bags, they will have a splendid time trying to get the contents still remaining in the open-on-top and torn-on-bottom-and-sides bags to the garbage truck hopper.  I may try to go watch and document.

When I took these pictures, the stench of rotting food and who knows what else was overwhelming, with flies feasting everywhere.  No doubt there were maggots - it sure smelled like there should have been.

Welcome to Hudson, the land of WTF?

Chapter 260-5 of the Hudson city code states:  Any such [blue] bag shall be sufficiently strong to contain the materials enclosed...When filled, each such bag shall be securely tied and weigh no more than 30 pounds... Refuse shall be placed for collection by the DPW at or near a curb, sidewalk, alley or street after 7 pm on the day before that designation for collection.  

For at least three reasons/violations, our DPW should not be touching Galvan's tenants' blue bags on the ground behind 227-235 State.  This is plainly obvious.  The bags are regularly open on top, regularly torn into by vermin and spilled all over, and regularly placed out for collection every day of the week.  Placing garbage in a dumpster any day of the week is fine, but leaving blue bags on the ground any and every day of the week is not fucking acceptable in the real world where people want to respect one another and not contract a possibly fatal disease spread by rats.

Section 14 of the chapter states the following:  Any person who commits a violation of this article shall be punished as follows:  by a prison term not exceeding 15 days or by a fine not exceeding $250, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Strangely, there is nothing written in the code regarding what DPW is to do when they come across blue bags torn into by vermin or spilled due to an unsecured and wide-open bag that has or hasn't fallen over.

Since Galvan's tenants keep putting out the blue bags all days of the week and DPW takes them away every Tuesday without hesitation regardless of the difficulty or stench, I guess Robert Perry and Craig Haigh are fine with this arrangement that is a serious quality-of-life issue, probable health hazard (attracting vermin, including rats) and replete with code violations worthy of imprisonment.  Above all indignities, Mr. Perry is expecting his garbage crew to remove those bags every Tuesday no matter what.  "Code violations?  What am I, the Code Enforcement Superintendent, too?" asks our DPW Superintendent.

Imagine if at every stop along the garbage crew's route every Monday and Tuesday they were greeted with an identical situation of open and torn open blue bags and litter strewn all over?  Isn't this why we have a code, so that not even one person or organization can do something that if everyone did it the whole goddamned city would be unlivable?  The idea behind a code is that we all comply with each word of it, without exceptions, not even for the city's largest property owner or the mayor's landlord.

Galvan and City Hall are a match made in
heaven.  They both think this is just wonderful
and a fine example to set for the world and every
Hudson resident and child.

It is becoming more and more apparent to me that much of Hudson City Hall simply does not know what it is doing or has given up on caring about the city's host of problems.  Just follow your nose to Long Alley behind 227-235 State Street and you will smell what I am referring to.  The rot there that will offend your eyes, nose and spirit is not just coming from Galvan -- it's coming from City Hall as well.  Maybe you will see a rat or five while you are there.

This is beyond ridiculous and is nothing to be amused by.  We should all be concerned that this is still happening nine months after Galvan got rid of the garbage dumpster for their tenants and that this is nowhere on Craig Haigh's or Robert Perry's radar.  What do we pay them to do if not to prevent an obscenity like this that is conspicuously present day after day and week after week?  One wonders if the two can even stand being in the same room with one another.  It wouldn't surprise me if they refuse to speak to one another even on the phone.  

Robert Perry's salary is twice that of Craig Haigh's.  If Robert doesn't care about Galvan's trash mess violation insult health hazard on the ground next to Long Alley, why should we expect Craig to?