Letters to the Editor Aug. 31

When my wife and I moved here from California five years ago, we were thrilled at the lower living costs in Carson City. The garbage rates were about half of what we had been paying, and it was very inexpensive to use the landfill.

Now the city wants to stop offering a service to the citizens by hiring a California company to run the landfill. This will, in essence, be a tax increase, because garbage collection rates will go up for everyone.

The city is planning to double the fee to people who haul their refuse to the Carson City Landfill as well.

Hey city council, how about leaving something that works alone and continue to offer the citizens a municipal bargain.

Robert Stansbury

Carson City

In an effort to improve traffic safety by preventing both left and right turns off of East Washington Street onto Roop Street, Carson City Transportation installed a traffic revision at that intersection. Since its installation some months ago, it continues to be a cause of confusion, frustration and downright danger to vehicular traffic.

As my office is located on the southwest corner of this intersection across from the library, I have witnessed some bizarre occurrences as a result of this revision that are beyond passenger cars and small trucks.

I have watched police cars jump the cement lane closure strip in order to avoid traveling the wrong way on the westbound lane. I have watched fire trucks and other emergency vehicles drive the wrong way on the westbound lane, and then make a left turn onto Roop. I have watched semis get boxed in by cars coming in behind them to enter the library parking lot while westbound traffic is coming off of Roop.

Our parking lot, as well as the library parking lot, have become the drive through, turn-around point for all those vehicles which find themselves at the end of what now has become a dead-end street.

If you have ever been inconvenienced, or worse yet, endangered by this traffic revision, may I suggest you let Carson City Transportation know? You can call them at 283-7396.

Joan E. Reid

Carson City

I am a parent of children who have attended school in the Carson City School District for the last 17 years. I have to say that Monday's registration at Carson High was one of the most unprofessionally run events that I have ever been to in the last 17 years.

When asked why parents were asked to come to the registration and then were left to stand in a line for 2-1/2 to 3 hours, Mr. Beck said, (it) was the only day that the school had to do registration and student ID photos (because) all staff would be in professional development and meetings for the rest of the week.

Why does this school district not hold professional development days during the summer? I talked to many parents today who had taken off work to be there as requested by the e-mail and phone call that was sent out Aug. 10, which gave the impression that parents would be there about an hour to an hour-and-a-half, and after almost three hours just in line, were trying to call their employers to deal with being late for work, and listened to kids calling their employers to tell them that they would be late.

Anytime you have more that 1,000 people coming into one point, the administration should have planned for all contingencies including computers that didn't work.

Christine Carter

Carson City