Since june this year, the city department of cebu, anhui province, has imposed a charge on city life by binding water charges. Dissatisfaction has been caused by the handling fees and the collection of garbage cleaning fees by small-area properties。
How is the $6 garbage disposal fee in the district turned into “tang monks” and provoked competition from local authorities? A recent interview with xinhua's “shinhua vision point” journalist。
Water tied to garbage, no contributions? Stop your water
The water used by the population is not in line with the payment of garbage, but it is tied up in cedar. Zhang xiao fei, a resident of the northern district of cebu city, has been suspended twice since june this year by the local water company because of unpaid garbage charges。
Zhang xiao fei told journalists that in june this year, the water services company suddenly added a “disposal fee” to its bill, and that the cost in june was $3. 00, rising to $6 in july and collecting it once a month. Dissatisfied with the new basis and method of collection, he refused to charge the fee by the water company in august and soon stopped his house。
Zhang xiao fei was forced to pay the fee. But by october, he again refused to pay the “waste disposal fees” collected by the water company. Soon his house was shut down again。
Zhang xiao fei and several other families suffered the same. Journalists saw under his house that the notice of the water factory's arrears had been posted at the entrance to the building and the piped water valve to the homes of the households had been closed。
In the city's water company contribution hall, a fee-paying staff member indicated that the collection of garbage was arranged above and that the computer system bound two charges together. Without payment for garbage, water cannot be paid, and running water companies are considered to be in arrears and can stop water at any time。
The staff member admitted that since the garbage and water bundles, since the expropriation, there has been much public opinion, “but we have no choice but to comply with the above”。
The reason for the charge is far-fetched
The journalists learned that in 2011, the city of cebu introduced the temporary scheme for the management of fees for the handling of waste for living in the city of cebu city, which specifies the charge for the disposal of waste at a rate of $3 per household per month. At the same time, municipal residents are required to charge a sum of $6 per household per month for municipal cleaning and cleaning costs and garbage disposal。
The deputy director of the city administration of ceion city, yip ha lin, who is responsible for carrying this work forward, said that the two charges were charged together “inappropriately”. The former is based on documents issued by departments such as the housing and urban and rural construction department of anhui province; the latter is an operating fee for services, which has been collected from the general population by units that provide sanitation and cleaning services such as the streets, properties, etc。
The city of cebu collects the two fees in combination, although it is aware that they are inappropriate. Why does the government think $6
The deputy director of the environmental health administration of cedar city explained that the city of cedar had planned to charge for garbage disposal as early as 2009. However, due to the financial crisis of the year, the state banned new local fee lines. The matter was again on the agenda in 2010. The city of cedars is described as having an urban waste disposal plant, with a total annual collection, transport and disposal cost of more than $20 million, while the financial allocations combined amount to less than $10 million, leaving the remaining gap to be compensated by society. As a result, the cebu city administration has calculated a three-dollar monthly garbage disposal fee rate per household。
“in view of the fact that the charge is too high for thousands of households, it was decided to use the water platform to pay.” yandé said that the rate of payments had been high since the start of the campaign in june and that the consolidation of garbage cleaning fees had begun in july。
An informed person in cebu city revealed that, as many old neighbourhoods in cebu have been left without property management, the cost of garbage removal has been collected by street or district sanitation units for many years. The city authorities of cedar city collect and collect the freight charges for garbage disposal, effectively guaranteeing the “stable income” of their sanitation units。
This has made it easier for city authorities to suffer some of the residents of cebu. Mr. Qiu, a citizen of the international garden of the southern state of accommodation, presented to journalists a small property bill with a clear indication of the receipt of more than $100 for garbage removal in 2012. However, in july, he was forced to make a double payment to the city administration after the city administration of cebu collected the waste removal fee。
“isn't it not a double collection that has been charged for the transportation of garbage in the sub-districts and for the collection of garbage by the municipal authorities?” mr. Qiu complains。
The head of zhang xiao fei's northern district property company also stated that they had no say in the unreasonable collection of waste disposal fees by the city authorities, but that the waste clearance fee had been collected by the property industry and was now being collected by the city authorities. This has resulted both in the duplicate payment of some of the paid residents and in the overloading of property by the public authorities, which is “ununderstood”。
If you don't come in, you can make money
In cebu, however, since the introduction of the garbage disposal fee in june, the cumulative collection of more than $1. 2 million has so far been deposited in the account of the collector cebu city water company。
Why don't you take the money? The city department of cebu explained that the establishment of the household was still under way. According to the source, the main reason is that the fee is “undetermined”。
In an internal input from the municipal authorities, the following proposals are made for the allocation of the waste disposal charges collected by the water utility: the waste disposal charges, which are administrative charges, are included in the financial receipts and disbursements, while the freight charges, which are collected, are used by the municipal authorities. Of these, the small areas managed by the property company are refunded to the property company and to the inhabitants of the small area at the actual rate; the small areas without the property management are paid at no less than 80 per cent of the cost to the sanitary unit responsible for garbage removal, and the remaining 20 per cent of the waste disposal fee is returned by the municipal authority, as appropriate, in part to reward the service charges of the water company。
“this distribution scheme is tantamount to using the machine to retain a portion of the waste disposal fee for personal use.” an insider in cebu city told journalists that the waste disposal fee was still not available due to delays in finalizing the allocation。
It is understood that, at present, the city authorities of cedar city are requiring residents to apply for refunds from a paid property or sanitation unit。
“what money do we return to the inhabitants of the city without returning the money?” the head of the northern quarter property company complained. Owing to the lack of financial resources in the city and the reluctance of the population to pay any further contributions, the property company, which cannot afford to hire people, has suspended waste disposal services in some areas。
“the city's authorities are now squeezed in to share a piece of garbage that was originally handed over to the property companies. Is it not a dispute with the people that they continue to do so while knowing that they are being collected again and that they are still doing so, leading to a residential garbage siege?” one of the residents of cebu city was angry。
“any government fee, whether directed at individuals or enterprises, shall be authorized by law and regulations and cannot be based solely on sectoral documents.”
The expert noted that the inclusion of business service charges in the government's unified collection was an ultra vires act that did not meet the 18th report's requirement to promote a shift in government functions to the provision of quality public services and should be corrected。
Some citizens have indicated that the new year is approaching and that some small-town residents are suffering from garbage sieges, and they hope that the city authorities will correct the excessive charges and seriously address the practical difficulties faced by the citizens。
