5 Utica Water and Sewer 071526 — Transcript

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1. 0:00People are throwing trash and stuff.
2. 0:03>> Yeah.
3. 0:04>> Yeah.
4. 0:04It's all on the streets.
5. 0:05>> Right.
6. 0:06>> They uh
7. 0:07>> And that that that that you know it even
8. 0:10you know wherever we go to see the old
9. 0:12Jackson and all those places and in the
10. 0:14county you right. People just throw away
11. 0:17the the bad bad thing about it is you
12. 0:19like if if
13. 0:21you know you you
14. 0:23giving you work to do and and it and
15. 0:25and it's the people in the community
16. 0:27doing it.
17. 0:27>> Yes. And and I I matter of fact whenever
18. 0:31I go out to Arkansas
19. 0:33going to school out here.
20. 0:34>> Uh-huh.
21. 0:35>> In Arkansas
22. 0:36I'm talking about
23. 0:38you don't want to see trash nowhere.
24. 0:40>> Right. Right. Right.
25. 0:41>> And even on the highways which they have
26. 0:44they have numbers that you can call the
27. 0:46uh
28. 0:46uh call the highway patrol
29. 0:48if anybody threw trash out the windows
30. 0:51>> Mhm.
31. 0:51>> and you uh
32. 0:53and you uh get their tag number
33. 0:55>> Yeah.
34. 0:55>> oh they going they going to uh
35. 0:57they going to uh give that person a hard
36. 0:58time.
37. 0:59>> She's in Little Rock or Pine Bluff?
38. 1:01>> She's in uh Fort Smith.
39. 1:02>> Fort Smith?
40. 1:03>> Yeah, Fort Smith.
41. 1:04>> Yeah. Yeah. I know that when you go to
42. 1:07Little Rock man it it's it's so clean
43. 1:09there and everything.
44. 1:10>> And and all I'm saying how do they do
45. 1:12it?
46. 1:13>> Yeah.
47. 1:14>> But here in Mississippi you see trash
48. 1:16everywhere.
49. 1:17>> Yeah. Yeah.
50. 1:18>> Like like like 18 you be in the city
51. 1:21limits which I tell the
52. 1:23a vision
53. 1:25if you all give the the the manpower
54. 1:29and equipment and stuff.
55. 1:30>> Mhm.
56. 1:30>> But 18 is a a major highway.
57. 1:33>> Right.
58. 1:33>> It goes straight through the town.
59. 1:35>> Yeah.
60. 1:36>> Beautify that area.
61. 1:38>> Mhm. So they they they they they can
62. 1:40know this is Utica.
63. 1:40>> Yes.
64. 1:41>> They they they got to got to be it got
65. 1:43it got to have a
66. 1:44a mark.
67. 1:45>> Yes.
68. 1:45>> Yeah.
69. 1:46>> Yes indeed.
70. 1:47>> Yeah you you right. You right.
71. 1:52And then you know you know one of the
72. 1:53things about it is we You to always have
73. 1:55some money problems and stuff like that.
74. 1:57So, that's the reason why you got to
75. 1:59have
76. 2:00the community helping with keeping it
77. 2:03clean. You know, you you doing the
78. 2:04maintenance of it every day.
79. 2:06And they adding to your plate if you
80. 2:08have to to pick up behind them.
81. 2:10>> Yes, sir.
82. 2:11Matter of fact, some
83. 2:13sawmill down here town
84. 2:15uh
85. 2:17Hudson, it was
86. 2:18you know, we noticed every time we
87. 2:21picked the trash up
88. 2:23trash right back
89. 2:25right back outside the street. I said,
90. 2:27"Okay."
91. 2:28So, I knew who doing this.
92. 2:29>> Mhm.
93. 2:30>> So, I
94. 2:31called the owner of the
95. 2:32mill.
96. 2:33>> Yeah.
97. 2:34>> Told her what what's going on.
98. 2:35>> Mhm.
99. 2:36>> She called all the workers in.
100. 2:38>> Mhm.
101. 2:39>> And and uh told them if you got any more
102. 2:41trash thrown outside the street
103. 2:44you will no longer be employed with this
104. 2:46company.
105. 2:47>> That 80% stopped just like that.
106. 2:49>> That that that's great.
107. 2:50>> Yeah.
108. 2:50>> That's great.
109. 2:51>> 80%
110. 2:53And uh
111. 2:54but
112. 2:55the Mexicans uh
113. 2:57they didn't care. You know, it was like
114. 2:59and we we can throw this out here. I
115. 3:01mean, they was throwing trash.
116. 3:03We was getting
117. 3:04uh
118. 3:05garbage cans full of trash.
119. 3:07>> Right.
120. 3:07>> And and we finally put a stop to that.
121. 3:10And uh
122. 3:11and uh
123. 3:12that was a big help right there.
124. 3:14>> That didn't that was that that's what
125. 3:16really going to you going to have to do
126. 3:17like you said, man, cuz
127. 3:19uh uh
128. 3:21you you'll you'll solve a lot of your
129. 3:23problems but you just get community uh
130. 3:25own own own to it because
131. 3:27>> Exactly.
132. 3:28>> If they cuz the same thing that you did
133. 3:30>> Mhm.
134. 3:30>> they if they are keeping it clean, if
135. 3:33they see somebody doing it, they going
136. 3:34to they going to they going to stop it.
137. 3:36>> Exactly.
138. 3:38>> But if they if they are throwing out and
139. 3:40everything, you know, you kind of
140. 3:41promoting everybody else to throw it
141. 3:43out.
142. 3:43>> exactly right.
143. 3:45Exactly right.
144. 3:48>> Now, this is not the street we was we
145. 3:50was talking about here.
146. 3:50>> No, this this going to be Depot Road. as
147. 3:52soon as we get around this curve, it
148. 3:53turns into pavement.
149. 3:54>> Okay, so this is