Today, a meeting with other Forth councillors about the location of recycling bins in a local street - and disagreement over the solution. Apparently the protocol is we go with the majority vote...we try valiantly to find some common ground aware, that for 1 constituent, this has become an issue of overwhelming importance but to resolve in her favour, most probably means upsetting all the rest. We edge towards a solution that involves monitoring, trials and an attempt to change a whole street's recycling behaviour in order to reduce the number of on street receptacles.
The officer explains this exercise will involve her visiting the street every day for 4 months (even if only briefly) and instinctively I want to back pedal on the solution - it seems a helluva lot of extra pressure on a busy, senior officer's time just to find a solution to 1 singularly persistent complaint.
She is adamant, though. If she can crack this problem then it can be applied elsewhere in the city and she can only be certain of the evidence if she sees it for herself.
I have to applaud her diligence and commitment to duty and I hope, in the end, we are able to satisfy the constituent...nonetheless, it seems a very expensive way to serve the public.
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