Cleaning team members are the unsung heroes who protect the city. In response to the problems of Taichung City's cleaning team working at night, old garbage trucks, and insufficient manpower, Democratic Progressive Party Taichung mayoral candidate He Xinchun today proposed five practical actions to protect the front line of cleaning, including increasing the nighttime fee to a maximum of 220 yuan, expanding manpower, accelerating the replacement of garbage trucks, upgrading service equipment, and increasing the operating fee of the environmental protection volunteer team to 60,000 yuan per year.
He Xinchun said that the frontline cleaning team members are very hard-working and have made great efforts in city appearance, public health, garbage disposal and environmental cleaning. She went deep into the grassroots to understand the problems encountered by the frontline team members, and made five major commitments. The first commitment is to increase the nighttime fee. The current nighttime fee is 10 0 to 120 yuan. Although it has been increased from the previous 80 yuan, it is still low compared with other municipalities. If she is elected mayor, she will increase the amount by 100 yuan, raising it to 220 yuan, the highest in the country. Incineration plants and special high-risk services will be added after discussion. It will also be adjusted on a rolling basis based on price fluctuations.
The second commitment is to expand manpower. Cleaning team staff in Taichung districts generally face the problem of insufficient manpower and unequal pay for equal work. Among the nearly 3,000 team members, 2,000 are regular team members and 1,000 are temporary team members. Regardless of whether they are full-time or temporary, it is very hard. Therefore, it is necessary to expand the number of staff and speed up the transition of temporary staff to regular staff.
The third item is aimed at the safety of garbage trucks. Among the existing garbage trucks in Taichung, nearly 80% are old vehicles purchased three years ago. Some vehicles lack complete safety equipment. In the future, the service life will be reduced, sufficient maintenance and update funds will be allocated, and equipment such as surround images and reversing warnings will be gradually added. Priority will be given to vehicles that are old, have frequent breakdowns, and have insufficient safety equipment.
The fourth item includes service equipment such as raincoats, rain boots, vests and fan jackets. He Xinchun advocates allocating project funds to speed up their replacement. Facing the insufficient processing capacity of large-scale discarded furniture and mattresses, they will also purchase destruction machines and increase transportation and temporary storage space; the fifth item is the operating expenses of the environmental protection volunteer team. , the current annual salary per team is 24,000 yuan, and He Xinchun proposed to increase it to 60,000 yuan, hoping to cover basic expenses such as cleaning tools and consumables. She said that volunteers have long been committed to street cleaning, mountain cleaning, stream cleaning, and resource recycling promotion. In the future, they will support operations based on the principle of "one mile, one team".
