Full-time Toter cop for Manteca

Full-time Toter cop for Manteca
Stepping up enforcement on mandatory recycling as well

Dennis Wyatt
Managing Editor

Manteca's crackdown on Toters left in view of the street on non-collection days is about to pick up.

The proposed $129.7 million municipal spending plan proposed for the fiscal year starting July 1 includes funds to take a part-time position with the recycling division to full-time status. The additional hours will be devoted in part to stepping up Toter rules enforcement as well as to allow the city to start forcing businesses and others not complying to mandatory recycling to do so.

The part-time employee has been responsible for the city reducing Toter complaints down to about a dozen a week in the past year compared to three to four times that in the past.

People violating Manteca's Toter laws is the No. 1 code enforcement complaint received by the city.

Leave either your blue, green or brown Toters out more than two days and you'll get a knock on the door or a courtesy form on your door knob telling you of the city rules.

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