That would be the SAME Waste Connections trash contract that former Mayor Misti Talbert couldn’t be bothered to put out for bid in 2020:
I think this is the final year of their five-year contract. So if I was Assistant TO the City Manager Ryan “Gump” Ward, I think I’d be negotiating with them a little bit and reminding them that next spring, their contract is over with the City. Maybe the City is going to put the whole thing out for bid again if you don’t re-think that 3.66% increase right now. Maybe we only raise it 1% this time, buddy.
“But they have an agreement!” – yes, the contract the City has with Waste Connections [page 142] states they can raise the prices as much as the CPI increase. But the CPI (and Social Security COLAs) for 2023 was 3.4%…NOT 3.66%. So I’m not sure where that number comes from.
Furthermore, the City didn’t seem to give a shit that they ALSO had a signed “agreement” with Martin Rod & Custom over there at the Industrial Park that was violated non-stop from Day One. The city even paid their hack attorney J.C. Brown $7,000 to draw it up! But in the end, it was ignored completely and then the “deal” blew up a few weeks ago. Same with Brodie Estates.
So we see that “agreements” with the City aren’t actually worth the paper they are printed on. At least when it comes to screwing the taxpayer.