CITY CLOSEUP: Trash and Leaf Removal Privatized
Trash pickup will drop to once a week, bulk trash will be on demand and leaves will bagged rather than blown when Bates Trucking and Trash Removal takes over Annapolis' solid waste removal October 1.
Annapolis City Council unanmiously voted to contract its solid waste disposal to Bates Trucking and Trash Removal Monday night as part of the 2013 budget. "The city did a managed competition process for solid waste where we invited bids to handle solid waste, including letting our own city guys bid on it," Mayor Josh Cohen said. "The bottom line is we are going to be contracting out our entire solid waste operation. Not just recycling, but also trash, refuse pickup and yard waste is going to be handled by Bates, which currently does our recycling." Cohen was initially resistant to the idea of contracting out the city's trash services, but ended up voting for the conversion. "I have some concerns about the accountability because it’s …
Annapolis Rose
7:37 am on Monday, July 16, 2012
everything. Our federal government has been taken over by Welfare Queen government contractors. Government contractors do not have a sense of civic duty. They are only interested in ripping off the tax payer providing the lowest level of 'acceptable' work for the most money to maximize profits and finding every means possible to stick it to taxpayer. It's privatization that has corrupted our … more ›