Tag: Republic Services
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Priority Waste contracted for $19.7 million through 2024 for residential waste collection
By Tom Travis The City Council passed a new waste service provider contract that will begin Oct. 1, 2021 with Priority Waste that will include waste collection every week for trash, recycling and yard waste. The contract is for $19.7 million for waste pick-up through June 30, 2024. The resolution allows for the option of…
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Eight-hour Flint City Council meeting, recessed for second time, covers COVID effects on trash pickup, accounting costs.
By Tom Travis At an eight-hour long meeting Monday night, the Flint City Council was updated by the city’s accounting firm requesting a greater reimbursement, heard from the city’s trash collector about COVID effects on yard waste pick-up, and received a follow-up about the September fire which destroyed the Pierce Park community center. City’s accounting…
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Trash talk: City of Flint puts Republic on notice for “widespread service failures”
The following press release was issued Tuesday by the City of Flint: “The City of Flint today officially notified Republic Services that it is in breach of its contract for widespread service failures. The letter demands Republic restore all service throughout the City and fulfill its contractual obligations to provide trash, recycle, and yard waste…
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Residential trash collection continuing as scheduled, Republic confirms
The following statement came from the City of Flint this morning: Residential trash collection is continuing as scheduled in the City of Flint. Republic Services is asking only that you properly bag your trash. Their full statement is included below:
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Recycling participation, PODS updates highlight FNU monthly meeting
By Sherrema Bower The City of Flint’s recycling program and the closing of Points of Distribution Sites (PODS) were topics of interest at the Flint Neighborhoods United (FNU) monthly meeting at Woodside Church, Saturday, Sept. 9. About 25 people attended, representing a variety of community groups. Heather Griffin, waste services coordinator at the City…
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“”Time to move on — no more vetoes,” Weaver declares in trash contract resolution
By Jan Worth-Nelson The state-appointed Receivership Transition Advisory Board today gave their blessing to an agreement between Mayor Karen Weaver and the Flint City Council that promises to end, after months of wrangling and dueling trash trucks, the dispute over who will pick up the city’s garbage. Republic Services, Flint’s trash contractor for the past…
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Concerned Pastors deliver blistering salvo at Councilman Scott Kincaid, City Council
By Jan Worth-Nelson A powerful consortium of Flint clergy, the Concerned Pastors for Social Action, a group which has consistently weighed in in support of Mayor Karen Weaver, today stood in the lobby of Flint City Hall and delivered a blistering salvo at the Flint City Council. In particular, they directed their ire at Councilman Scott Kincaid, who…
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Trash dispute, trailer parks demolition, Pierce Park prospects featured at CCNA
By Kayla Chappell The September meeting of the College Cultural Neighborhood Association (CCNA) primarily focused on city issues, presented by Monica Galloway, Seventh Ward City Council member, and Kate Fields, Fourth Ward City Council member. Other topics raised at the meeting, attended by about 55 residents, included Legionnaires’ disease and the future of Pierce Park.…
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Judge orders city council, mayor to confab on trash; Republic still on, Weaver speaks out
By Jan Worth-Nelson Mayor Karen Weaver and her top staff, along with City Council President Kerry Nelson and Councilman Scott Kincaid, will be reporting for trash negotiation boot camp this morning (Wednesday, Sept. 28), muscled into the courtroom of Circuit Court Judge Joseph Farah. And they have been ordered to stay at it, from 9 a.m.…
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If it’s Monday, there must be trash: dual pickups possible as council/mayoral dispute continues
By Jan Worth-Nelson 11 a.m. update: Kristin Moore, Mayor Karen Weaver’s public relations director, has just released the following statement: “Mayor Weaver is waiting on a decision from the appeals court regarding the waste collection situation. She did send a termination letter to Republic Services stating the company should stop collecting trash in Flint as…
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