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• C aN�M stileOverr ving Contr®1 ofGarbage That pile of lawn and garden clippings The firm maintains the sweetening same increases in costs of operation and vice would be lower. C $0 eCO�� in your back yard may represent a lot of provisions are necessary in order to jus- would be charging rates at least as high Hake likes the current setup, but sweat and backaches to you, but to tify the large capital outlays it would as Stockton Scavenger, Hake said. would like the combined service to begin A J.,.1" ; Stockton Scavenger Associaton, it means have to make to buy equipment and to fi- Basso would like to see the service be- now. Ilmn., JWy 6, 1978 21 money. nance a $2 million recycling center. gin when a new franchise is awarded in "If we wait until the end of our con- - - It also means the possibility of avoid- However, Delta Container Corp., 1981. In fact, he would like to see a fran- tract, the city would be spending more ing competitive bidding for a renewal of through its vice president, Gregory chise awarded only for residential than $2 million on garden refuse pickup 974 Reviisited its trash hauling contract with the City Basso, objects vigorously to any move to pickup and allow commercial and indus- between now and then," he said. of Stockton, a 20-year agreement that extend Stockton Scavenger's franchise trial hauling to be regulated by license "We're going to be reducing our costs h- ends in 1981. now. The two firms already compete for not franchise. per individual collection (with combined, In 1974, the City Council rejected a combined trash-yard refuse pickup plan similar to one now proposed by h- Stockton Scavenger wants to take over industrial trash pickup in the Stockton He believes the "market will deter- curbside service). That is an advantage the job of yard refuse pickup—a task area. mine the prices" and those prices for to the people; we would pass it on," said Councilman James Paige. ° The plan was dumped under outspoken public pres- now performed by city crews who sweep Basso says he was told by city officials commercial and industrial pickup ser- Hake. sure to retain the city-operated system of picking up up the clippings from street gutters at an last December that 1981 would be the yard refuse in street gutters, a system that was then annual cost now reaching nearly $750,000 earliest time at which they could con- costing the city$581,110 out of a total municipal budget a year. sider competitive bids for the city trash of $23.8 million. City Councilman James Paige wants to franchise. Paige has brought the plan forward again in what he eliminate that bite out of the city's He says he intends to hold them to says is part of his on-going search for ways to cut city budget, which for the current fiscal year their words. expenses, particular) after the success of the Jarvis- is $31.4 million. Yard clippings pickup "Who's to say it can't be done for $3 Gann property tax limit initiative. represents about 21/2percent of the instead of $3.95?" Basso asks, referring Under the Paige proposal, Stockton Scavenger Asso- budget total. to the proposed $3.95 rate for combined ciation would pick up household trash and yard clip As the council begins consideration trash and yard refuse pickup. pings—all containerized—at curbside for $3.95. That this summer of Paige's plan to cut the But Stockton Scavenger officials see price would cover an unlimited number of containers. city service and award the work to the extension as mandatory if they are to But this is what Stockton Scavenger wants in return: Stockton Scavenger, a second trash haul- increase the number of workers and Extension of the company's franchise agreement ing firm is opposing what its spokesman tnicks that will be needed to combine the with the city to the year 2001. It is due to expire in 1981. called Scavenger's attempt "to grab all trash and garden refuse services and to • A guaranteed 8 percent annual profit. The com- the refuse collection business" in the build a $2 million'recycling plant in the pany claims it has not made a profit the last four area. city. years. Company Controller Robert Hake said The city would receive any revenue resulting fromBasically, the Paige proposal, which bank officials want to see a long-term income to the firm exceeding the 8 percent profit at the has the backing of Stockton Scavenger, contract before approving loans to add end of the new m year franchise. would provide Curbside pickup of both equipment and build the plant. Also, as part of a new franchise agreement, the com household trash and yard clippings. Res Sideloader trucks, which Hake said pany would be required to provide a certified annual idents would be required to put all refuse would be needed for curbside pickup effi- audit. in containers. ciency, cost $54,000 each and he esti- Four years ago, when it was rejected by the council, , Stockton Scavenger would charge $3.95 mates 24 would be needed. the plan would have cost customers $2 a month. But per month for an unlimited number of "I can't justify going out and spending since the franchise holder's fee to the city would have containers, compared to the $3.10 now that much money on a contract that may been reduced from 20 to 5 percent, the net cost per charged for the first container. An addi- be washed up at the end of three years," household would actually have been about $2.30 per tional $1 would be charged to those who Hake says. month for up to three containers of assorted trash. want trash picked up from their back He insists that Stockton Scavenger has In 1974, the first can rate for residential pickupby yards. - provided "quality service" in Stockton. Stockton Scavenger was$1.80. The present rate is $3.10. In exchange for the expanded service, "I can see no justification for changing The new s.istem proposed by Paige offers collection Stockton Scavenger wants an automatic contractors," he said. of an unlimited number of containers for $3.95 20-Year extension on its franchise with He'admits "anyone could underbid month. the city and a guaranteed 8 percent an- us." Any other company winning the In both the 1974 plan and the present pro nual profit. franchise in 1981 would be faced with the fee would be imposed for backyard pic , A certified audit is now being prepar Scavenger on its 1977 operations at the council. which has demanded that the it nes load the rate increases granted i Oncehat audit is completed, the co consid the "Paige" plan.