Last night the League City Council voted to accept a new contract for garbage valued at an estimated 39 million dollars over five years. Not the usual kind of garbage that goes on, but real garbage. BFI/Republic Waste was awarded a 5 year contract with a 18% annual increase in rates for commercial garbage collection and a .24 cents per month reduction for residential garbage pickup. Many concerned business owners were there and some spoke about their concerns over the increase rates. CCISD representative Paul McLarty spoke and informed the Council that the new rate structure would cost CCISD $41,000.00 a year more than they currently pay. Councilman Dennis O'Keeffe and Councilman Dan Becker made a motion to postpone the vote and give the council time evaluate the information they received just prior to the meeting Tuesday night. Dennis Okeeffe wanted to get more citizen input on the 18% rate increase and the public's thoughts on the matter. Councilman Becker and Okeeffe wanted more time to evaluate the proposals and the scoring of the five or so bidders that was prepared by staff. They also wanted more time to review d a citizen's committee's recommendation to accept the contract from BFI/Republic. Becker and Okeeffe's motion was defeated 4-3. The staff evaluated the proposals given by the bidders and then consolidated that tabulation for the council. It appeared that Phalen, Dawson, Mann and Lee were convinced that the contract presented by Republic/BFI was the best deal and no further deliberation was necessary and they voted to approve the five year agreement.
A representitive of Ameriwaste, the current garbage contactor, spoke unrecognized by Mayor Paulissen. He shouted from the audience that he only had a 2.4% increase in his proposal. The Mayor gaveled him down and said that he had the information from staff and his bid was 20% higher.
In another unusual interaction, former Councilman Tommy Cones, addressed the Mayor in a high tension 4 minutes exchange, Mr. Cones inappropriately addressed the Mayor as "Tim" instead of the usual "Mister Mayor". This started a 1 minute exchange of high intensity conversation and high drama. Mr. Cones suggested that in his opinion the incorrect process was used to obtain the bids and the scoring of bidders was skewed unfairly towards one bidder.
While an incorrect bidding process or skewing of a bid would seem out of character for this current staff to have done, Mr. Cones was adamant about his opinion.
Last nights Council meeting was a throw back to past years of dissension. Mr. Dan Becker's and Mr. Dennis Okeeffe's comments win last nights four star award for making the most sense. Keep it up Mr. Becker and Mr. Okeeffe. It might be worthwhile to watch it on channel 16 reruns or stream it on the web if you are interested to see the high drama and tension that took place.
There is a public meeting for the trash contract, Thursday, Nov. 8, at 6 pm in council chambers.
ReplyDeleteSo, Marc, who's right with the numbers, the Mayor or Mr. Cones?
Gentlemen, I didn't realize that you had started this new blog (obviously it's just a couple of months old, which kept its searchability suppressed). I likely won't end up agreeing with all of your viewpoints but I'm sure glad that y'all are making this effort, because what' scariest to me is not LC politics - it's the degree to which so few people are now following them. The more viewpoints, the better.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of the trash contract and the first public meeting that was held the other night, this might be of interest to you:
http://centerpointeleaguecity.blogspot.com/2012/11/turning-trash-into-treasure-open-letter.html
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