Recology had the opportunity to negotiate last spring. Recology believes they were losing money on the contract the took over from the prior vendor. Their attitude is that they should be able to make up for that lost revenue in the new contract; Sebastopol rate payers should make up for their mistake. Only a monopoly thinks like this. The City Council committee and City staff put a lot of work into ensuring and fair process to pick a vendor, I support their conclusion to switch to a new vendor.
Go to the meeting or zoom it and listen to the experts. I don't want to pay more and if you read it the recommendation from the city is the least expensive.
Recology had the opportunity to negotiate last spring. Recology believes they were losing money on the contract the took over from the prior vendor. Their attitude is that they should be able to make up for that lost revenue in the new contract; Sebastopol rate payers should make up for their mistake. Only a monopoly thinks like this. The City Council committee and City staff put a lot of work into ensuring and fair process to pick a vendor, I support their conclusion to switch to a new vendor.
I'm in favor of keeping the Recology contract. I sent my concerns to all the council members to this email address: citycouncil@cityofsebastopol.gov.
Go to the meeting or zoom it and listen to the experts. I don't want to pay more and if you read it the recommendation from the city is the least expensive.
Chris is correct.