Posted on 10/06/2022 4:40:55 PM PDT by TigerClaws
The city of Jackson issued the following statement.
After six months under an emergency contract and without compensation, Richard’s Disposal will cease all city-wide garbage collection. Their final day of garbage pick up will be Saturday, October 8.
The announcement affects approximately 150,000 residential customers as well as municipal court and other municipal buildings around the city that are being serviced with roll off containers. The stoppage includes the twice-per-week pick-up of all residential garbage (including the collection of bulk items and bagged leaves). Household Hazardous Waste can still be dropped off at 1570 University Boulevard (at the corner of Highway 80 West).
Richard’s Disposal, the low bidder for the waste management contract by $12 million, was issued a fully executed emergency contract that has yet to be ratified by the Jackson City Council. Since April 1, 2022, the contractor has satisfactorily fulfilled all obligations and the outstanding invoices due for garbage collection over the past six months exceeds four million dollars. The work stoppage directly affects 70 local employees who were unemployed or underemployed at the time they were hired by Richard’s. Additionally, the contractor employs a local security company that operates around the clock to protect vehicles and equipment.
“I would like to thank Richard’s Disposal, their 70 local employees, and Mr. Alvin Richard for their dedicated service over the past six months,” said Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. “They have met all the obligations of their executed contract and have gone above and beyond the terms of the agreement. It is unfortunate that the Jackson City Council has failed to ratify the executed contract and allow for payment for services rendered. The citizens of Jackson have paid and continue to pay for the solid waste collection, and they have received the services but, due to inaction by the Jackson City Council, my administration is legally unable to pay Richard’s for services rendered. My thoughts and prayers are with the 70 local employees and their families who are facing unemployment as we approach the holiday season.”
Pending a ratified contract and payment for services rendered, the contractor is suspending operations in the city and garbage collection will be on hold indefinitely.
Residents are encouraged to manage interrupted trash pick-up by:
1. Reducing the amount of household waste by using reusable containers and other sustainable household products and goods, rather than disposables;
2. Freezing seafood waste until garbage pickup resumes;
3. Continuing to drop-off all Household Hazardous Waste to 1570 University Boulevard; and
4. Staying informed by following updates via the City of Jackson's official website, through social media and the local news.
The city of Jackson is currently exploring all options when it comes to garbage pick up, including designated local pick up spots. We will keep you informed of any new developments.
And?
My grandfather was a brown shirt Nazi in Stuttgart.
Should I be responsible for his actions?
[My grandfather was a brown shirt Nazi in Stuttgart.
Should I be responsible for his actions?]
No, your name is clean when you get it, and is what you make of it.
But in the general scheme of things, parents do influence their children. From the Wikipedia entry about the current Mayor:
“He is a self-described progressive and socialist.[5][6] Lumumba has also referred to himself as a political revolutionary.”
The “Lumumba” in their names most likely comes from the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba. After he got himself killed in a coup, the Soviet Union named the “Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University” in his honor.
What ugly nonsense.
Cry to someone else about these ferals who have ruined our country.
No contractor should do work for Jackson until their contract is ratified by the Jackson City Council. I have no clue as to what the ratification does, I suspect it releases funds to the mayor.
Looks like the mismanagement is systemic.
The good news is, real estate in town is about to become super affordable.
Mayor Daley understood that people want the street lights “on” and the garbage “picked up.” Perhaps, a clone of Boss Daley is needed in Jackson.
> And how many of those 59 [African] countries are not considered crap-holes? <
A big part of the problem is that many national boundaries were drawn by European powers with no regard to tribal boundaries, etc.
It would be like forcing parts of Germany, Poland, and Russia into one country back in, say, 1890. No good could come of that.
Philadelphia has a wage tax that charges anyone who works in the city, whether they live in the city or not. Also, Philadelphians who work outside the city still have to pay the wage tax.
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