ThisWeek CW 09/24/2015
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Groveport residents will see a slight decrease in their monthly trash bills starting Jan. 1, thanks to a new five-year contract with Local Waste Services Ltd. approved by city council Sept. 14.
The new contract will reduce the monthly fee for service currently being provided by Local Waste from $14.28 to $14.17. Local Waste was the lowest of three bidders; the others were Republic Services and Rumpke of Ohio.
A consortium of 10 central Ohio municipalities participated in this year’s bid process, organized and administered through the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio. Besides Groveport, the other consortium members include Upper Arlington, Whitehall, Brice, Obetz, Clinton Township, Madison Township, Pleasant Township, Sharon Township and Truro Township.
City Administrator Marsha Hall presented council with the bids and said Groveport could either accept the one from Local Waste or go back and seek bids on its own.
“If you don’t want to go with the Local Waste option, you’ll have to opt out of this bid and we’ll have to have our own bid process,” Hall said. “That would probably come in at a higher cost because we’re benefiting from the larger resident base with the consortium.”
According to Hall’s report, Local Waste submitted a number of options:
* Retain current services, including Local Waste doing the billing, for $14.17 a month.
* Retain current services, without billing, for $14 a month.
* Use new automated pickup, which includes special disposal containers, for $16.50 a month for a five-year contract.
By retaining current services, Hall said the city could choose either a three-year contract with two renewals, both of which had price escalations up to $14.37 a month; or a five-year contract with monthly rates remaining at $14.17 rate for all five years.
The bid from Republic Services was for $40 a month for 2016-18, $41 a month for 2019 and $42 a month in 2020.
Rumpke of Ohio’s bid was for $19.90 monthly for 2016-18, $20.61 a month for 2019 and $21.33 a month in 2020.
“One thing I can say is that they take what you put out there and I think that helps in terms of keeping the city clean,” Councilman Shawn Cleary said. “And if you take advantage of the recycling they offer, you end up with very little trash.”
Councilman Ed Dildine agreed, saying that he didn’t believe he’d heard anyone complain about or have problems with Local Waste.