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.
Surely we can find a Republican to blame for this.
Probably cost $5k in parts and labor.
“God Bless Chocolate City and its Vanilla Suburbs”
No running water and piled up trash is the natural environment of the negro. I don’t see the big deal here.
Third world enclave run by African kleptocrats.
Of course, Mississippi as a whole hasn’t really been worth much since the Sovereignty Commission was shut down.
Sounds like the city needs some new leadership. It might be a good idea to do an audit & see where all the money is going.
> 5. Dump your trash at the homes of the City Council. <
Jackson can’t afford garbage service. But you can bet they’ll find money to station police at officials’ homes. I predict that folks are going to dump their trash in vacant lots, in city parks, on a neighbor’s front lawn, etc. No one will follow those unrealistic conservation rules.
Fun times ahead.
Jefferson county Alabama (Birmingham) filed bankruptcy over a decade ago. I think the state finally bailed them out.
Of course, in that case it was New York bankers that got their hands in the taxpayers' pockets.
White neighborhoods have had to hire private security for years. No police protection for crackers.
Preview of coming events.
The problem with a state capital is that so many properties in the city do not generate property tax revenue because they are government offices for the state AND the city itself.
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Taxpayers’ dollars are all going to D.I.E. advocacy, bribes and graft,and none is going to paying for the services for which residents pay their taxes and expect to be provided.
is this to be a re-hash of the Great Long Island Garbage Scow Tour of the 90’s?
[The city stiffed him massively because he was “rich” and could afford to pay for it himself.]
Africa wins again.
How does “Africa” win here?
“The problem with a state capital is that so many properties in the city do not generate property tax revenue because they are government offices for the state AND the city itself.”
Also the dependent-class gravitate to where the seat of government (and handout agencies) are based.
The city and situation I was referring to was Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa. It is an old saying of “Africa Hands,” that nothing changes in Africa. Africa always wins.
With the Mayor of Jackson being named Chokwe Antar Lumumba, it might also apply there.
Interesting.
Black guy so must be an African thing, a continent with over 59 countries.
“Black guy so must be an African thing, a continent with over 59 countries.”
From the Wikipedia entry about his father: “He was born in Detroit, Michigan, as Edwin Finley Taliaferro, and was raised there.[1] He changed his name in 1969 after joining the Republic of New Afrika.”
I bet the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
And how many of those 59 countries are not considered crap-holes? How many of them would you want to live in?
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