Torres is poised to take over the Richards' contract now. After that, he's bidding on Algiers as well.
Contract negotiations will follow Tuesday’s selection. If they are successful, IV Waste will take over from Richard's in the new area on April 1.
At that point, Torres would control nearly three quarters of the city's 153,000 curbside waste and recycling pickups outside of the French Quarter and parts of the Central Business District — and that might not be all. On Wednesday, the same committee is scheduled to select a new hauler for Algiers, with more than 18,000 service locations.
IV Waste is also vying for that contract.
These are some of the biggest, most lucrative contracts the city lets to anyone and now Sidney is closer to collecting them all. So that's what he's won. What do we get out of the deal?
The administration also allowed the contractors to cut service frequency in half, to once-per-week, to avoid disruptions in the future. The service cut is now permanent, since going back to twice-weekly pickups would further balloon what the city must pay.
Cantrell last year hinted that an increase in $24 monthly sanitation fees on water bills may eventually become necessary, despite the service cuts, since the fees don’t cover the costs. She has more recently dropped those hints, however, as outcry grows over rising taxes, insurance and other costs of living.
Over the long haul, what happens is you pay more and get less while one trash hauler hauls away more and more of the loot.
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