Sign the Petition! Heres why: #1: The City will be awarding a contract valued at around $400 million over 10-years and the selection committee did not take the time to listen to presentations, nor did City officials ever ask questions of Texas Disposal Systems staff until minutes before the final vote to accept the negotiated contract with Republic. Thats not fair and thats not a smart, practical business practice. #2: It matters how the Request For Proposal is specifically written. Gag-ordering Texas Disposal Systems such that they cannot offer suggestions to streamline waste services is not fair and it is not smart, practical business practice. #3: TDS was founded and is operated by two San Angelo natives who grew up in our city. Republic Services is based in Phoenix, Arizona. If at all possible, we want the City Council to select local businesses! #4: Republic Services IS NOT in legal good standing with our community. You, the City Council, are giving away our leverage to force Republic to pay our local businesses back. Signing an agreement with legal issues pending is a highly irregular business practice and is putting the citizens that you were elected to protect, at risk of not being able to collect the fees owed to us! #5 Republic Services officials have in fact offered at least some council members a perk or perks. Some members have refused.. While no member may have been asked to vote one way or another, there is an implied obligation to vote in favor of Republic when accepting perks. This is not ethical and we do not approve of this practice. #6 Our citizens want recycling services to start this year; not by February 1, 2016. That is too long to initiate recycling services. #7 It is not advantageous to the Citizens of San Angelo to carryover Republics prior liabilities into the new contract. Doing so discourages companies from applying and it raises proposed rates to cover Republics liabilities. YOU can make your voice heard by every city council member by signing this petition. To share or tweet the link, copy and paste this: change.org/petitions/city-council-vote-no-to-the-new-waste-management-ordinances?recruiter=125433365&utm_campaign=twitter_link&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition via @Change See you at the City Council meeting, Tuesday at 9am
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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