As City Council is aware, currently there are five trash collection companies operating within the city limits. In February 2021 the City sent notifications to all five of the trash collection companies a three-year notice of intent to convert from the existing trash collection open market system to a single-hauler system. In June of 2023 RFP23-023 was advertised for a single trash hauling vendor. On August 21, 2023 at a special public meeting, City Council approved Waste Pro of Florida, Inc. dba JD Parker and Sons to be the City’s single trash hauler and to enter into a seven-year agreement with the potential to extend the agreement out to ten years.
As the City moves forward in this process, the need to modify the existing solid waste ordinance has been identified. The attached proposed ordinance 2024-2285 includes updated edits to satisfy definitions, “level of service” methodologies for customer classifications, collection frequencies, cost of services, customer billing frequencies, administration adjustments not identified in the attached ordinance, and service interruption.