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Santa Rosa To Consider North End Garbage Service
September 20, 2011
Santa Rosa County is beginning a three year process that could eventually lead to the availability of franchise garbage service in the central and northern part of the county.
The county commission decided Monday morning to hold a public hearing to notify sanitation service providers that the county could award franchises north of the Yellow River. In the area now, residents can use the garbage service company of their choice or dispose of their own garbage in a legal manner.
“I got a feeling that we’ll get battered by a lot of folks that do not want this service in the rural areas; they take care of (their garbage) themselves,” Commissioner Bob Cole said. “This is not something we are implementing immediately.”
“This is not a three-year clock. This is a three-year process where we will get public input,” Commissioner Don Salter said. “I don’t want to send a message out they we are absolutely going to do it.
The earliest the garbage franchises could be awarded for the central and northern parts of Santa Rosa County would be 2014. After a three-year warning period, the commission recently awarded a garbage franchise in the unincorporated areas of southern Santa Rosa County. Like the franchise in the southern part of the county, using of any garbage franchise companies in the north part of Santa Rosa County would be optional.
Pictured: Santa Rosa County District 3 Commissioner Don Salter discusses garbage service in the north end of the county at Monday’s Commissioner Committee. Courtesy photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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2 Responses to “Santa Rosa To Consider North End Garbage Service”
Taking your garbage to the county landfield is cheaper than being on a garbage route. I know, I was on a garbage route and did not like the service. If garbage was dropped on the ground (at time of pickup), that is where it stayed until I picked it up! At $3.00 a pickup load in this economy is a Bargain!
Garbage p/u will be great, for those who do not haul their own garbage, to the dump. My neighbor is worth about 3million, and burns the garbage (plastic included), in a drum at night. I dread those southern breezes.