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Century Renews Garbage Pick Up Contract; Can’t Afford Own Truck; Doesn’t Consider ECUA
July 24, 2020
The Town of Century has renewed a contract with Republic Services to provide solid waste collection and disposal to residents.
The five-year contract renewal is at the same rate the town currently pays, plus an annual adjustment each December based upon the consumer price index.
Residential sanitation customers in Century pay a monthly fee of $23.63. That’s broken down to $17.42 per residential container and $6.21 for biweekly yard waste pickup. Century does not offer recycling services.
Republic charges the town $14.44 a month for each residential container, so the town retains $2.98 each. With 533 containers, Century makes $1,588.34 per month that pays the town for providing customer service and billing.
Council member James Smith questioned why the town could not take care of the garbage collection themselves. Interim City Manager Vernon Prather said it would cost an estimated $400,000 to purchase a garbage truck and about $100,000 to purchase the containers.
The town gave no consideration to contracting the services to the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority. ECUA provides residential service in Escambia County, including all sides of the Century town limits except the northern border with Alabama.
ECUA customers pay $24.16 per month for one weekly 90-gallon container pick up, a 90-gallon weekly recyclables pick up and one weekly pick up of yard trash. Up to three additional 90-gallon garbage containers are available for $4.02 per month per container. ECUA also offers free pickup of large items like furniture and toilets. Recycling service includes the free collection of car or truck batteries, tires, propane tanks, appliances, bulk cardboard and household electronics like televisions and computers.
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11 Responses to “Century Renews Garbage Pick Up Contract; Can’t Afford Own Truck; Doesn’t Consider ECUA”
I tell ya, the people who run government just have the job for show. I sure wouldn’t want to be remembered for doing nothing.
This is ridiculous. We need recycling now. Our children will suffer the consequences of the decisions made in 2020. 2020: The year we could have made changes… and didn’t. 2020: the year we can still turn things around. We were given dominion over the earth to CARE FOR IT.
Council—Have you seen the dumpsters located around the underserved? These nasty, unsanitary, Republic Waste dumpsters? Republic Waste admit that the dumpsters are their responsibility and property to maintain, and yet every apartment complex here in Century has dumpster bins beyond appalling!! I mean, it is hard to walk to the car some days bc the dumpsters smell that rotten, crawling with flies and maggots, on the inside and outside!. I have called REPEATEDLY, they said it would be fixed in 2 weeks, (while the apartments management said “it can’t be done” so I called myself. Repeatedly. Still have no replacement dumpster.
The citizens of Century deserve better living conditions., I know I have voiced my opinion repeatedly in one on one conversations about recycling to council Members.
Bottom line: Republic Waste doesn’t even maintain their own property. Royal American and Republic Waste definitely don’t care about the town of Century. And the cost to future generations is higher than any money to be profited from this contract!!!!
Santa Rosa and Century both decided not to allow ECUA to bid on their contracts. What ever happened to fair bidding with the process. Santa Rosa change the bidding at the end without allowing ECUA to bid on the same changes. Where is the state overseers on this
I’m really not sure how these council members are thinking, but it doesn’t make sense not to have a garbage pickup without having a service as well to rid furniture, television and pretty much all the stuff that’s going to bea problem to move for the citizens of Century. Do y’all really have sensible leaders on the board? My granddaughter can see that this is a no-brainer….
Why can’t Century dip into its magical money pot????
5000,000.00 nothing for Century to find.
The waste container in the picture is not large enough to fit Century into.
This entire town has lost its mind…but they have never let the lack of money curtail their idiocy!
Don’t think ECUA services are as good as they make them look.
And Mr.Larry Walker and crew have no shame in raising rates either.
Century should take that old lumber building or helicopter plant. Fix it up, divide it into several other smaller buildings and rent them out. Make a whole business district
Hear, hear Century, it’s about what best for residents, not profit for the kingdom’s rulers. And so here we go again, Century getting in the way of itself. You have to ask the question why didn’t the town see bids from other companies, like ECUA. Control, that’s why. ECUA does it’s own billing, and would cut the town’s money making ability. But from the article, ECUA provides superior service to Republic’s. It appears that the only option for Century residents to rid themselves of unwanted large household items like couches, mattresses, appliances, etc. is to put them on the porch or toss them in the yard and woods because there’s no pick-up for those. Take a drive about the town, look and see these items piled around not far from where they toiled their lives away. LOL!
Would be interesting to do some political contact tracing of Century Council members and Republic Services.