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Century Residents Facing Garbage Rate Increase
November 1, 2020
Century residents are facing a garbage rate increase.
The town contracts with Republic Services to collect garbage within the town limits. Republic has a provision in their contract that allows them to increase the rates they charged the town each December to match the Consumer Price Index.
That will amount to 3.4%, or about 80 cents, per customer, according to Interim Town Manager Vernon Prather. The town traditionally passes the rate increase directly along to residents.
Century renewed a five year contract with Republic Services in July.
Residential sanitation customers in Century currently 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 as of July, Century makes $1,588.34 per month that pays the town for providing customer service and billing.
The Century Town Council will consider the rate increase at their November 16 regular meeting.
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8 Responses to “Century Residents Facing Garbage Rate Increase”
Let me look at my ECUA bill real quick…$26.04 is my current bill through Escambia’s main provider. So let pose a question what are we coming about? other than Century not receiving the recycling service, cause the price is fair.
“… 533 containers as of July, Century makes $1,588.34 per month…”
$1588.34 ÷ 22 (approximate working days per month) = ~$72.20 per work day
~$72.20 ÷ 8 = $9.02 an hour.
No wonder why Century is messed up on garbage service. They only have enough money to pay one full time employee.
It’s amazing you have these individuals running for office and also those on the city council that you don’t see until they want your vote. Never visit the community to check on the needs or volunteer their time during crisis.
Strange how the consumer price index is 3.4% and social security is 1.3%. Perhaps they need to use the consumer price index when giving social security raises.
The High Cost of living in Century.
There we go, more and more expensive bills during an already tremendously hard time, for struggling families, all whilst receiving the same poor service we’ve always received. A shame.
Why are they in such dire financial straits if they have so much income from so many different sources. Garbage pays, water pays, all the services they have seems to pay them instead of vice versa!
it never ends. raise our taxes, garbage, water, and natural gas prices. and what improvements do we see?