Landfill contract.Landfill Contract: The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. tentatively approved another five-year contract with Sunshine Canyon Landfill, but left open an 18-day window to negotiate a deal with its operator to divert some trash from the Granada Hills dump without paying extra. Despite the failure of last-ditch efforts to agree on a plan to gradually truck increasing amounts of the city's household trash to remote dumps, Council President Eric Garcetti Eric Garcetti (born 1971) is the son of former Los Angeles county district attorney Gil Garcetti, and was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2001. He was reelected in 2005. still held out hope to reach a compromise with Browning-Ferris Industries Browning-Ferris Industries, or "BFI", is a licensed trademark of Allied Waste Industries, a North America waste collection company. Many local units of Allied Waste are still known as BFI in the markets they serve. , which owns the landfill. Tentative approval of the contract comes after the council promised to wean wean (wen) to discontinue breast feeding and substitute other feeding habits. wean v. 1. To deprive permanently of breast milk and begin to nourish with other food. 2. the city off Sunshine Canyon over five years, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported. |
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