REVISIONS COULD ALTER TRASH RATES : PROPOSAL CALLS FOR BILLS TO DROP $1 PER MONTH.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Trash bills would be reduced $1 a month for residential customers, and commercial rates would go down 7 percent under proposed revisions to contracts with Lancaster's two rubbish haulers. The proposed contracts, which will be considered by the City Council on Thursday, also end the practice of placing tax liens Tax Lien A claim imposed by the federal government to liquidate a persons property until owing tax and debt is fully paid. Notes: Tax liens can be purchased from the government in the form of an investment. on properties with unpaid trash bills and replaces the automatic-renewal provisions in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. See also: favor 15-year terms. ``Both the trash haulers will be happy, and the community will be happy,'' Vice Mayor Henry Hearns said. The proposed pacts come after months of on-again, off-again on-a·gain, off-a·gain adj. Informal Existing or continuing sporadically; intermittent or occasional: an on-again, off-again correspondence. negotiations aimed at correcting what city officials conceded con·cede v. con·ced·ed, con·ced·ing, con·cedes v.tr. 1. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit. See Synonyms at acknowledge. 2. were shortcomings A shortcoming is a character flaw. Shortcomings may also be:
In October, city staff had proposed giving Waste Management exclusive rights to service Lancaster businesses in return for lowering rates, giving up the property liens and making other changes, but the proposal drew protests from residents and A.V. Rubbish. The idea was withdrawn when both waste haulers agreed to head back to the negotiating table. The proposed contracts, which have been approved by both companies, maintain the practice of allowing commercial and industrial customers to choose between A.V. Rubbish and Waste Management, city officials said. The contracts maintain the residential territory division created by a 1991 pact with the waste haulers. At present, Waste Management serves all residences north of Avenue L - about 94 percent of the city's homes - and A.V. Rubbish serves the homes south of it. City Council will consider the new pacts at 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall, 44933 Fern Ave. The proposed contracts call for reducing residential rates from $16.85 to $15.85 per month. Rates for senior citizens will drop to $12.45 per month. All residential customers can save $2 a month if they participate in a green waste recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. program. Residential customers can save 5 percent by paying a year in advance. The contracts would also provide residents with a 15 percent reduction in landfill gate rates; indemnify To compensate for loss or damage; to provide security for financial reimbursement to an individual in case of a specified loss incurred by the person. Insurance companies indemnify their policyholders against damage caused by such things as fire, theft, and flooding, which the city from fines in the event Lancaster does not meet state-mandated trash reduction goals; and provides for each residence to receive a 65-gallon container at no cost for green waste such as yard clippings. Councilman Michael Singer said he would like to have seen the residential territory division ended. ``My druthers druth·ers pl.n. Informal A choice or preference: "Given their druthers, these hell-for-leather free marketeers might sell the post office" George F. Will. would be to institute an open-market system - free competition,'' Singer said. ``We got some tremendous things for the city. Is it perfect? No. It's probably going to be close enough.'' |
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