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CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
City Manager Approval:
Item to be presented by:Cameron Smvt
DATE: February 12, 2002
SUBJECT: SOLID WASTE HAULER AUDIT UPDATE
DEPARTMENT: City Council
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council accept report for information only.
BACKGROUND
On October 2 the City Council awarded a contract to Ernst & Young to conduct an audit of the
solid waste franchise in the City. The City Council also requested that at each Council meeting
there be an update so that the Council may provide input and direction for the audit.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION
Council redefine scope of work for the duration of the project.
Other action as determined by Council.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact generated by this report.
ATTACHMENTS
None.
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Agenda Item:
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February 12, 2001 Addressing: Santa Clarita City Council (business meeting)
Waste Management's refusal to turn over items requested by the auditors, calling them
PROPRIETARY AND PRIVATE highlights how THEY and other PUBLIC corporations are
coming under fire for not opening their books in a TRANSPARENT manner.
This CITY should protect itself from possible problems which Waste Management's refusal to
divulge pertinent information may cause.
On base rates for HOMEOWNERS and BUSINESSES; businesses located in the Santa Clarita
Valley employ over 1/3rd of the residents in this valley. Why are we forced to pay DOUBLE
what businesses in the San Fernando Valley pay for disposal service?
After 35 years we moved our company to Valencia. Now I find that our company is paying more
frugal company!
than DOUBLE for a 3 yard trash bin over what we paid in the San Fern. Valley. We try to be a
We pay $108.00 per month here for trash pickup versus $46.00 in the San Fernando Valley. Both
Waste Management and Atlas are CLOSER to their tip-off(dumping) sites; Chiquita and
Sunshine Landfills!
When will the City Council address this extreme overcharge being foisted on local businesses?
The City SHOULD receive; their $2.00 stipend for roads, etc. while overseeing the trash
companies, but our monthly trash fees are truely exorbitant!
When will the City Council; and local newspapers begin to take a hard look at the fact that there
aren't THREE trash haulers OK'd to do business here NO, ONLY TWO......... WASTE
MANAGEMENT AND ATLAS/CONSOLIDATED! That's restraint of trade to me!
Call a spade a spade, WASTE MANAGEMENT OWNS both Santa Clarita Disposal and Blue
Barrel;...... PLEASE report Waste Management's DBA's as what they are, ALIASES!
ENDORSING
, this 50% overcharge of businesses for trash hauling is criminal!
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