City kicks Emterra to the curb, awards trash contracts to its competitors
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This article was published 26/10/2016 (3341 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Move over Emterra, two new private garbage contractors will be picking up the city’s trash beginning in 2017.
City council voted 10 to six in favour of dumping Emterra Environmental and signing a seven-year contract with two new private contractors at Wednesday’s council meeting.
Mayor Brian Bowman and his six-member executive policy committee voted in favour of the contracts, along with Couns. Scott Gillingham, Cindy Gilroy and Jenny Gerbasi.
Couns. Matt Allard, Shawn Dobson, Ross Eadie, Jason Schreyer, Russ Wyatt, and Devi Sharma voted in opposition.
Continuing with private garbage and recycling collection has been blasted by union reps, who have spent the last month lobbying councillors to look at moving collection in-house.
The public-service recommendation approved by council Wednesday called for the city to sign a seven-year contract with Miller Waste Systems Inc., starting next year at almost $15 million annually for service in the city’s northwest quadrant. A seven-year contract with GFL Environmental Inc. — at $9.7 million per year — will be signed for the southeast quadrant. Emterra also bid on the contract, under its official name Halton Recycling Ltd, but was unsuccessful.
Both new contracts would begin Oct. 1, 2017 and end Jan. 31, 2025.
The recommendation also included a clause suggesting the city look into potentially revising the collective agreement with CUPE — which represents most Winnipeg civic employees — and examine if city workers could deliver garbage and recycling collection at a cost comparable to the private sector. It notes “an innovative option” such as multi-family garbage collection or a compost pilot project could be awarded in-house in the future.
Coun. Brian Mayes, chairman of the water and waste committee, has spent the last month reminding union reps of this clause, touting the city isn’t saying it will say no forever to public waste collection.
kristin.annable@freepress.mb.ca