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With contract negotiations at an impasse, Costa Mesa Sanitary District board members decided Thursday to further study the sticking points before deciding how to proceed with CR&R Environmental Services, the district’s trash hauler. Though several items have been hashed out since the district opened contract renegotiation talks with CR&R in February, several disagreements have kept a deal from being struck.Probably the most contentious item, according to sanitary district General Manager Scott Carroll, is the district’s organics recycling program.Under that program, which began in 2015, CR&R collects waste such as garden clippings and food scraps and converts them to renewable natural gas at an anaerobic digestion facility in Perris.Carroll said the sanitary district was the first agency in Orange County to commit to that facility and, as a result, negotiated a clause in its contract to guarantee it would receive the lowest anaerobic digestion fee in the county.Should CR&R negotiate a lower rate elsewhere, t... (Los Angeles Times)
The rap music that bumps through the speakers surrounding the Chargers’ practice field at the Jack Hammett Sports Complex in Costa Mesa has been edited for content.Chargers cornerbacks and receivers have not.The jawing between some of the team’s best trash talkers continued to ramp up Monday with Keenan Allen and the rest of the wideouts outperforming the defensive backs. In the camp’s first practice, the cornerbacks and safeties outperformed the offense.“We’re all so competitive,” cornerback Casey Hayward said. “The wide receivers and the DBs, we’re probably the two most competitive groups on the field. When we’re going one-on-one, we want to win bad.“And, if we win, we trash talk the rest of the day.”It’s easiest to be enamored with the Allen-Hayward, Tyrell Williams-Craig Mager and other cornerback-wideout battles. With the team not wearing pads until Tuesday, the best and truest evaluations can be made on the outside in those one-on-ones.“It doesn’t change for us — pads or no pads,” wide receiver Travis Benjamin said.The competitions will get even tougher when cornerback Jason Verrett comes off the physi... (The San Diego Union-Tribune)