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Currently, the sanitary district is charged $71.50 a ton for organics. However, Carroll said CR&R appears to be providing the program in Stanton at no additional cost to that city’s residents.“We believe Stanton is getting their organics recycling program at no cost,” Carroll said Thursday. “Are we entitled to that as well?”Dean Ruffridge, a senior vice president with CR&R, told the sanitary district board that’s not the case.“Nothing is for free in this world — we all know that,” he said. “We never negotiated a lower rate with Stanton for the conversion technology.”According to board documents, CR&R has told the district the charge associated with the program in Stanton is $87.50 a ton.However, Carroll said the sanitary district has not been able to confirm that. In an email Friday, Ruffridge declined to elaborate on the issue.Carroll said he offered to accept a rate of $55.50 a ton for three years, which could save the district more than $450,000 over that time.CR&R rebuffed that idea, he said.Board members said Thursday that they would like more time to study the issue.“We’ve been telling people all along that we were getting a favored rate, and I, for one, would like them to cooperate with that and stand by what they said they’d do,” board Vice President Jim Ferryman said of CR&R. “I’m not sure they’re getting there from what I’m reading here.”Ruffridge told the board, “You do have the most favored price and you always will have that.”The board asked staff — including legal counsel — to look into the matter and return with additional information at a future study session.The district has contracted with CR&R to collect residential trash since 2006 and pays the hauler about $4.1 million a year for services such as curbside and bulky-item pickup and green waste recycling.That annual payment is based on how much trash is collected and how many residences are served.While some issues still need to be ironed out, sanitary district staff and CR&R have agreed on several points in a potential new contact, such as scrapping an “evergreen” clause that essentially required the district to provide six years’ notice before canceling the pact.Both parties have agreed to a fixed term limit... (Los Angeles Times)
MAG Chair and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, in the press release. “If you drive Valley freeways, it won’t take long to see fast-food trash on the side of the road, which illustrates the value of this partnership. Whataburger is giving our mayors an opportunity to deliver this important message to motorists ‘at the source,’ in a way that will resonate.”Along with handing them their order, the mayors will give Whataburger customers educational materials from Don’t Trash Arizona. As a show of solidarity, each of the Valley’s 18 Whataburger locations will display Don’t Trash Arizona window clings at their drive-thru windows to remind drivers that littering comes with a $500 fine.Recent data shows the amount of litter on Valley freeways has been cut in half since the Don’t Trash Arizona program launched in 2006. Still, statistics show that more than 64,000 bags of litter are collected from the Valley’s freeways every year, equal to about 788,000 pounds of trash. Beyond wrappers and cups, other commonly littered items include cigarette butts, food and small papers, the press release stated.The Scottsdale Independent is available for free every Wednesday. (Scottsdale Independent)
Where should Giancarlo Stanton go?”The usual suspects are listed – the Yankees, the Giants, the Chunichi Dragons, Real Madrid – and the $295 million still on his contract is not considered an impediment.But the logic behind the Marlins keeping him is just as clear and more pressing. Namely, Bruce Sherman, the incoming owner, and Derek Jeter, the designated face, did not buy this team and promptly try to make themselves detested by the few people who still care about it.So far, we know that the monstrous thing in center field (no, not Christian Yelich) is likely to be torn down, and that Stanton is don’t-go-to-the-bathroom-during-his-half-inning entertainment. Beyond that, we know only that the Marlins draw when they win a lot and barely at all the rest of the time. They are clearly a distant third in a four-team race with the Dolphins and Heat for people’s hearts, and now that hating Jeffrey Loria’s living guts are off the table for the fans, there really is no there, there.So what’s the up-side of moving Stanton (and before we go any further, the Giants don’t have nearly enough assets to make that work, so cal... (Comcast SportsNet Bay Area)
