Jackson Lord Protector Chokwe Antar Lumumba issued the following statement.
The declaration comes as the city’s garbage contract is set to expire April 1, and negotiations to approve the winning contract with Richard’s Disposal have been unsuccessful. A majority of the City Council has voted against Richard’s Disposal, who won the bidding process in accordance with the law, and have provided no reasonable or compelling reasons for doing so.
The refusal to approve the top-rated contract puts the City in legal jeopardy.
Waste Management, whose bids did not win out in the last two Request for Proposal processes, is currently the City’s provider after a separate local emergency was declared in September.
Without a contract in place, the City will have no means to collect garbage from residences and businesses potentially leading to a public health issue. The failure to properly collect and dispose of garbage could expose the City to civil penalties of up to $25,000 a day and other legal action by the state environmental arm, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
The Mayor, who exercises the executive powers of the municipality, has the sole authority to issue an emergency order.
“It is unfortunate we are at this point,” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said. “My administration has worked overtime to explain every step of the process in what is normally a routine contract bidding process.”
“There’s no dispute that Richard’s won fair and square and would also save the City millions of dollars over the course of the contract, retain twice a week pickup with a cart and bring good-paying jobs to Jackson,” said Lumumba. “The only question now is how much legal exposure the City could face.”
If an agreement cannot be reached, the City intends to pursue a separate contract for garbage collection until a new contract is legally procured. The emergency order is effective immediately and will be brought before the City Council at its next meeting.
Kingfish note: Here is the key part of the order that was not included in the press release:Whereas, in order to combat the dangers to the public health that will arise if residential garbage remains uncollected for six months or longer (KF: six months?). while the City attempts to procure a contract for the collection of residential solid waste in accordance with Section 31-7-13(r), the Mayor intends to contract on an emergency basis with Ricard's Disposal, Inc. for the collection of residential solid waste beginning on April 1, 2022, continuing for period of one year or the procurement of a permenant contract complying with the requirements of Section 31-7-13(r).
93 comments:
Pretty sure the emergency powers don't come into play when the mayor creates the emergency. What a crook that guy is!
I cant wait for the Mayor and the democrats to expose the racists of Jackson in the national spotlight. And that includes KKKingfish who hasn’t made much of an effort to acknowledge Black History Month but instead throws his feces at the African-American leadership of the City of Jackson.
I did it my way!
how does his scrawny neck support his ego?
It's only an "Emergency" when the mayor doesn't get what he wants. This guy is a literal dictator. Isn't this the second fake emergency over garbage? dude MUST be getting paid to force these people down our throats....
That boy is a joke
Basically asking the council "Who run Bartertown?".
The I-55 frontage road from Northside Dr. to County Line, especially on the west side, is totally covered in trash. It looks just lovely. Soon all the residential neighborhoods will look identical. We all know what's going to happen here, now don't we?
Hope the Council sues His Highness with outside council.
Shit is literally spewing into my neighbor's yard from a clogged sewer main, and now trash, our one remaining city service that works and that no one complains about, is about to change to a "better" provider. A helluva week.
I am still lost as to why the Board is not on the same page if Richard's won the bid. Do we know what their beef is? I feel like the Mayor sucks and he's got to go and that there is a reason he is pushing so hard...but what is it?
We are watching Rome burn in slow motion.
As the person who commented that this was inevitable in an earlier thread, I would like to make a statement to those who doubted my prediction:
Nanner nanner boo-boo. Stick your head in doo-doo.
(I hear it's plentiful there)
And if you ever want help from the burbs, feel free to create a committee that includes some of OUR voices and suggestions without your elected moron/thieves solely calling the shots.
Until then, enjoy your leaders.
1:16 is a troll.
Please don't feed him.
If Richards "won" the contract it is likely because a subjective steerable request for proposals (RFP) was used instead of an objective bid.
This is what is commonly done at the airport, and other places, in order to influence those scoring the proposals into skewing toward who the board wants for whatever reason and hiding their role.
RFP - think Ouija Board.
1:34 CROOKED MONEY, he has bills to pay
Money money money....MONEY.
Never be surprised when a Marxist acts like a Marxist.
He’s the worst!!! An emergency my a$$… lumumba created this and people see that
No emergency unless the Council agrees. We've seen this before.
Is the mayor’s tactic legal? What a mess!
Boy mayor continues boy mayoring. Have fun living among your trash, white-guilters!!!
Will "Chairwoman" Virgi roll over to King Lumumba with this nonsense? If you do, dont ever tell me or my neighbors in Belhaven again about "fairness." This makes our entire city look bad, stand up to this man for a change!
Never let a crisis go to waste. Straight out of the democrat playbook.
So Richard's for a year w/ provided can?
In Richard's Disposal home of New Orleans, 24 out of 25 YELP comments gave them a 1 star out of 5, only because a minus 5 wasn't available.
Their typical comments included variations on: "Would not answer phone" "Finally answered phone, said they would come get neglected garbage, never did" "Richards ran over huge garbage can, never replaced it" "City said call Richard's, not the City because locked into contract", "Garbage workers are surly, rude", "Garbage was picked up two weeks late" ...
Imagine the horrors we are facing with a NOLA "Dick-n-Dump" crew.
Council: Please sue mayor NOW! Start a recall NOW!
Choke could murder puppies on the steps of the Capitol and his people would hail him a savior for solving the animal shelter crisis.
None of this matters.
He is loved for his skin tone. Not his ability to govern.
And he would easily win reelection today, tomorrow and any day he wants it.
According to this mayor an emergency currently exists, that is why Waste Management is still handling the garbage pickup, now he says an emergency exists again but now we need Richard's to handle garbage. It's the same emergency being extended, so why not extend Waste Management under the emergency declaration for one year until he can give Richard's another
bite at the apple? Obviously this mayor whose mantra is "transparency"
and "radical cooperation" is just another jive-ass politician who manipulates legal technicalities to suit his purpose. "The ends justify the means."
Jackson has many emergencies - most recently, a failed 911 service that was useless in helping prevent a beautiful Murrah High School student from taking her life. But reliabe garbage collection is not one of those emergencies.
So now he is worried about the MDEQ while snubbing his nose at the EPA. Got it. State environmental agencies trump federal environmental agencies.
"The failure to properly collect and dispose of garbage could expose the City to civil penalties of up to $25,000 a day and other legal action by the state environmental arm, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality."
Since WHEN is that a concern to the boy-mayor. He thumbs his nose at state and federal agencies every passing day. He gives not one whiff of one shit about threats of fines and penalties. The boy is bullet proof.
This order is dated February 10, which was the date the mayor was going to bring this contract before the council for the third time, but then pulled it from the agenda after coming back from executive session. In other words, the mayor was going to try to get council approval of the contract but then decided to issue this proclamation instead.
And another thing! Lumumba keeps claiming that Richard's "won" the bidding process, but if you look at the scores previously posted on 2/1, they reflect that Richard's came in dead last of all three bids in every single metric other than price. Last in "innovative approach," last in "plan for performing," last in "experience," last in "qualifications of personnel," last in "references," even last in "equal business opportunity." The only way they "won" the bid was by being cheap. Plain and simple. Even then, the only service category they "won" was the twice-per-week-plus-cart category with a score of 81.8, as compared to the 79.95 score of the company with the highest scores in experience, qualifications, and references, and the 81.09 score of the company with the highest rated innovating approach and plan for performing.
Why on earth is our major so hell-bent on changing to the least qualified and least experienced option, when garbage pickup is one of the only things in Jackson that isn't currently broken?
3:10, Richard’s also didn’t adhere to its contractural twice weekly pickup in New Orleans, to the point the city let an emergency contract to clean up what Richard’s didn’t, and now the City of New Orleans will begin charging residents the twice-per-week rate but provide only once-per-week service. Blown out roads, violence and mayhem, non potable water, dysfunctional 911 dispatch, and now impending collapse of the trash pickup system. It’s an awful situation in Jackson and hurts our entire state. It especially hurts the people who can’t afford to leave the city.
This is what the cousilman ask for in meeting for the cheapeast bid for two day pick up. Most people who common on this page do not care about Jackson are those of us who live here.
“Council: Please sue mayor NOW! Start a recall NOW!
February 17, 2022 at 2:28 PM”
Nobody’s going to do a door to door recall campaign in Jackanistan
The voters that elected Antar and those that didn't even vote are getting exactly what they deserve.
"Choke could murder puppies on the steps of the Capitol and his people would hail him a savior for solving the animal shelter crisis."
Uh, you do know that the murder of the puppies to address the animal shelter crisis has already happened, don't you?
When the smoke clears, all of this will be exposed (in litigation, I hope) as a scheme to sell garbage cans and reduce scheduled pickups to once a week. BTW, Richard's Disposal services only part of NOLA and Algiers and was unable to keep enough trucks and crews rolling to maintain the twice-weekly pickups called for in the contract. Just run an internet search for this outfit and you will see.
It makes not a whit or a tiddle what he does or doesn’t do. He can do whatever he wants to and they will re-elect him
2:29pm nailed it.
The only logical reasons:
1. WM is not white enough.
2. Kickbacks.
Jackson, you're getting exactly what you voted for.
Travel deep into west Jackson on a Saturday afternoon and just look at the grocery store parking lots covered in trash and filth and note the dirtied diapers, among other filth. A certain demographic apparently isnt bothered by this. Totally content to wallow in filth and garbage. If this is "racist", well, then so be it. It is what it is. It's a "fact". "Fact check it" this weekend, if you wish. I occasionally do since I find it somewhat amazing.
"A majority of the City Council has voted against Richard’s Disposal, who won the bidding process in accordance with the law, and have provided no reasonable or compelling reasons for doing so."
The first bidding process was won by Waste Management. The mayor then unilaterally and illegally changed the contract term from six years to one year. The subsequent bidding process, therefore, was not "in accordance with the law."
if you take this press release, and apply this language to the city of Jackson water system.......is the mayor then therefor the biggest hypocrite walking?
Waste Management is in a win-win. With Richards selected over them, WM will win in court and get paid whatever they would have made over the life of the contract - plus legal fees. Watch. WM is smiling all the way to court (and the bank).
https://www.northsidesun.com/columns-local-content-opinion/opinion-richards-disposal-won-bid-garbage-contract-fair-and-square-so#sthash.eoik7VIJ.dpbs
With the water and sewer service already screwed up why not a campaign to "Flush dat garbage" and hand out FREE disposals for sinks. Of course there might need to be a FAQ somewhere on how to handle used tires properly, but maybe MDEQ can give them some input on that.
Contrary to those in this forum who assign 'just deserts' to mayoral election voters and non voters, the City Council is also elected and represents inhabitants of Jackson and has a duty to beat down the radical corrupt aspect of this desperate, spoiled boy mayor, as well as to investigate his motives for over-lording the City Council's expressed will of the people of Jackson.
Heard they had NOLA and Baton Rogue as clients. Wonder how much influence Organized Crime is at play here. Ever been to a clean NOLA or Baton Rogue. I go to or through both at least twice monthly. I haven't seen a clean one yet. I guess at least it's not a Detroit connected group.
https://www.bbb.org/us/la/new-orleans/profile/garbage-removal/richards-disposal-inc-0985-18010331
Jackson is a shit hole already. Leaving garbage out to rot on the streets is just another thing people in Jackson will learn to enjoy. It will not be that much different than it is now. Actually the people will enjoy just throwing their trash out in their front yard.
Why should the people not living in Jackson care? They do not have to put up with Jackson. Let the people live in trash and sewer water. It is what they want. Let them enjoy their roll in the garbage.
Apparently some of those knee-breakers from NOLA paid a visit to his nibs which motivated him.
Why and what was wrong with Current company? Were they not the right color? That’s what it seems like to me
Anybody else think that the April 1 date for this to start couldn’t be more perfectly fitting.
3:59 drive down 220 from top to bottom and you will not find a filthier stretch of interstate in America. Trash is everywhere and horrible. People live like pigs because they always have and the don't see it in the same lens as those raised differently.
This is going to be fun! The mayor has declared an emergency because his choice was not approved. So, instead of submitting another bidder the mayor declares an emergency, sign a contract with the contractor voted down, and says that that contractor will be doing the work until the council approves a contract. You think the mayor is going to present a contact for any other bidder during the emergency. I think hopefully a judge will see what the mayor is trying to do. If a mayor doesn’t get his way he just declares an emergency so as either circumvent a council’s decision or force the council to reconsider. I just hope the council has the opportunity to vote on th declaration and vote it down. In any event, how much more does anyone need to see just how smelly this whole deal between Richards and the mayor is?
Politics aside it’s pretty easy. Council can pass a resolution that is beyond the Mayors veto ability. Crisis solved. Sadly they don’t have the gumption.
3:59 Are you bothered by dirty diapers or filth in a grocery store parking lot? I am. I am very much bothered. No less than you. But I am probably part of the "demographic" that you think is not bothered. Perhaps you cannot understand this. If you can't, then yes, you are racist. I can't clean up every dirty diaper or trash bin that I see any more than you but I will not blame you for that. Don't blame me, or my "demographic".
This is dripping with corruption. I thought a serious kickback must be in play for such a lazy mayor to put so much effort into shoehorning his incompetent trash collector into this contract. But the longer this drags on, the more desperate the mayor is getting. He seems scared of what might happen to him if he fails to deliver the contract as promised...
Council needs to vote down emergency
Keep WM in place for 12 months
Hire separate counsel to file claim v Mayor and Richards and discover the reason why mayor is so hot to hire Richards.
I believe when a motorist traveling I-55 calls 911 several times when he notices a young lady in the process of jumping off a bridge and the 911 calls he made ARE NOT ANSWERED, then that's a tragic emergency compared to a garbage contract emergency. If JPD doesn't have enough staff to answer a 911 call, then the Mayor needs to focus his attention elsewhere throughout the city instead of a bogus garbage contract that only he wants approved. Like others have previously stated in these comments, the garbage with Waste Management is the ONLY thing that is somewhat working in the Mayor's city. May that young lady rest in peace while the rest of the Mayor's city goes to hell.
Where does Richards have approval to dispose of what they pick up?
So Richard's who has no workers or drivers or mechanics and no trucks and no garage or a transfer station and I sure hasn't got the large garbage cansis gonna start in a little over a month eh?
637 - if only it was that easy. Council can pass a resolution, and so??
Council cannot bring up another contract to be considered - not in the current form of government
Council can probably take the Mayor to court and argue that he doesn't have the authority to declare a state of emergency over his own creation.
Council cannot extend the current WM contract - or renew it - without the Mayor bringing the contract to the Council
But - the Mayor cannot act as a dictator, as he is wont to do, by just doing whatever he wants whenever he can't get four votes out of the seven member council. They have a role to play in this idiotic chaos, and are playing that role. Its the boy Mayor that doesn't understand that he can't insist on his way or the highway.
The interesting thing would be if council refused to approve the claims docket if and when Richards Disposal picks up some garbage, claiming the contract was not valid. The requirement that any payment must be approved by the Council does exist in this form of government - wonder if the Mayor has considered how those NOLA folks would react if they pick up his trash but don't get paid.
Also issued a statement that he has now declared himself Czar of Jackson and will be dismissing the City Council as ineffective. He will be appointing a new group that is more attuned to his leadership and objectives. He has a trip planned to Havana to explore their progress as an example of a city and government for Jackson.
Also issued a statement that he has now declared himself Czar of Jackson and will be dismissing the City Council as ineffective. He will be appointing a new group that is more attuned to his leadership and objectives. He has a trip planned to Havana to explore their progress as an example of a city and government for Jackson.
Lynn Fynch needs to get involved and figure out why the mayor is soooo desperate to give a multimillion dollah contract to Richards in Néw Orleans
Hey Mayor Chalkline, Them Richards Disposal trucks do not run on clean fuel. Richard's Disposal truck run on that dirty diesel unlike them clean looking WM trucks running on natural gas. Mayor Chalkline wants to kill the people of Jackson with them dirty Richard's Disposal trucks.
If 8:59 is correct, and I hope he is, he wins the prize for the most intelligent comment posted on this subject.
So the mayor is more interested in making sure he gets his kickback from Richard's, than working towards getting 911 restored to where someone will actually answer! Waste Management is doing a very good job now and doesn't need to be replaced.
A 15 year old girl jumping off a bridge because 911 would not answer makes the mayor look like what he is: someone who only wants the office of mayor to feel important, powerful, and able to work backroom deals. SHAME on you Mr. Mayor.
Ok. So what happens when the city council doesn’t authorize payment under the new “contract” over concerns of liability under Sections 31-7-55 and 57? Another emergency is declared? Last time I looked, the Miss. Constitution still provided for a State Auditor to “correct” problems like this. It will take some time, but it will be fun to watch.
I already had a negative view of Richard's business after digging into them some, but, if they actually agree to start collecting the garbage under this emergency the Mayor has created, you definitely know they are not a legitimate, serious business.
If I'm running Richard's, I'm bowing out and won't no part of not getting paid when I don't have the blessing of the City Council.
While mention of the trash on all grass areas on I-220 is accurate, I believe maintenance of that right of way (some demographics call it 'right away') is the responsibility of the DOT, not the City of Cush and not the boy-mayor who paints his beard with boot-black.
KF, when you see a black man in a position of power (I know it burns your empty soul), put some respect on his name.
He is the MAYOR and you will address him as MAYOR.
If the council doesn't sue for injunctive relief then the mayor can use the "emergency declaration" to get whatever he wants when the council doesn't approve any contract he wants.
This is slippery slope if the council doesn't stand up to this type of arrogant behavior.
i read the northside sun opinion piece lord mayor wrote. he’s comes across as arrogant and self serving. just think what the next mayor will
have to clean up. literally and figuratively..
Can't wait to see that new Bentley.
Common sense screams this can't be done by the first. The state can do nothing ?
If Choke was white the national media would be in Jackson. Today.
A child commits suicide and 911 cant be bothered...while the corrupt white mayor crowbars a horrible deal that nobody needs all to avoid getting dumped into the Mississippi with a new pair of concrete Timberlands on.
It is absolute idiocracy that the SJW are letting poor minorities drown in crime and filth in the name of virtue signaling.
The ones with brains and means left.
What an odd time to be alive.
Word on the street is Angelique Lee on the wrong side of Ward 2 on this issue. Screwed up garbage pickup undoubtedly a big deal next election.
8:14. Who are you to tell anyone how he will refer to a person. Come to think of it, who are you to speak in a peremptory way to anyone about anything?
The Mayor of Jackson told the truth in Northsun. He has meeting with residents of Jackson asks the council things the what in a contract, the council ask for the cheapest for two days a week. He is fellow state law the hate for one person in which the council make the final decision on how money is spent.
8:14, the correct term is boy clown trying to play mayor.....
Toke on that liberal loony!!!!!
Now go back to your little safe place and let the tears roll...
Whoever 8:14 is,he needs to be re-schooled, because he clearly doesn't understand the definition of mayor: A mayor's duties and responsibilities may be to appoint and oversee municipal managers and employees, provide basic governmental services to constituents, and execute the laws and ordinances passed by a municipal governing body (or mandated by a state, territorial or national governing body).
This so called clown playing mayor strikes out on two of the responsibilities right off the bat.
The Drake imitator is almost as funny and fuk'd up as Carlos the clown....put them in a bag, shake it up and dump it and you could tell the difference in who falls out first.
Also understand your directions of "You Will" doesn't count as it's apparent you're just boot-lick'n him trying for one of those high paying "no responsibility" jobs for unqualified Dim-O-Krats....
8:12 am, The trash along I 220 did not grow there. It was thrown out of the cars driving on the road. Just like they do their own house and yard, they trashed the road. Why would anyone think the roads would be any different than the city is?
This is not a normal time.
Council should meet and vote the emergency down.
They did it before.
If the mayor objects and sues to enforce his edict then discovery can be had of all reasons for this contract.
Separately someone in the AGs office should begin to inquire of Richards and all terms which have been negotiated.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures and chancery court allows for equitable remedies.
The statement from the boy clown's lackey (ole 8:14) failed to included an all important word and that word would be: COMPETENT !!!
"i read the northside sun opinion piece lord mayor wrote. he’s comes across as arrogant and self serving. just think what the next mayor will
have to clean up. literally and figuratively.."
He's the smartest guy in the room - just ask him. The guy doesn't have a humble bone in his body, he constantly doubles down on ridiculous subjects like the Zoo, and is the most arrogant prick you'll ever be around. It's a shame because he really is a bright guy, but he just won't let the arrogance go. The State Legislature would be way more apt to help if he would attempt to work with them, cut out the racism garbage every time they disagree, and have a serious working relationship. But, we all know he isn't in it for improving Jackson. He just wants name recognition for higher elected offices and unfortunately the media will be knocking down your door for interviews when you scream Racism! enough.
@12:38 Good reasoning.
Richard's is unpopular in online judgments in NOLA, imagine how despicable they will be in Jackson, which they will treat like an out-house. Is boy mayor being blackmailed or leaned on or does he just hate WM because they are professional, dependable and make this mayor's act a donkey show by comparison?
Discovery documents could be enlightening, Council please sue this creep.
@ 8:14
hahahahahahaha.... how in the hell do you think you can demand that? Respect is earned, not granted by position except for military....what an ass
Infuriating and illegal! What a little manipulator! Can the Council simply ignore the little dictator and conduct adult business?
February 17, 2022 at 1:31 PM regarding highway trash - same from Fortification to the bridge into Downtown, including tires! His Mayorness passes by all of this every time he decides to grace City Hall with his presence.
February 17, 2022 at 1:16 PM You have serious, serious issues, and they're coming from inside your head.
February 18, 2022 at 8:14 AM I'll add some more hahahahahahas! Are you freaking kidding? This man charading as a leader has lost all respect he ever had.
@8:14 AM
Your a troll bc no one is so dumb to believe what you are saying…the mayor is a public servant and lives on our money. I know him his kid is in private school with my child
all of y'all need to stop being surprised anytime Chowkey, or any other democrat marxist, does anything that is not in the best interest of their constituents, city, county, state, or country. it's how they operate, it's all part of the plan. how do you expect them to rebuild everything we know and love into their dreamland utopia of fascistic socialism? you can't rebuild something until it's been destroyed. everything they touch, turns to shit. prove me wrong, cause i would actually like to be proven wrong on this. death, destruction, chaos, and mayhem; the democrat marxist mantra.
is it incompetence, is it indifference, or is it intentional? the answer is yes, cause it's all three in equal parts. there is no way these people can fuck something up so bad, that was working before, unless they have no clue what they're doing, doing it on purpose, and don't care how it negatively affects people. if they knew what they were doing, only had an occasional misstep, and cared about the citizenry, then we wouldn't be on this rocket-ship straight to hell, being piloted by a bunch of degenerate leftist democrat marxists.
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