Jackson Jambalaya

Everyone should just take their trash to the hotel at Ellis & 80 and burn it. Homeless will be warm, no trash contract and eventually the hotel will burn up and won't have as much to clear off for all the new businesses fighting to come to Jacktroit.

The Mayor is really demonstrating that getting this contract for Richard’s Disposal is a life or death situation
…for HIM!

I am guessing he provided some grease for the rest of the council.
Or maybe some blackmail? Perhaps threats of violence from the armed thug militias who freely roam the city?

Stokes is the canary. If he votes yes then we know that vote it didn’t come cheap.

1:34 : Your last sentence ....perfect it was....true it will be.

The little boy always gets his way-

If only the mayor worked as hard on issues like crime or homelessness or drugs or littering or deadbeats paying utility bills or fixing infrastructure.

Who did the council hire as legal representation and wonder if they'll be there?

"[T]he City Attorney told the City Council last week that a line was removed from the contract so it would not be voting on the same contract for a third time."

The mayor finally found a city attorney who will roll over completely for him, just like he did with police chiefs. It may be for a judge to ultimately rule on whether that any vote approving the contract at this point is in fact a legal vote.

Pssst, Virgi. The mayor probably will not back your Belhaven initiative in exchange for your vote on the waste contract. You are being used. Even if he does back you, it isn't worth it.

if waste management would just understand that rolls royce cars are always in need of repair. someone needs to keep it on the road..

@1:34 PM's last sentence is spot on. If Stokes rolls over will the last person leaving Jackistan please turn off the lights. Don't bother with the water and sewage, as they are already turned off.

The mayor hasn't been up front with the city council about water & sewer system repairs, EPA orders or anything else. Why would any council members on the fence trust him with a garbage collection contract?

Maybe his honor dumped all the trash on 220 from hwy 49 to I20, to show that WM is doing a bad job. What a disgraceful mess.

Seems they have special rules for special people, but nothing new here, democrats in action!

The good thing is this circus only affects the people with houses and businesses in Jackson. The sad thing is this affects the people with houses and businesses that couldn't afford to leave or thought the Titanic (aka Jackson) could actually be saved from sinking.

This has to be an April Fools joke. Right?

I seem to remember the last vote was 3-3-1 with Banks abstaining. Foote, Stokes and Hartley voted against. I don't think either of those 3 are going to change their vote/position. That makes Banks the Bag Man. The Bag Man that just stole your privilege to put your garbage in a bag in order to tie you to a 96 gallon cart. For the next 6 years and more.

And that my friends is the bottom line.

I’ll get this out of the way for when this is inevitable approved: If you have the means to leave Jackson, and stayed anyway, you chose this. Good luck.

City already lost some serious court case carrion to an associate of Richard's Disposal. Now boy mayor invites the vulture back for the bones?

Yelp has about 25 customers dumping on Richard's failure to pick up trash and not answering phone calls. Richard's D. Averages 1.5 stars on Yelp where most would have given a minus 5 if available.

This dump of an outfit will be worse in Jackson.

This will happen.
And the M-Bar crimepatheater will happen too.

And as 9:16 said the ones who stayed and paid taxes to fund this continued corruption get no sympathy.

Can you really remove one sentence from a contract and then bring it back before the board again claiming it is a new contract? This doesn't seem right.