It appears New Orleans might throw Richard's Disposal out with the trash. The Times-Picayune reported Thursday:
As Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration finalizes new sanitation contracts covering one half of New Orleans, faltering service in the other half of the city has officials contemplating a change there, too.
Richard's Disposal, which hauls residential trash in Algiers, Uptown and Mid-City, has amassed 4,214 complaints for missed pickups since the beginning of the year, up from 4,003 complaints for all of 2021, a period that includes the sanitation crisis after Hurricane Ida. In 2019, Richard's had just 1,539 complaints, according to city data.
“We continue to be plagued by chronic and extensive service failures in Service Area 1," said the city's sanitation director Matt Torri, referring to the parts of the city served by Richard's, during a City Council committee meeting Thursday. "Obviously this is unacceptable."
Torri said that the administration will decide within the next six weeks whether to rebid the service area handled by Richard's, which has hauled for the city on a contract that's set to expire in 2024.....
New Orleans garbage service started to experience problems when the pandemic hit and collapsed entirely for weeks last year after Ida, when household waste piled up on curbsides throughout the city.... Rest of article.
New Orleans residents are not too happy as they are paying for twice a week service while getting service for once a week.
18 comments:
These are Chowke's palm greasers, soon to be knee cappers, right?
The good mayah of New Orleans, LaToya Cantrell, is facing a recall referendum. It seems the good citizens of the city are unhappy with her majesty's leadership.
As the article above states, when the citizens of New Orleans are unhappy, with a vendor, they move quickly to make a change.
I strongly suggest the good citizens of Jackson adopt this behavior, also. Their passive acceptance of the failures of the current Jackson mayah doesn't convey the seriousness of the mayah's shortcomings.
I am, also, aware of the fact that the Jackson citizens don't have the recall referendum as a viable weapon to show their displeasure. Surely, there are other ways to show their displeasure with the current state of Jackson. Leadership should step to the front.
What a bunch of crooks.
Sad.
(That's worse than many third world countries)
This is the same shit that seems to happen in every democrat controlled city or town across these once United States.
Sounds like trashy service 2 me.
New Orleans might also throw its mayor out with the garbage.
We could only be so lucky.
Richard's needs to be canned.
Whatever happens in New Orleans falls squarely in my I don't give a f--k category.
It is the definitive example of a shithole run by crooks. Always been that way and it will only get worse until one day it will become uninhabitable.
Organized Crime will prevail. Has help coming from DC.
10:28; You might want to reconsider your definition of organized crime. Organized crime has run the city of Jackson for at least five administrations.
Organized crime (regardless of how many times you watched the Elliott Ness series on TV) does not mean men in black cars, dressed in black, wearing black fedoras and carrying black violin cases shooting at each other in the black of night.
Some mayors who embrace organized crime get defeated and become weekend preachers. Some simply get re-elected term after term.
Hadn't RD already lost contracts in other areas of NOLA last year? They still have business in Baton Rouge but their decline situation should give Jackson City Council leverage.
@9:15......you do realize the point of the story is the Richard's Disposal is who is currently Hizzoners pick for our garbage contractor and is currently pickup up trash for free in Jackson, right?
Where is the city council? I'm no legal expert, has/is the council doing all it can? Must the city of Jackson be held hostage by the rogue mayah?
Why, the rogue characterization? He has departed from the normal diplomatic approach of working with the council, to an adversarial position by taking the council to court to achieve what appears to be a personal agenda.
Inquiring minds want to know, is it the mayah's, his way, or the highway rule?
Wake up People. Another City things were working. Nice tourist trip, spent many weekends and dollars there. Now they have a female Chokwe, Crime running wild. lack of cops, Trash screwed up. Just told Mardi Gras they couldnt insure safety. Here we go again. Stay focused people just wamt to have safe places to shop and dine with good roads and basic services. That is Goal number 1
Is there any connection between the mayor of Jackson and Richard's disposal service? Family, old friendship, financial or what? As a citizen of Jackson. I, as well as most of our city population, just want a garbage service that we can depend on in a prudent financial basis.
Seems that New Orleans Dim-O-Krats might be a smidgen smarter than jackson
Dim-O-Krats!!!!!
@12:23
Splittin hairs here aren't we ?
@9:19 Everything you ask for was provided in New Orleans until the Government decided New Orleasn could be run better without the Mafia. Sometimes you get what you ask for.
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