Jackson Jambalaya

Well, I guess the question then is how much is Chuck going to pocket off of all those 96 gallon carts?

If the Mayor truly wants to keep the cost to residents as low as possible as he claims, why the carts ? It would be much cheaper without the carts. The carts are going to cost the city and its residents another $83,000 a month or almost another $1,000,000 a year. What this guy is doing is so obvious, but yet he thinks we're fools and don't see it.

To the City Council, please, please do not accept this offer from Richards. Reject it, request another bid without carts, sign another 1 year emergency contract if you have to, but don't sign in effect a 10 year deal with Richards. If you have to pay the additional $525,000 EPA fine, so be it. This contract is going to scoo you another $1,000,000 a year.

Is there any story that explains why Waste Management did not submit a bid?

Will we be arrested if we paint obscene messages on our "carts"?

From Section 8

“Contractor shall develop a public education and communication plan with oversight and input from
the City about the transition of services from twice weekly solid waste collection to once weekly
solid waste collection with a cart.”

Does this imply collection will switch to once weekly during the life of the contract?

Fortunately I made a small investment is grease stock a few months ago.

@4:21, where did you get your numbers?

So did the number two company have even one garbage truck, one employee, expertise.......anything? Hello?

Who was on the evaluation committee? Rukia and the gang? Where's that FULL TRANSPARENCY, Prince Chowke?

How much kickback do the committee members receive?

About as transparent as the monthly crimes stats? Right?

You know, in Jackson our garbage pickup cost is on our water bill.
7,000 not paying water bill = 7,000 not paying garbage pickup either. Hmmm

Even the blind man knows the Mayor and his sister are running the garbage contract.

City Counsel---just saying, the legislature has been in session for 3 months now. You knew this was going to happen. At what point did it NOT occur to you to talk to legislators about getting wording changed so you wouldn't be in this shit hole...again. And please don't say no lobbyist.

Was this scheme shrewdly orchestrated by Lumumba, or is this a result of his taking advantage of evolving circumstances? In either case, the city council is between a rock and a hard place, and the citizens are screwed. How much will it cost to citizens per month? And if they cant pay their water bills how arey going to afford increased garbage fees? Is he going to advocate and have his organizations march for free/reduced water service but not free garbage pick up. If the city council votes against Richards, the city will again be without garbage service and subject to fines. Richards will again sue. No reputable company would submit a proposal under these circumstances. As to the submitted contract ... if people can still all use their own trash cans, why include the purchase of 96 gallon cans in the contract? Its a real MESS caused by an inept mayor.

Breaking! One of the members of the evaluation committee has been revealed.

Mr. Ben Dover

Time for Shad to arrest some old ladies in Sunflower and Jones counties!

note, you can only use your own garbage can "UP To 35gallons in size"

I have my own 96 gallon cart, and don't need another. and I see this as only a way to keep a funnel of cash flowing towards a entity that probably does not even exist but on paper

Exactly. Most of the people on my street have 64 gallon Toters. That will wind up being $100 per cart wasted if he has his way. Toter makes a 32 gallon cart but I've yet to see one on the street. Sometimes a 48 gallon. They know exactly what they are doing. They can say oh, we give you choice, but then set the limits to something no one uses. You still have to take the 96 gallon cart.

so let’s hear guesses on what city council does next. Fight or roll over?

I foresee more trash on the streets of Jackson. In the end Lumbo got his way or did he. New reality TV "The Dirtiest City in the South".

If Lumumba gets re-elected then "Jacksonians" should be re-named as "Suckers."

WM wrote the book on rigging garbage bids. The fact that WM is not participating speaks volumes.

Still goes back to my original question in another post, how can the Mayor negotiate a contract that requires us to "buy" something w/o a ordinance that was fully vetted and approved.....

My concern is that my council person is Virgi Lindsey, and well, she will probably vote in favor of a contract negotiated by this Mayor

I'm not all that competent with contract language. Does it require them to pick up the tons of garbage, old tires, couches, mattresses and thrown out furniture scattered from the Clinton city limits all the way to Highway 49, on Cynthia drive. How about the trash Richards scatters out the back of their trucks all the way up and down I-220? who picks that up. I apologize to the readers here for not videotaping the three incidents of this I have seen. Twice a full white kitchen sized trash bag, tumbling out the back of a truck because no one hit the switch to compress it back into the truck.

4:26 pm - WM did not submit a bid because they knew the fix is in so why the fuck waste any more time and money on going after this work? Same reason no other actual company submitted a bid

Unfortunately, whether or not he is re-elected hinges on who/if anybody credible or better will run against him. To find someone with a good business sense, good leadership skills,the ability to get along with and not alienate those in a position to help the city (not the mayor's agenda),and whose motivation is to serve, not be served, will be challenging. So citizens who wish him gone, may not have a choice. Yes, he won his last election, but with a small percentage of people voting. This time around however, many are disgusted with the state of the city and its impact on their quality of life. They just need a viable choice to offer positive change.

At least Jackson residents will be allowed to use alternate garbage cans if they wish. In rural Hinds County, we're stuck with the Waste Management-provided carts and must buy another one if we need it. They won't pick up anything not in their bins.

Interesting waste mgt just said forget it . Did not even submit a proposal. I think we will see more and more of this in the future. Soon, if not already companies will just avoid doing business with the city .

Kingfish - give some clarity on the carts. The Richard’s proposal/Mayor release doesn’t explain very well.

Can residents use their current non-96 gallon cart? Are residents required to use a 96 gallon cart (there was reference to smaller carts).

Please explain.

Old people can’t handle a 96 gallon cart. No way

Let’s put this down where the cows can reach it. The Mayor of Jackson has the power to do whatever he wants with the garbage contract. The only way to end this insanity is at the ballot box. Does anyone care enough? It’s not as hard as most people think. A marginal increase in turnout would do it. Door to door canvassing only requires money but time is running out. He’s vulnerable but getting less so every day.

4:27 - Good catch. Section 5.2 specifies twice a week collection, but I couldn't find anywhere else except section 8 where the "normal" residential collection schedule frequency is enumerated. This is suspicious.

The total cost of 45,000 carts at $96 per cart equals $4,320,000. If this contract with carts is only $83,000 more per month than the existing contract without carts, how is Richard's going to afford 45,000 carts? Finance them? That would explain the fact that Richard's owns the carts for the first 6 years, then, if the city extends the contract, ownership changes to the city.

FYI, if Richard's could get a $4.32M loan at 6 years with 10% interest, payments would be about $80,000 per month.

Did I read correctly that once each week you can have 10 bags of yard trash…when the pine needles/leaves come down one can easily get ten bags…that is way too few also for spring cleanup…I hope this gets negotiated or there are going to be bags just along the curb.

@6:05, the remedy is to burn your leaves and limbs at night so you don’t have to smell the boo boo water surging out of the streets. That’s what is do and it’s been working.

@8:12 PM - That's because of the contract that your county $upervi$ors $igned.

It's gotta be tough keeping your knees intact when your a Mayor.

I'm just guessing here but....The garbage company will use a specialized truck to pick up and dump the garbage cans it supplies to residents. There may only be one person on the truck, the driver remotely operating the lift arm to dump the contents. All waste must be in the can or it will be ignored.
Isn't it illegal for a contract between a private company and a municipality, state or elected official to sign a contract in excess of four years? Think College football coach's contracts.
I'm sure the mayor worded the bid to ensure that only Richard's bid would meet the criteria.

Look, Shockway can't get his hands on sewer and water operations now: he has to double up on garbage contract

I see great failure in the future. These carts will be on eBay.

Someone asked why Waste Management didn’t submit a bid? My guess would be they don’t want to do business with the City. Most contractors I know avoid the City like a plague. They say it’s nearly impossible to do business with them, for starters. Also, folks need to be paid for their work in a timely fashion. With Lumumba at the helm, the City is notorious for not paying its bills. Lumumba’s excuse — software glitches. He’s so full of shit. In the past couple of years and pre-JXNWater, we’ve seen sewer pump trucks get repossessed for nonpayment of monthly leases; purchases of water treatment chemicals get overlooked or ignored; countless other invoices totaling tens of thousands of dollars get lost on someone’s desk or shoved away in a drawer. Incompetence and neglect are not software glitches.

Lumumba cannot or will not tend to the ABC’s of local government. He cannot work the most routine and rudimentary levers of city government. That’s pretty much the job description of a mayor in a nutshell.

I rolled my parents' 64 gal can to the street for them (they live in another city) and it was all I could do to handle that, and I'm a lot stronger and in better shape than they are. I cannot even imagine a 90+ gallon cart. It's going to be a nightmare.

The bigger the cart, the bigger the commission/kickback. Right?

I live on a steep hill. My 50 gallon garbage can is a struggle at times. How in the heck are older people who have difficulty walking going to handle this?

How much with Sistah make off the cans ?

The mayor claims to care most about cost and service to residents, yet it would be much cheaper to opt for a contract without the prescriptive cart requirements (having to either use the Richard's 96 gallon cart or a cart 35 gallons or less with a lid, etc. is essentially a requirement to use Richard's cart).

Everyone on my street has either a 64 gallon trash can or uses smaller trash cans (without lids) for limbs and yard debris. Does the mayor plan to roll out a recycling program for all of our now useless >35 gallon trash cans? If he truly cared about cost first and foremost, he would not have made carts a requirement in the RFP. No fully informed resident wants them, despite what he claims. Unless he's referring to his sister and her minions.

Didn't the RFP have some ridiculous requirement that all vehicles be less than 2 years old, or something to that effect? That and the other overly prescriptive parameters are likely what resulted in only 2 proposals... that and the fact that any reputable company could likely tell that that this RFP was rigged for Richards from the beginning. Why waste the time and resources on responding to an RFP like that?

question:

Lumumba=gabage

or

Ludmumba=garbage!

What size trailer ball do them 96ers take?

The marxist mayor continues to show his arrested development by resorting to sophomoric deceptions to get his way.

The stooges on the city council are too stupid to outsmart Chowke, and he knows it.

Those carts will be sourced in Detroit to ensure that the requisite city hall palms are generously greased throughout the term of the contract. Right?

I saw the article on WLBT today about this. There was a shot of Richards Disposal employees picking trash up off the ground. Calling total bullshit. There are times when they spill garbage and leave it there. They do a shit job and their guys have a shit attitude. I picked up Gatorades during one of the 100 plus degree days last summer to show support and I thought one of the guys was going to punch me out. I believe his words were "I don't give a fuck about no Gatorade". This company sucks just as bad as Lumumba does.

The people of Jackson are not worried about the trash. A drive down the streets of Jackson will show you there is trash scattered all over the city. They chose that way to live. If they want to let the mayor pocket all of the money the city has it is their own choice. Let them live in it.

Use of the carts are not required, yet they're included in the cost of the contract and subsequent increased costs to residents (who Lumumba claims to care so much about)? It makes no common sense,consequently it must be economic sense for some connected vendor. Is awarding the contract contingent on Richards dropping its current lawsuit? If not, David Archie's comment makes him the smarter person the room ... He's right. Who hires someone who is suing you?

After a four hour city council meeting the proposed contract was amended to remove the 45,000 96-gallon carts.

Chowke opposed that amendment.

Gee, I wonder why? Less grease?