{"id":20469,"date":"2018-12-19T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=20469"},"modified":"2018-12-19T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:46:45","slug":"florissant-city-council-meridian-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=20469","title":{"rendered":"Florissant City Council: Meridian Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florissant Takes Meridian To Task Over Waste Pick Up<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

By Carol Arnett<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"City<\/a>Members of the Florissant City Council had some tough questions for a representative from Meridian Waste at the council meeting last week and are expecting some changes and improvements.<\/p>\n

Derrick Standley came before the council to discuss Meridian\u2019s change from single-stream recycling to dual-stream recycling. He said the change was due to contamination in the single-stream recycling.<\/p>\n

Standley said that he knew about the service problems that the city was having.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love servicing your city and we want to keep your business,\u201d Standley said. \u201cWe recently made some very significant changes in our management. We will improve service.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, council members still had several questions for Standley.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou came before us a few meeting ago,\u201d said Councilman Tim Jones. \u201cWe had questions and you said you\u2019d be back to us the next day, and we\u2019re still waiting.\u201d Jones said that every week, he gets calls from residents saying that their trash was not picked up. He says that on every trash day he drives his ward to see what trash was missed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty bad that on trash day I have to get up and make sure you\u2019re doing your job,\u201d Jones said. \u201cRecycling has nothing to do with trash getting picked up. We pay you for it and have a contract,\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the city normally cites people for putting trash on the side of their house, but several people have said they haven\u2019t had pickup in a while and that is why the trash is piling up. \u201cIf I had a vote today, I\u2019d vote you down the road,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

Councilman Joe Eagan said that he did not drive his ward, but he jogs every day and sees the trash that was not picked up. \u201cI was going down a street in Mr. Jones\u2019 ward and I saw a truck go down the street, get one house, pass two or three, then get another. I\u2019m sick and tired of it.\u201d He added that he also get calls from people who aren\u2019t getting their trash picked up.<\/p>\n

Council President Jeff Caputa said that he realized Meridian would not pick up trash from people who have not paid their bill. \u201cYou have to come and let us know that these people are not paying their bills. We don\u2019t know because payment doesn\u2019t come through us,\u201d He added that not all the people who are missed have late payments. \u201cWe have things to do other than chasing trash trucks,\u201d Caputa said.<\/p>\n

Councilman Robert Parson also said he received calls every week. \u201cThey do resolve problems, but they need to pick up on time. I get people calling that they pay their bills and don\u2019t get pick up for five weeks. Are you doing to credit residents who have paid and not gotten pickup?\u201d<\/p>\n

Standley said that he could not address crediting residents at this time.<\/p>\n

Councilman Tommy Siam asked if Meridian had identified the root problem. \u201cWhat are you going to do to address the problems?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first hour of the day is everything,\u201d Standley said. \u201cWe need to straighten out that first hour of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councilman Gerard Henke echoed the request to see a list of people delinquent on their bills. \u201cIf someone hasn\u2019t paid their bills in six months, we understand that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Councilman Andrew Harris said that many of his residents are missed. \u201cThey will call Meridian and wait patiently,\u201d he said. \u201cOur pickup day is Friday, so a lot of times, they\u2019re told it will get picked up, but it\u2019s still there on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris asked if there are enough trucks and staff in Florissant to do the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have one or two new trucks that will go into service in the next few weeks,\u201d Standley said.<\/p>\n

After the meeting, Mayor Tom Schneider, in an e-mail, said that his \u201cposition is that Meridian has been notified repeatedly that they are in breach of the contract.\u201d He added that Standley has been in charge for less than 60 days. \u201cMy Dad said that we should always \u2018give a guy a fighting chance,\u2019 but we need to observe some immediate and measurably positive results from Meridian in the next month if they intend to be our trash hauler for the remainder of the existing contract.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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