{"id":3436,"date":"2013-05-15T09:35:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2013-05-29T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:17:32","slug":"trash-lawsuit-on-walb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/trash-lawsuit-on-walb-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Trash lawsuit on WALB"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nWALB found the Lowndes County government sticking to the letter of its own recently-passed\r\nordinance and contract, and Deep South Sanitation\r\nconcerned about the county trying to put it out of business.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nLydia Jennings wrote for WALB yesterday,\r\n\r\nLowndes Co. files lawsuit against solid waste company<\/a>,\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nLowndes County leaders are going to court to try to stop a\r\nsanitation company from picking up trash for some county residents.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nCounty leaders say Deep South Sanitation is in violation of a new\r\nordinance that only allows Advanced Disposal to contract with county\r\nresidents.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAnd if the cease-and-desist order is successful, the owner of Deep\r\nSouth Sanitation worries he’ll go out of business.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nCary Scarborough owns Deep South Sanitation, a family owned and\r\noperated business he started in 2011 when he saw trash pickup\r\nproblems in unincorporated Lowndes County.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nIn two years, he has seen his business grow with 800 Lowndes County\r\nresident contracts. But his days of picking up trash could be coming\r\nto an end.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“It could shut me down,” said Scarborough.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nSo why did the county give him a business license?\r\nAnd why is it a good use of taxpayer funds to sue him?\r\nThe county’s answer:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n“Based on the limits on the ordinance and the contract that the\r\ncounty currently has with Advanced Disposal, it only allows for one\r\ncompany to pick up residential waste in Lowndes County,” said\r\nLowndes County Clerk, Paige Dukes.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nWhich\r\n\r\nordinance<\/a> and\r\n\r\ncontract<\/a> the county passed\r\n\r\nagainst the wishes of the people<\/a>\r\nthey affect\r\n\r\nin the unincorporated parts of the county<\/a>.\r\nThe county wouldn’t even consider a tax district to support\r\nthe county’s own waste collection sites, but now it’s using\r\nour tax dollars to enforce a monopoly we didn’t want,\r\nenforcing it on behalf of investors in New York City.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nBefore the ordinance was passed several solid waste companies were\r\nable to bid on the contract. Advanced Disposal was chosen on its\r\nproposal to charge county residents about $13 a month for pick-up\r\nservices. Scarborough says his company isn’t big enough to take on a\r\ncounty-wide contract. “There’s no way I could have bid against\r\nthat.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nAnd there’s no way ADS’s rates are going to stay that low, either.\r\nWatch and see how fast they go up, especially if DSS is put out of business.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nThe suit will be heard in court June 4th. \r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n\r\nLowndes County Superior Court<\/a>\r\ndoesn’t seem to have\r\n\r\nanything online<\/a>\r\nabout this case, but WALB found the hearing notice,\r\nwhich says it’s Civil Action File No. 2013-CV-862.\r\nMaybe the judge will throw out not just this lawsuit,\r\nbut also the monopoly contract the county signed.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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