Let's Talk Trash

Almost daily I read in the paper that people are having trouble with Shawnee's trash service.

The city commission has asked Toni Gray to keep track of complaints that are called into the city about the trash service. Despite almost daily complaints in the paper, we have been averaging only about 2 complaints a week to Toni. If your trash doesn't get picked up properly, please call Toni at 214 4243 so we can have a record of it. We can't deal with contract issues without records of complaints.

Allied notified us last week that they have changed managers and we are hopeful this will make a positive difference in the service they are providing.

I had to laugh when my opponent wrote that he would have stayed with BFI instead of choosing Allied. Most people know that Allied bought out BFI before the trash contract went out for bid. BFI no longer exists. Shawnee, followed the city charter and chose the lowest bidder. We want to keep costs down for our customers.

My opponent also said that he would have kept the Earlsboro dump open. The trash dump is not owned by the city and the city has no control over which dump the contractor uses. I'm surprised my opponent doesn't know that.