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Altoona City Council to discuss single-hauler garbage collection

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You have permission to edit this article.ALTOONA (WQOW) - Right now, Altoona residents have several choices of a garbage collector, but city officials are considering narrowing it down to just a single-hauler residential garbage collection contract.The city currently has six licensed haulers in an open competition environment, and three of them offer residential service.Each resident can choose their collector and contract directly with them.Altoona City Administrator Mike Golat said some favor having a single-hauler policy because it could potentially reduce the number of heavy trucks damaging local streets and reduce vehicle emissions.Others are concerned about their rates going up."We would want to be locked in for a certain amount of time, minimum of a year, and then we would look to other examples to see how other people have done that fairly to be fair to the provider and to the rate payers," Golat said.Boxx Sanitation is one of the garbage haulers in Altoona, and the company's president and founder Josh Boxx said they do not believe municipal government should take away residents' right to choose their garbage service provider. He said a single-garbage hauler contract would cause negative effects in the marketplace like stifling competition and innovation."You're going to have one winner and three losers," Boxx said. "Maybe four, maybe five losers, whoever bids on the contract. &nbsp;You have jobs at stake. You have people's businesses at stake and often times the big motivator behind this is, 'We're going to save money. &nbsp;We're going to save money.' &nbsp;You're not going to save money."Residents interested in giving their input can join a on Thursday, February 11 at 5 p.m.Golat said this issue does not affect commercial customers and that a formal decision will not be made at the workshop.© Copyright 2022 , 5545 Hwy 93 Eau Claire, WI&nbsp;| &nbsp;|Powered by from .

You have permission to edit this article.ALTOONA (WQOW) - Right now, Altoona residents have several choices of a garbage collector, but city officials are considering narrowing it down to just a single-hauler residential garbage collection contract.The city currently has six licensed haulers in an open competition environment, and three of them offer residential service.Each resident can choose their collector and contract directly with them.Altoona City Administrator Mike Golat said some favor having a single-hauler policy because it could potentially reduce the number of heavy trucks...

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