Boyd Wisconsin has a new contract with Waste Management, approved at the Dec. 8 regular board meeting.
The five-year contract as approved sets rates at $15.50 for a 96 gallon trash bin, $15 for a 65 gallon bin, $14.50 for a 35 gallon bin, and a senior rates of $9 for a 32 gallon cart. The biweekly recycling rate is $5.85, with recycling paid on water bills and garbage billed individually.
Also included in the Waste Management contract are three 30 yard containers for spring and fall cleanup, including delivery, disposal, and tonnage, a 20 yard container for Ringelspiel Days, and containers and bins at Lotz Park and the village hall.
Village President Bob Geist laid things out to the assembled board prior to decision.
"So our contract for garbage and recycling is up at the end of the year," he said. "We have a couple folks here to give a presentation. Waste Management's the first on the pile."
Waste Management Public Sector Representative Tim Miller got up to address the board.
"Mr. President, village trustees, I appreciate the opportunity to come in and talk about the service we can provide to the residents of the village of Boyd," he said. "We've been collecting for quite a while in the village of Boyd. We've been around for quite a while, actually since I was born. We have locations in every state, it gives us a pretty large sample size for identifying needs in the industry.
We try to stay ahead of industry trends to improve our service levels. We do have the onsite in Eau Claire, which is a local hauling site. It's a local company with the resources of a nationwide organization backing it. We have about 50 employees working there, with a service infrastructure to maintain high levels of service. Smart truck technology, we have cameras on the trucks to verify cart's out, cart's not out. The material that's going in. We have a couple tracker programs that are available, lamp tracker, battery tracker. We try to avoid batteries getting into the trash order cycle, they do tend to cause fires. As far as the recycling, we do have an upgraded MERF, which is the material recovery facility. We're always reinvesting back into our programs to improve recycling and improve service. It does allow for better sorting so we can in turn increase volume, which in turn hopefully increases tonnage for the grant that the village receives."
With that Miller gave a bid for Waste Management services.
"We've put together a bid that I think gives the residents in Boyd the best fit for continued great service without disruption of changing haulers." The bid as given by Miller included a 96 gallon trash bin at $15.50 and 65 gallons at $15 and 35 gallons at $14.50, as well as a senior rates for a 32 gallon cart at $9. Biweekly recycling as quoted by Waste Management was $5.85, the village including 237 households.
"I did want to point out that pricing includes all the bullet points at the bottom there," he said in reference to the bid sheet, including three 30 yard containers for spring and fall cleanup, including delivery, disposal, and tonnage, along with a 20 yard container for Ringelspiel Days in May and containers and bins at Lotz Park and the village hall.
"The pricing that I laid out does include those, and the proposal was mentioned for changing the billing," he said. "Right now we individually bill each resident for trash, but recycling is the village." Changing the billing procedure for trash would drop rates by a dollar each, Miller said.
"If trash was billed by the village and not to each individual resident, those trash rates would drop a dollar each," he said. Miller said the new rate had gone up by approximately two dollars.
"The old agreement was capped at 3.5 percent increase, which didn't keep pace with how the economy is going right now," he said. "That does factor in." The quote from Waste Management had moved to a $5 table for diesel cost(up from $4), meaning that diesel would have to hit $5 before a surcharge was added. Industry average for diesel was $3.85, he said.
"I put a $5 table in the proposal so you don't see a surcharge on your invoice. I work on a regular basis with Sandi and Jayne if anything needs to be taken care of," Miller said. "We do have a pretty good business relationship." The contract proposal is for five years.
Also giving a quote for services Dec. 8 was GFL Environmental, located just west of Thorp at N14985 Tieman Avenue.
"Hi, my name is Ashlie. I represent GFL," Ashlie Ladow said appearing with Sean Partridge. "This is Sean Partridge."
"We are proposing weekly trash pickup and biweekly recycling. It would be a flat fee of $20.15 for a 95 gallon trash and 95 gallon recycling. If a resident were to want a smaller container that would be an option but the rates would stay the same."
GFL offered additional services as well, with Ladow highlighting the ability to accommodate things like setting up dumpsters for placing that were blocked off due to water or sewer projects.
"We do offer a lot of different services in the neighborhood," she said. "We are right up in Thorp so we are your neighbor. We would like to offer you our services for trash and recycling collection. Do you guys have any questions?"
"Is that for a year?" Village President Bob Geist asked.
"Five," Ladow said of the contract.
"That's you billing or us billing?" Village Clerk Sandi Isaacs asked, receiving an answer that it would be the village.
"Well I guess for my part of it as the clerk-treasurer we would need to know the $20.15 what part of that is for recycling and what is for trash," she said for billing. Not all Boyd residents had both trash and recycling services.
"$5.75 for recycling," Partridge said for a further breakdown of the $20.15 flat rate from GFL. Recycling is placed on the water bill in Boyd.
"We have spring and fall cleanup," Trustee Dale Isaacs said. "I don't see anything mentioned about that. Waste Management covers three containers in the spring and three containers in the fall for that."
After further discussion it was decided to go with Waste Management.
"My opinion would be to stick with Waste Management," Trustee Michael Eslinger said for trash and recycling. "I obviously appreciate GFL putting together a proposal and coming here but I think the flexibility of having multiple options would overall be a better benefit to most of our residents."
Motion was then made by Geist seconded by Eslinger, all present voting in favor.