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Select Board backs professional help, timeline for $5.6M solid‑waste RFQ and collection‑center review
Summary
The Select Board agreed to seek specialty legal/contract help and follow a timeline aimed at awarding a new municipal solid‑waste contract by July 13, 2026; the Solid Waste and Recycling Committee urged a bidders conference and better RFQ detail while debating the town collection center’s role.
The Kingston Select Board agreed to pursue specialized contract and negotiation assistance to ready a municipal solid‑waste request for qualifications (RFQ) and follow a timeline intended to allow awarding a new contract by July 13, 2026.
Phil Coombs, chair of the Solid Waste and Recycling Committee, presented a proposed timeline that would present collection‑center data to the Select Board in November and release the RFQ in April 2026 with responses due May 13, 2026. “This would then allow for the committee and the select board to evaluate the responses, or the committee to evaluate the responses,…
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