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Kent resident urges automatic credits after missed Republic Services pickups
Summary
A Kent business owner urged the council to revise the city’s contract with Republic Services to require automatic credits and contingency plans when collection stops due to labor disputes, citing overflowing dumpsters and out-of-pocket costs.
Tim Brown, a Kent resident and business owner, told the City Council on Aug. 5 that missed waste pickups tied to labor disputes in other parts of the country left local dumpsters overflowing and businesses bearing cleanup costs.
Brown described specific business impacts and asked the council to require automatic credits and contingency plans in the city’s contract with Republic Services. “We need to get an automatic credit,” Brown said, recounting examples of dumpsters…
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