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SWA adopts service-area map E, rejects vegetation-amnesty fee and authorizes bids for franchise collection
Summary
The Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority voted unanimously to adopt Exhibit E as the service-area map for next year's franchise collection contracts, declined a proposed vegetation-amnesty subscription, and authorized staff to issue invitations to bid with SBE participation goals and other procurement parameters.
The Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority voted 7-0 to adopt “Exhibit E” as the service-area map for its upcoming franchise collection contracts, to decline a proposed vegetation-amnesty subscription service, and to authorize staff to issue invitations to bid and related solicitation documents.
Staff described eight map options showing theoretical blended monthly rates if boundaries were changed; those blended figures were modeled from existing unit counts and recent bid prices but were not guarantees of future bid outcomes. Executive Director Dan Pelowitz told the board the modeled rates are reference points only: “We have no idea how [haulers] are going to bid,” he said, urging the board to consider the trade-off between larger service…
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