Joshua City Council directs staff to pursue twice-weekly automated trash service without citywide recycling fee

The Joshua City Council spent the bulk of its work session on solid-waste service options presented by Abel Marino, district manager for Waste Connections, and directed staff to pursue a contract reflecting Option 3 — twice-weekly automated trash collection without citywide recycling — with a formal contract to be brought back to the council for review and vote.

Waste Connections’ Abel Marino told the council, “We’ve been your service provider since 2000,” and laid out five service scenarios ranging from maintaining current service with a price increase to moving to once-a-week pickup with or without recycling. He presented specific rate impacts: Option 1 (current service with a price increase) would increase the per-household charge by $11.24; Option 2 would increase it by $3.74; Option 3 would increase it by $0.74; Option 4 would…