Sahuarita council adopts townwide residential trash ordinance and awards seven‑year contract to Waste Connections

Sahuarita’s Town Council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance creating a townwide residential curbside collection program and to award a seven‑year contract to Waste Connections of Arizona.

The ordinance (No. 2025‑179) establishes an exclusive residential curbside collection system for single‑family and multifamily properties of up to four units, sets a 09/01/2025 commencement date, and authorizes staff to issue policies implementing mandatory participation, limited exemptions for existing valid HOA contracts and large‑lot commercial collections, and vacation holds. The council then approved Contract No. 250001—an initial seven‑year term with optional extensions—including weekly trash and recycling collection, four bulk pickups per year by appointment, town‑owned carts maintained by the contractor, and an annual CPI‑based escalation. Council selected the fixed‑rate pricing option.

Why it matters: Town staff argued the single‑provider model reduces street wear, vehicle trips, emissions and noise by eliminating multiple garbage fleets operating on the same residential streets; it also enables uniform…