Genoa gets saving on trash service

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

The Genoa Town­ship Board of Trustees signed a new garbage and curb­side recy­cling ser­vice con­tract with Rumpke sav­ing res­i­dents $1.77 per month per house­hold at a total sav­ings of $21.24 per house­hold over the next year. Con­sid­er­ing the 8,000 homes in Genoa Town­ship, the new con­tract rep­re­sents a township-wide sav­ings of $169,920 in 2013 over last year’s contract.

The town­ship recently rebid a three-year con­tract with Rumpke that ended on Decem­ber 31, 2012, with a quar­terly fee of $52.14 per house­hold. The town­ship bid the con­tract and had five ser­vice providers request a bid pack­age, but only one provider sub­mit­ted a bid. Rumpke rebid the ser­vice at $46.44 quar­terly per house­hold, a sav­ings of 11 percent.

The 13-month con­tract includes a three-year renewal option. The renewal option also includes a clause allow­ing the town­ship to put the con­tract out for rebid after the ini­tial 13 months.

Genoa Town­ship plans to col­lab­o­rate with Orange Town­ship. Orange has a con­tract expir­ing in 13 months allow­ing that town­ship to col­lec­tively bid ser­vices with the objec­tive of achiev­ing an even lower rate for res­i­dents. Genoa Town­ship will also seek other Delaware County polit­i­cal sub­di­vi­sions to join in the col­lab­o­ra­tive effort.

“I’m beyond proud of the work that was done on this con­tract by both our Admin­is­tra­tor Paul Wise and Rumpke,” said trustee vice-chair Rick Carfagna. “Any­time we can pre­serve the exist­ing lev­els of ser­vice while also reduc­ing rates for town­ship house­holds by 11 per­cent, that’s some­thing worth celebrating.”

Trustee chair Barb Lewis said that the township’s goal is to strate­gi­cally achieve even longer-term sav­ings for town­ship res­i­dents by join­ing with neigh­bor­ing jurisdictions.

“The Rumpke Con­tract Renewal is another great exam­ple of how our employ­ees work to keep res­i­dents’ costs for ser­vices as low as pos­si­ble — in this case even lower,” Lewis added.

The new curb­side ser­vice con­tract con­tin­ues to offer a 10 per­cent dis­count to seniors — house­holds with a head of house­hold who is 62 years of age or older.

The new con­tract con­tin­ues to offer the option to rent a 96-gallon, wheeled trash recep­ta­cle for $1.50 per month, and the option for 65-gallon and 95-gallon curb­side recy­cling totes with lids at $1.50 per month. An 18-gallon recy­cling tote will con­tinue to be pro­vided free of charge to each resident.

The Genoa Town­ship Admin­is­tra­tive Offices are located at the Genoa Town­ship Hall, 5111 South Old 3C High­way, West­er­ville. The offices are reg­u­larly open to the pub­lic Mon­day through Fri­day from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Posted by Gary Henery on Jan 23 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.