You can read the correspondence from Waste Connections to the county and the letter Cam Parry referred to in a recent BOC meeting whereby he claimed the board was “calling the curtain” on Waste Connections for starving the Beaver Hill Disposal Site. Read the documents here Waste_Connections_County_Counsel
In my opinion, the letter from Waste Connections did not qualify for exemption from public meetings law and should not have been discussed in executive session. How many other items of this nature are withheld from public scrutiny? The letter does address the missing tonnage –
Further, it’s our understanding Waste Connections has agreed to pay DEQ nearly $10,000 in fees due for waste deposited out of state. Waste Connection’s acknowledgement of the significant increase in tonnage being hauled out of state while Beaver Hill is experiencing a Significant decrease is hard to reconcile without coming to the conclusion Waste Connections is not delivering all the waste collected from unincorporated areas of the County to Beaver Hill as required by its franchise agreements.
Despite those legitimate concerns, the County is focused at this point on addressing the larger overarching issue of how Beaver Hill can move forward as a fiscally sustainable facility. The crucial volume issue will be addressed either by
enforcement of our current franchise structure or the implementation of statutory flow control. In any event, our goals are ultimately the same, to provide uninterrupted solid waste services to the people of Coos County by utilizing public dollars as efficiently as possible. In that vein, the Board will need to work with all its franchisees moving forward.
Lastly, we were misled last week, the board isn’t calling the curtain on Waste Connections and all three commissioners were complicit in that bit of theater.
Bob Main
(541) 396-3121 ext 770
Fred Messerle
(541) 396-3121 ext 247
Cam Parry
(541) 396-3121 ext 281
themguys – do you think Frasier would respond/do anything?
I’m thinking Kroger, Kitzhaber….do we have anyone with any power locally that will address this? I mean, in addition to EVERYTHING else they are doing, the just out-and-out lied to citizens when they said they were going to start enforcing the contract with WC, and the letter above is like a free blowjob from the County to WC! Sickening!
This is how I see the County talking to WC:” yeah, you owe us a lot of money, but don’t worry about it, bro, we’re focused on moving forward….shall I swallow?”
Sorry for the crassness, I’m just livid.
I think we can expect to see ORCCA dragged out for a public flogging every time you report on the latest-greatest scandal, whatever it may be and by any part of the SCDC organized family. They need the public to be very distracted from what your reporting on this site. This red-headed stepchild(ORCCA) is going to be smacked around every time you piss them off. I think your events timeline could prove it.
The county sent out a media release today so the paper has this information. Let’s hope they don’t try to divert attention away from this charade by further picking on the local food bank.
I am working on a detailed timeline of these events for an upcoming post. This is an important story so I hope the paper doesn’t leave it solely to citizen journalists
Will The World ever report any of this?
Thank you Salmonologist, that was what I was trying to say. Why can’t WE go to the DA with the contract in hand and ask him to enforce it?
I see nothing wrong with that? Serious allegations are being made all over town, and we need to know whether the men working in solid waste are as capable as they seem publicly to be, why Cam got away with shutting it down when it didn’t have to happen. This outside engineer is already in his pocket, we need to insist we have OUR own engineer to make the decisions. Mr. Stamp showed us how that one works.Don’t forget children, these folks are Koch Suckers, they have all the money in the world waiting for them. They’re little fish but they know where the big fishes swim. I’m so glad to see so many talking about it. Sho feels lonely out here sometimes.
Excellent question but I don’t know the answer yet. What we are watching appears to be concerted enterprise to convert Beaver Hill to a transfer station. Maybe we should Occupy the commissioners’ offices until they act… but state intervention may be necessary
Can we go “above the County’s head” for this one? I want to write to the heads of regulatory agencies and the Governer and say “help!” we are overrun with corrupt, lying, law-breaking thieves in our Board of Commissioners, look at all of the illegal and shady things they are doing! Good lord, what do we need to do to eradicate this bunch, short of the election….which doesn’t look too good to me since I only like one candidate….but maybe we need some outside interference! If the Board is not enforcing the contract with Waste Connections, what about appealing to the DOJ?
It is apparent that no one on this current board of commissioners either has the chops or the inclination to do the right thing.
Can We The People do something to require them to pay what they owe the county? Has Cam addressed that issue at all?
Can we do it through the DA?
Someone has to enforce the contract. Trust me, the court takes contracts very seriously.
If I were the lawyer receiving this letter, and I have been in similar situations, I would be gagging from laughter. I’ll add this one to my collection of worst ever letters from lawyers. If Waste Connections is not honoring their contractual obligations, can’t we at least say – Oh please Mr. Waste Connections, do you mind if I ask if its OK to bring up the subject of our agreement that you choose not to honor. But if you dont want to honor it, its OK with us. And, in one paragraph, not many pages.
Waste Connections wants to enforce a section of the agreement which it misinterprets as having exclusive rights to transport trash, rather than just collect trash, yet remains silent on the matter of delivering a minimum amount to the BHDS
Looks to me like they aren’t looking back, they will only look forward. Isn’t that what the bank robber says too?
All the while, closing it down, laying workers off, and selling it to Waste Connections. What I’d like to see is the agreements made, official and unofficial, that is where this all started. WC wouldn’t move this far into our panties to go away. This is a done deal voters. Right in front of us. Except when they make their deals behind closed doors.