Trash pickup may end Tuesday in Calumet City after the City Council rejected a contract extension for Republic Services that would raise costs 17% the first year and 5% each of the next three years
Jocelyn Kruis, general manager for a Crestwood-based Republic Services facility, tells Calumet City City Council members there have been significant cost increases for trash pickup over the past 12 months.
Republic ranks among the nation’s largest residential and commercial waste hauling companies with $11 billion in revenues and 39,000 employees in the United States. Republic operates 198 landfills and 71 recycling centers.“We would like to continue,” Kruis said. Calumet City has more than 35,000 residents and covers more than 7 square miles between Chicago’s southeastern border and Interstate 80, and the Bishop Ford expressway and the Indiana border
Calumet City last approved a four-year agreement with Republic in 2016, he said. The city agreed to one-year extensions in 2020 and 2021. That was during the start of the pandemic and the end of an 18-year tenure by Mayor Michelle Markiewicz Qualkinbush. Jones won election and took office in 2021.“I think it was a great contract in 2016,” Navarrete said. “It seemed like we should have given them a four-year extension in 2020.
The most recent one-year extension stipulated that city and company representatives would meet by July 1 to negotiate a new contract, Kruis said.Republic has divided Calumet City into five areas and picks up trash and recycling from homes and businesses on all five weekdays, according to a map and information posted on the city’s website.Advertisement“No,” Kruis replied. “We did everything that we were asked to do.
“The end result is if the City Council doesn’t pass this, garbage will not be picked up on Feb. 1,” the mayor said.
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