Trash haulers

Trash haulers

to negotiate

Relying on the state code’s provision for competitive negotiations, the Rappahannock supervisors will meet next week with the three respondents to their request for proposals on maintaining dumpster sites at Huntly and Scrabble, hauling to the new county landfill on the Stover tract near Amissville, and operating that facility.

Judging from the almost $90,000 disparity between the cost projections and the differences in the proposals themselves, the supervisors have plenty of room for maneuvering. And the prospects look good from a budgetary standpoint as the apparent low bidder is offering to haul and provide landfill operations support for about half of what engineer Leonard Joyce estimated it would take just to operate the landfill. (With any of the three proposals, however, the county will be paying its own full-time employee to supervise and direct the entire solid waste disposal operation.)

The low bid of $56,160 for hauling and 552,000 for landfill operation support (figjred at $40 an hour for 25 hours per week) comes from Big J Trash Service, owned by Stephen Kellison of Amissville. Mr. Kellison notes that his company presently main:ains 500 dumpsters at 300 commercial stops and has serviced Fauquier County’s aublic schools and Vint Hill Farm Station for the past 15 years.

In the middle is Community Trash Removal, Inc. of Culptq>er with a total annual a rice of $198,700 for both waste collection ind hauling and landfilling operation supaort. The proposal from E.B. Updike, Jr., aresident of Community Trash, gives a figare of $65 per hour for operator's time bevond an average of 25 hours per week.

The high bid of $269,994, plus $40,000 severance if a contract isn’t renewed for a second year, comes from Piedmont Trash, a

See BIDS, p, 14