A town divided

Posted July 28, 2009 at 7:43 pm and filed under City. Updated October 30, 2009 at 4:00 pm.

Last Tuesday’s Town Hall meeting ran more than three hours. During the heated discussion citizens and Council members weighed in on the choice between All-Star Waste Services and Shaw Sanitation.

All for All-Star

Ken Marshburn and Kathy Behringer

Ken Marshburn and Kathy Behringer

“I like the fact that [All-Star is] a smaller company. I believe they have a great incentive to manage this contract well.”
Ken Marshburn, Council member

“I still have concerns about dumping recycling in with the solid waste. I know that’s been addressed with satisfactorily, but it is still a concern to me.”
Kathy Behringer, Council member

“Unless you want your elected officials to move out and live on a houseboat on Lake Benson and be isolated, we’re going to know people. That’s part of our job.”
Gra Singleton, Council member

“When one firm bids a service 50 percent below the rest, as did Shaw, there is a measure of concern that there may be inadequate resources assigned to Garner during our most critical periods.”
Buck Kennedy, Council member

Much ado about Shaw?

“I don’t know much about Shaw. I don’t know anything about All-Star. I look at trying to save a dollar for the taxpayers. …I have been on this board almost 20-some years, and 99 percent of the time we have always went with the lowest bidder.”
Jackie Johns, Council member

“Some questions got answered [at the meeting]…but there are still some unanswered about the vote that will probably never be answered.”
Mayor Ronnie Williams

Harry Jeffries

Harry Jeffries

“We have all the experience that you outlined in your specifications, and we’re willing to do it for less money. The only thing we don’t have experience on is the leaves, and neither does the contract that you have selected.”
Craig Jackson, vice president of Shaw Sanitation Services

“We need the $4.6 million to stay in Wake County so we can fund the county’s efforts in our schools, libraries and law enforcement.”
Daniel Coleman, of Wake County

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