Star Tribune Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:57:16 GMT
Haulers will fight Minneapolis plan to take trash bids
The group of companies that serves half the city promised a legal challenge after the council voted 11-2 to proceed with a plan to put the residential trash-hauling business up for bids. ... A spokesman for Minneapolis Refuse Inc. (MRI) said the hauler consortium will ask a court to block the city move. MRI successfully derailed a 2006 council vote to seek proposals by going to court and requiring that a state law governing procedures for garbage contracting be followed. MRI this time will argue that the city didn't follow that law by not negotiating with haulers interested in the city job. "The city did not do it right," said MRI Chairman Greg "Red" Burt. "If they want transparency, they should have transparency all the way. They did not negotiate with the interested parties." But the city's position is that although the law requires it to discuss collection arrangements with interested haulers, it doesn't require the discussion to produce agreement.[emphasis added]
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