This comment was posted Friday, Feb. 18, by "grumpster" in response to the article, "," which also was published Friday, Feb. 18:
Somehow every other city in our area (which all have curbside recycling just like El Cerrito) have managed to keep their trash rates FAR below El Cerrito's. Here are the numbers for a 35 gallon can:
El Cerrito $38.10
Richmond $28.46
Albany $24.77
Berkeley $27.56
What is different in El Cerrito? One thing is that our trash rates include very large fees to cover the cost of building the new recycling Taj Majal; another is that our fine, honest, and well-managed city has elected to repeatedly renew its contract with a small, inefficient trash company, instead of seeking competitive bids from others that could do the job at a lower cost.
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