Can't the council find something else to worry about,,,stick your noses in something else,keep them out of my trash you power hungery fools. Flex your muscles with the rec dept, or the tourism dept,,,you have already messed up enough things in this city, leave my garbage alone !!!!!!!!!

I live in PTC and have CLM and love them! They have been wonderful as far as pickup and going out of their way to help with extra trash. As far as many of the other detractors, I would wait until tonight to see what the pricing structure actually is as I understand it should not be going up and would include extras. One time we forgot to put out the can and the driver saw us struggling and ran up the driveway to grab it for us so we didn't have to rush. Anyway, I'm rooting for them and am biased because of the service we have received.

Just a note on this. A somewhat random survey this week of 20 cities in Georgia with a population between 15,000 and 60,000 showed that ALL provided trash service either through a private hauler or with city equipment. In all cases there was a contract with the city and all but one (Newnan) did the billing either directly (water bill typically) or through outsourcing.

The issue should not be whether we have trash service. Having a city provide trash service to residents appears common, at least from the survey. But in this case,the city is not providing trash service but rather only dictating that residents use the designated service without choice and with penalty for failure. Maybe our mafia leaders, "don" Logsdon and "don" McMullin, will next ordane that we use only their designated lawn service to reduce traffic, small equipment noise; or maybe their roofing contractor to reduce risk of wrong color choice; or....

I just cancelled my service from CLM. I continuously had bad service, the price has gone up 4 times in the past year (every quarter), you can't get a live person on the phone and furthemore, because they use that automatic truck, garbage falls all over the street and the driver doesn't pick up. All together, I have not been satisfied with CLM and moved over to Robertson Sanitation. It's saved me $10 per billing cycle and they gave me a locked in rate for a year! This is all politics again...CLM has local owners therefore, they put the government in their pocket.

I stated earlier that I would after reading the proposal offer 32 years of experience with Municipality Contracts and the industry in general.
1.As a selling point everyone supporting this is saying the same thing (RECYCLE) Remember this is a selling point using your desire, need, or guilt to recycle to get behind this proposal. I have not seen nor read anything that goes beyond or above concernng recycle other than the fact that we will pay for it no matter if we use or not. They say they are going to put I think ( I didn't print it out)$10,000.00 ten thousand dollars in recycle education, I personally don't need another flyer and as far as schools are concerned I think the teachers are better equipped to teach the kids. In my opinion recycling is important but don't get caught up in hype that is not there.
2.The City will receive a $25,000.00 Performance Bond from the company, now this money is supposed to be put in Escrow and held until the end of the contract allowing the City to draw interest from it. Now the catch, the City has a list of fines that they will deduct from the bond for every infraction the comapny gets like a certain number of complaints, whatever they deem punishable. Bottom line is the company does not expect to get this money back it's the price for the contract and bigger pay off.
3.The City gets free trash service at City Buildings, Good for the city but is anythng really free? We the citizens will get the bill eventually.
4.Speaking of free, let me go back to something, CLM is stating they are going to give FREE recycling now I've been around the block but ask yourself how can they give free recycling to 10,000 plus customers concidering they have no idea how many will actually recycle or how often. Even if you sale the recycling the revenue is not guarentee'd nor is it projectable. Again the trucks the employees are still being paid for so add that with free yard waste removal and something isn't right because the numbers don't add up. What's the catch?
5.My head hurts at this point let me say the proposal does not look correct and has a lot of unanswered questions along with a low price starting out and a lot of FREE SERVICES that leave me asking a lot of questions mainly how do you enter into a contract giving away 30% of the service with a committed capitol of $35,000.00 cash plus cost of start up including trucks and employees and make money?
GET my point now.
I will look into this more and I would suggest every one attend the meeting and ask Were's the money? My guess, you and I are going to pay some where along the line.

As it is now, I am not paying for recycling. I use our recycling center. How much is this going to jack me for? Am I going from $48.00 to $90 or what?

My wife and I recently decided to start recycling. I became aware of this proposal a few weeks ago. While I don't like the idea of a service being chosen for me, the advantage of getting more services and saving the city money for solid waste pick up is inviting. There are also some subtle advantages: being able to identify who is responsible for garbage that fell off a garbage truck going down the road, oil and hydraulic leaks, and decrease in heavy truck traffic on residential streets, to name a few. The important thing for me is that "the proposed contract is for one year with four one-year automatic renewals beginning April 1, 2009". Unlike Comcast for example which we are stuck with! If we have serious issues with CLM after a year we can get a different company to be the sole provider. I say lets give it a try.

Using this logic I guess we need to close McDonalds, Taco Bell, Wendy's, and Arbys so that residents can only choose Chik-fil-a. We also need to close Best Buy, Target, Pet Smart, K-Mart and a dozen other stores so that residents can only choose Wal-Mart for clothing, electronics, and home improvement items. Lines are going to be long when we only have one gas station in PTC. Thank god we only have one grocery vendor...Kroger. Oh wait...gotta close those too since Wal-Mart is the official store. What country is this again?

I hate this deal on so many levels but didn't even think about what my neighborhood will look like on trash day. Everyone's can on the curb from one afternoon to the next evening. At least now it's spread out enough that you don't notice it as much.

Well I guess we'll know who didn't but their can away for a week.

City Council of Peachtree City, Agenda, November 6 2008

As per letter from City Manager to PTC Mayor and Council, Subject: Franchise Agreement for Solid Waste Collection Disposal, dated, November 6 2008 City Council Meeting

“The focus of this discussion was the necessity of incorporating CURBSIDE RECYCLING fully into the City s plans for dealing with solid wastes and how this could only be accomplished successfully through the exclusive franchise option.”

As part of the justification used in selecting CLM, city staff writes, “In conjunction with Keep Peachtree City Beautiful KPTCB CLM Sanitation will offer an incentive based recycle program based on numbers of recycled materials.”

I have to ask, how is that possible when the, “EVALUATION CRITERIA and EVALUATION SUMMARY” clearly states:

Description:
Proposers must include detailed list of items that will be eligible for recycling.

Response for CLM:
This was not supplied with proposal.

I can’t speak for the contract evaluation methods used by PTC but I can tell you that if an RFP is received by my company and our contracting officers see, “This was not supplied with proposal”, the RFP gets rejected.

This is particularly concerning as the overwhelming justification for considering a single trash service provider was to force the residents of PTC to recycle.

That the PTC city staff not only accepted this “NON-RESPONSIVE” RFP as complete but is now recommending this provider as their choice is further evidence that the current PTC administration has gone totally “off the reservation” as it were.

I would strongly encourage all other RFP respondents who did fully comply with the requirements of the RFP to contest this award and force the city to court to justify their selection.

About the only consolation I can glean from this and numerous other examples of total disregard of citizen concerns is the fact that three of the current PTC City Council members will NOT be reelected.

First you say you (CLM) are(is) the "largest residential provider in the state" I called the other companies and ask them this question and from what I gather they have more customers than you do so that was just an outright lie. What you can say is you are the largest INDEPENDENTLY owned residential provider in the state and since I could not even start to call up every provider much less know who is actually independent I guess your (their) word will have to sufice. WHERE YOUR (their) COMPLAINTS COME FROM DOES NOT MATTER DOES IT? YOU (they) HAVE 10 X'S THE AMOUNT OF COMPLAINTS AND A QUARTER OF THE SIZE. A unhappy customer is a unhappy customer or are you saying that your (their) customers in Clayton County are some how not worthy of consideration when it comes to customer service?
SECOND, I called your (their) Pratt Industeries and was told that THEY DO NOT RECYCLE GLASS, I also called another recycler who informed me that there is a process called co-mingle which they recycler seperates the material and if it is a small amount they will accept it but it will be discarded and the hauler will be charged for the load, SO do your home work before responding we have fought this battle a long time and you are just coming in.

I read some of the comments below and I can't believe this is up for debate. We are one of the few cities that does not have a single garbage provider. PTC is a wonderful place to live but I have never understood why we are behind the times when it comes to recycling. I don't have a problem with only one company especially if we are going to receive free recycle and yard debris collection. There is strength in numbers and when the commmunity as a whole uses one provider we can save money and receive more service. In this economy less money out of my pocket and more servie is a win for me and our city. We are already paying enough to the government.

With regard to CLM. I have had CLM for quite a while and have been very pleased with the service. In fact some of my elderly neighbors have said several times the truck was passing by and the garbage driver stoppped and helped them actually get their can to the curb even thought he was past their house.

I think it is pretty simple more services (especially recyle) for less money.

I have done a couple of Blogs on here concerning this issue so if you have read them bear with me. First to the lover of CLM here, they lied to you! No one in the State Of Georgia accepts Glass as a Recycled Material, It's not been taken in Georgia since the Eighties. GO to BBB.Org and look up the companies Allied (World Wide Company) 7 complaints. All South Robertson 6 complaints. Advanced Disposal 3 plus complaints at each division. CLM 70 COMPLAINTS, that's right 70! and a quarter the size of the other comapnies. Did you understand the NO OPT OUT- we will have no choice in the matter and be dragged through court if we don't comply, If you have an issue and don't pay your bill you get a ticket and go to court! If a company gives you better service tough luck you can't change or stay, If a company gives better prices tough luck you can't change or stay. If you want a better look at the supporters of this then check out citizenbrians Blog or mine Peachtree city beware. You will pay extra, what happens when all the phone calls start into City Hall? Who is going to pay for the extra staff to answer them? We will through higher taxes!!!! How much of this can you take? How many times does this has to be fought against? Don't take my word, research for yourselves. GET INVOLVED!

PLEASE do not allow this company to be the only trash company operating in our city. To begin with; the city should not be telling me who I need to do business with. Secondly; we were customers of this company and were extremely unhappy with them. We had their "service" for one month and switched back to Allied Waste. The only way to reach CLM is through email. They have an office in Henry County but no one answers the phone; even during business hours. We sent an email to them back in January and have yet to get a response. Our trash sat in front of our house for 2-3 days waiting for pickup and we were concerned that we would get a ticket from the code enforcers for this. The CLM recycling is inadequate; they do not accept glass. And finally; the trash can that they were to pick up in February finally got picked up last week. Peachtree City will look and smell pretty bad if this is the company we are FORCED to use. I refuse to pay (and be forced to use, to boot)for substandard service and that is what CLM provides.