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Washington County renews WEMIGA contract
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WASHINGTON — County officials have renewed a contract with WEMIGA Waste Management, maintaining the county’s ties to the trash disposal and recycling business through 2029.
County officials said they were pleased with the disposal center’s operation under nearly identical contracts over the last eight years.
“I don’t know of anything in particular that we need to change,” Supervisor Jack Seward Jr. said. “As far as I know, everyone is satisfied with the way things are going.”
The contract requires a county payment of $13,832 per month to the facility, the same fee implemented in WEMIGA’s first contract signed in 2017, when it started operating the recycling facility on Lexington Avenue.
The agreement also obligates Washington County to pay the net recycling expense for items WEMIGA recycles, if that cost outsizes its profits from recycling other materials.
In exchange, WEMIGA will provide trash disposal and recycling services to any resident of Washington County who doesn’t live within a city’s limits. The contract also obligates the business to keep its doors open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, and from 7 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, except for holidays.
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