City may dump trash contract
Source: By Dana Yates, San Mateo Daily Journal (CA), September 27, 2006
Poor service and years of increased garbage costs has Belmont city officials looking for an early way out of a garbage contract that expires in 2010. The Belmont City Council apologized last night for failing to notify residents about a recent 26 percent hike in garbage rates and it expressed reservations about renewing any contract through the South Bayside Waste Management Authority.
....... The current contract is written in such a way that allows Allied Waste to make adjustments in what the city owes for services, which makes it hard to predict rate increases.