Yorktown Board Fires 1 Garbage Collector, Hires Another

YORKTOWN, NY — As expected, the Yorktown Town Board fired one garbage collector and hired another at its meeting Tuesday.

Using three resolutions, Competitive Carting Corporation’s contract, which began in January, was terminated, a public health and safety emergency was declared and CRP Sanitation Inc. was engaged to collect refuse and recycling for a one-year period.

Push came to shove in August when Competitive Carting had five of its trucks repossessed. That was the third major disruption of service since the company began serving Yorktown.

Competitive Carting got off to a rocky start in January, failing to adequately collect the garbage in its first week. Service fell apart again after the Fourth of July holiday and then again in August due to equipment being repossessed.

Supervisor Tom Diana said during the meeting Tuesday that, because of the public health emergency, the town “cannot wait for formal competitive bidding.”

That allowed the board to authorize the execution of an emergency agreement with CRP Sanitation Inc., a Cortlandt Manor-based company that was already on the job over the holiday weekend getting rid of refuse that Competitive Carting was unable to collect.

The specifics of the resolutions included terminating the town’s agreement with Competitive Carting, effective Sept. 1, for failure “to perform the essential functions” of the agreement; declaring an emergency and entering into a one-year contract with CRP Sanitation, effective Sept. 5; and authorizing CRP Sanitation to “rent” two town-owned packer trucks, only one of which will actually be used, according to information imparted at the board meeting.

In spite of all the financial components — including Competitive’s base cost of $288,000 per month, the more than $150,000 in fines Competitive will have to pay, the $26,000 in Saturday emergency coverage costs and the daily truck rental of $12,000 — town officials said Yorktown’s taxpayers aren’t going to take a monetary hit.

“By the time we’re done, there is not going to be any additional cost,” said Councilman Sergio Esposito, “even though we hired CRP for the rest of the year.”

He added that the town will actually end up with a surplus of more than $106,000.

“This was a herculean task,” Diana said. “We were doing the best we could do, and I don’t think anybody could do it better.”

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