By Elsa Maxey

In accordance with those voting in the city’s May election, Missouri City has passed a new citywide garbage service ordinance impacting its residents. The new ordinance is about citywide garbage service collection which has also been called a consolidated municipal trash or solid waste program.

The city reports that the ordinance exempts existing sole service trash contracts until such time as their base rate is not lower than the city’s base service rate. That means that residents will be required to accept city service eventually, unless they have a contract for comparable service at a lower-cost.

As explained, the city’s contract offers six service levels, including either once-weekly or twice-weekly pick-up, either manual or automated, with or without curbside recycling.

The city intends to offer its residents garbage collection services costing less by expanding its current city contract which serves only about 3,500 households. This service is provided by Republic Waste Services. Most of the city’s households, over 20,000 of them, presently have their garbage collected by solid waste providers whose contracts are negotiated by municipal utility districts or homeowner associations.

Last week, city council authorized staff to negotiate agreements with area utility districts for billing services. Missouri City has said that regarding the exact level of solid waste services to be provided, this will be defined under a newly negotiated municipal trash contract.

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