Board defers USD hearing to October
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors deferred the public hearing on a Unified Sanitation District from June 24 to Oct. 14.
That would provide more time to address the displacement of small trash haulers and carry out more outreach to the public, Board Chair Jeffrey McKay said at the June 10 board meeting.
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Under the USD proposal, Fairfax County would take over all trash and recycling services. The county would contract with trash companies to handle waste on a regional basis.
The USD concept has drawn strong opposition from small haulers, HOAs, and individual residents who don’t want to give up trash service flexibility.
A petition against a USD posted by the owner of Garby Disposal Services has gotten 1,320 signatures so far.
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Happy to hear the supervisors are listening to their constituents. No part of this plan makes sense for Fairfax County residents. Loss of choice, loss of service, and increased prices.
I think not.
The deferment of the public hearing does a disservice to the residents of Fairfax County, depriving them of the option for something better 5 years from now. It silences the voice of the community and steals their opportunity to work together, essentially risk free, with the government in an attempt to have something better for everyone.
By avoiding the public hearing and not moving forward, the community will never know if they could have another choice, if they could have better service, or if they could have it cheaper. Only to continue to be shackled to the same terrible system, where individuals are given the illusion of choice, addicted to convenience, and waiting till they are disappointed once again and have to go out on their own to negotiate by themselves.
The choice is who we elect and how they spend our tax dollars. Waste management, including residential waste removal, is such a basic government function. It’s something one takes for granted living nearly anywhere else. I’m over trucks coming down the street five days a week, and needing to renegotiate or switch providers every year due to predatory price hikes. It is not cost efficient or energy efficient having so many companies serving the same streets. If you are unlucky enough to have an HOA you see the benefit of having a single-payer negotiate pricing. Apply that on a county-wide level and prices are lower because of efficiency of having more customers on a shorter route.