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Limiting Trash Haulers Bad for Business

The City of Los Angeles Sanitation Department plans to limit and franchise the number of trash hauling companies to one for each of the 11 areas. The plan would create critical problems for employers, apartment owners, residential and commercial tenants, city tax revenue, and the public, in general. Although requiring new environmental standards for trash hauling trucks will increase operating costs to possibly improve the environment, it does not justify eliminating trash hauling for more than 100 companies and jobs for more than 1,000 employees. The plan also includes fining apartment owners for the failure of their tenants to properly recycle waste. Particularly due to the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance, apartment owners have absolutely no legal ability to enforce recycling regulations at their property. At a critical time when new businesses are needed to generate jobs and more tax revenue in Los Angeles, trashing existing jobs exacerbates the city’s fiscal problems. Elimination of so many trash haulers would eliminate competition, causing charges to customers to escalate dramatically. That would help make Los Angeles less competitive with other cities. Information provided by the Department of Sanitation about apartments with four units or less serviced by the Department creates doubt about the validity of its information, in general. The Sanitation Department picks up trash at many multi-residential properties of more than four units in Los Angeles. For these reasons, Valley VOTE strongly opposes the proposed franchising of very few waste haulers and elimination of many others. J. Richard Leyner, Chairman Vick Viereck, Treasurer Valley VOTE, a diverse coalition of San Fernando Valley residents, business people, educators, community activists, and organizations, is committed to exploring and fostering the implementation of programs that empower the people of the San Fernando Valley and the City of Los Angeles, to improve local governance, education and public participation on policy matters.

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