Just to add to the ongoing debacle that is TCC they have dropped ratepayers down a bottomless rubbish pit into which they will pour more ratepayers money.

They have reportedly let a contract for ONE contractor to pick up all city rubbish. No firm numbers but indications are $250-$300 per ratepayer. Now that's real businesslike!

The contractor has to gear up with trucks etc so he will have big investment. So you can guarantee massive price hikes as normal with this sort of thing.

Plus those with little or no rubbish subsidise big wasters. All in your best interests of course.
From extensive experience with city rubbish it would not be out of the way to say that the contractor will be demanding huge increases after initially cutting his price to get the contract.

Once TCC placed themselves with a sole provider they became subject to the demands of that provider. Just like the good old days when the Union called the shots.

If you don't learn from history you are bound to repeat it.

Elected members - most of them inexperienced amateurs - have become a convenient rubber stamp for the officers.

B Faulkner.