A contract with Coastal Waste & Recycling Inc. goes for approval by the Augusta Commission Tuesday.
The company, which has a Goshen Industrial Boulevard location, is one of the city’s two current residential waste haulers. It was chosen after Augusta commissioners determined a single hauler should serve the entire city.
The proposed five-year contract requires recycling be an add-on service, ending a several-year recycling hiatus when it begins Aug. 1. The city has negotiated with Coastal a monthly rate of $22.11 per household for weekly waste pickup and $12.69 for recycling but hasn’t finalized what it will bill customers.
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In other action
Other items going for approval or discussion at the 2 p.m. commission meeting include:
- Certifying estimated roll-back mill rates for countywide and urban services district ad valorem taxes. The rates are the same as last year’s rates, 6.468 mills and 3.535 mills respectively, and must appear with the school system rate on upcoming reassessment notices. The schools’ estimated rate is 18.33.
- Approving Commissioner Alvin Mason’s appointment of Michael Meyers to the Augusta Historic Preservation Commission representing District 4.
- A request from Mason to discuss the James Brown Arena.
- Approving a $44,675 change order for Hussey Gay Bell & DeYoung to convert the former Houghton School into space for Juvenile Court and Richmond County Board of Elections. The change, required after Augusta reduced the scope of the renovation, brings the contract price to $883,875.
- Revising Augusta’s animal services ordinance to include mandatory microchipping, spaying and neutering; clarifying dangerous dogs, animal cruelty, abandonment and tethering; authorizing management of feral cats and changes rules for the animal services advisory board.
- Approving the appointment by Commissioner Wayne Guilfoyle of real estate agent Michelle Lockhart to represent District 10 on the Board of Assessors, replacing James Scott who served since 2003.
- A proclamation recognizing the launch of Mayor Garnett Johnson’s Summer Reading Program.
- A discussion by an Olde Town delegation on concerns about the impact of the new Salvation Army shelter on May Park and how the park renovation may need to be adjusted.
- Allowing Augusta Transit to develop a plan for micro-transit in Richmond County. Micro-transit is typically a service providing on-demand rides in certain areas booked through an app.
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