NATCHEZ, Miss. — The two garbage companies bidding to pick up Adams County residents’ household trash is the company that currently serves residents inside Natchez and another that’s affiliated with the county’s trash collector that went bankrupt last year.
The Adams County Board of Supervisors began Monday reviewing the proposals from Arrow Disposal Services and United Infrastructure Services. The board will decide later which is the best deal. Both companies set their monthly charges at nearly $27-per-household for twice-a-week pickups: United at $26.66 and Arrow at $26.93.
United is the incorporated offshoot of Metro Services, the Louisiana-based trash company that went bankrupt, said board attorney Scott Slover.
The county is currently paying $19 per household through a temporary garbage contract the board approved last month with a reorganized Metro-affiliated company. After Metro filed for bankruptcy last year, the old contract with Adams County was dissolved. Supervisors had to work out the short-term emergency contract with the restructured Louisiana-based trash company to ensure about 5,000 Adams County households’ curbside garbage collection continued.
Monday was set as the deadline for prospective companies to submit bids for a long-term trash collection contract, but only Arrow and United made proposals The Board of Supervisors will review details of the proposals and decide in the coming weeks whether to ink a deal with one of the companies.
Adams County residents are now directly billed $15 a month per household for their twice-a-week garbage collection.
In a separate arrangement made by the Natchez Board of Aldermen, city residents pay $22.17 a month per household for their three-times-a-week trash collection (one for recyclables) by Alabama-based Arrow.
Other trash collectors that serve the area — including Waste Management and Waste Pro — did not submit bids.
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Adams County supervisors set Feb. 16 as the day to interview applicants for the county administrator’s job. Supervisors last month voted out Angie King as Adams County’s chief staffer. While 38 applicants reportedly applied for the job, the board is narrowing them down to a few to be further considered. The board on Monday closed the public out discussions about the county administrator’s position. The Feb. 16 interview sessions are expected to also be closed to the public.
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The board allocated about $458,000 for resurfacing South Palestine Road. The money is from federal funds Adams County has received for recovering from the economic impact of the COVID pandemic. The 2.6-mile section of the south Adams County road is an addition to the $8 million road-overlay project the board initiated late last year being largely financed by bond revenues.
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