The Fundy Regional Service Commission passing a motion to get estimates from other private companies on waste and compost collection and curbside recycling for the entire region.
Members of the commission defeating motions to implement Option 1 known as status quo and Option 3 which includes curbside recycling.
Our newsroom asked Saint John Mayor Mel Norton if he thinks the Waste Diversion Committee ,which spent a year examining options that were not chosen, wasted their time.
Norton says their input informed all the discussion today and they could not have done it without their legwork in advance.
Commission Chair Grace Losier doesn’t think the commission members are resistant to looking at things from a regional perspective.
She says the truth is they spend a lot of time and effort investigating issues and sometimes the conclusions will be different.
Executive Director Jack Keir says its doesn’t matter to the staff at the landfill which option the commission chooses they just wanted direction.
He would have preferred to see a unanimous decision but he’s ok with the way things played out adding they will work through this.
Keir will now sit down with city and town mangers and LSD reps to determine what each community wants included in that tender to determine an all over cost for providing service to the entire Fundy region.
