As expected, the public works committee has voted Wednesday in favour of a plan to privatize garbage collection in Scarborough (known as collection district 4). City Council will consider the matter in a meeting that begins January 31, 2017. The proposal is different from the decision taken by the administration of the late Mayor Ford in 2012 to arbitrarily change service from City-operated collection (CUPE) to the private Green For Life pickup. The City will conduct a so-called “managed competition procurement process” This allows both private and unionized (CUPE) to bid.
SOUTH BAYVIEW
This leaves the section of Toronto east of Yonge Street known to many as Midtown (and including South Bayview) still served by municipal employees represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees. “It is time to do a proper market sounding and get actual costs from the market and not back-of-napkin analysis,” Public Works Chair Jaye Robinson (Ward 25) told reporters. “No one should be afraid of getting real numbers and making decisions based on facts.”
Well if it save 11 million $ in Etobicoke let’s see what happens in Scarborough.