Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 26, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside Story Winnipeg free press july City recyclers left out on curb multinational garbage giant to run Winnipeg wide program by Stevens wild City Hall reporter three local recyclers were out of the cites new curbside program because their bids were not what the City expected them to Glen Murray said plans announced earlier this year called for the City to be divided into two or More recycling contracts would then have been awarded to each we expected everyone to get a piece of the Murray fort Rouge the Small local recyclers teamed up with major National and International players in the Industry and made bids for the entire Price concerns and they lost yesterday when the cites works and operations commit granted Laidlaw waste systems the five year con tract for citywide curbside Recy Council will debate the plan Murray voiced some concerns yesterday about Laidlaw jacking up its Price in five now that it has they will have total control of the local he for Green red and Planit Small recyclers there wont be a next consultant Alfred von Mir Baach said there would be nothing stopping other corporations from bidding again five years from Murray also questioned the Large variation in the bids from the three different anyone in my position would be asking these questions when you see a discrepancy of that he works and operations commissioner Bill Carroll said such questions Are never asked of contractors or How they do their business is up to he we assume they know what they who recommended that the works and operations committee Grant the tender to made it Clear that they believed the multinational company the Best the most important factors in Laid Laws favor included their Recy cling staff expertise and financial the report the Cost was substantially lower than any of the other proposal in each one of the Homes in Winnipeg will re this company knows garbage is a publicly traded Canadian company that oper ates solid and hazardous waste management and Senger transportation services throughout North wholly owned subsidiaries include Laidlaw waste sys tems which was awarded the City of Winnipeg curbside recycling contract the company head office is located in Laidlaw is controlled by Canadian Pacific which has controlling interest in Vot ing As of August Laidlaw employed Laidlaw has been credited with initiating Large scale Recy cling programs in Southern Ontario with its Blue Box pro which now serves million Laidlaw has contracts with 550 municipalities in Canada and the United states to Lect solid waste from it has 34 solid waste Landfill Sites in North the company also has commercial and Industrial waste collection con tracts in six Canadian provinces and 16 its dark Blue waste bins can be found outside apartment blocks and shop Ping Laidlaw is the largest school bus operator in North carrying More than one million schoolchildren every company owns Grey Goose bus lines through its Laidlaw it also has Mas transit contracts with 34 source the financial Post Survey of industrials recyclers feeling trashed Weiye a recycling Box from Laidlaw and their recyclables will be picked up on local garbage Laidlaw will use 11 vehicles to pick up the material and the com Pany will hire 37 Fulland six to 10 Par time employees to pick up the another 10 people will be hired to work at a recycling spirit Steps up tin raising to mollify nil can sell plan on leap of Faith by John Douglas business reporter spirit of Manitoba has Hur ried up its fundraising efforts As a result of its meeting last week in new York with National hockey league commissioner Gary until spirit has said it wants raise million before adding million by 1997 and an other million after now spirit wants More than million in Cash and the rest pledged before we need million up front and i think we need to demonstrate there is More there in order to get the nil on spirit chairman Allan Sweatman the owners and the other governors read the papers and they see our position As 1aising million and they want to see i dont think i can sell it on million and a leap of we need to demonstrate to him that there will be million there by the time the building is that what it will take to make it City Council will be told today that spirit cannot wait any longer for Revenue Canada to Rule on foundation status for the fund and will proceed under the As sumption that donors will be Given a charitable receipt if Totey wish to support the endowment Revenue Canada has already Given the City of Winnipeg Charita ble people donating land or Money to the City Are eligible for a tax receipt that can be used to lower taxable income to a maximum of 20 per cent of the individuals spirit officials went to Ottawa monday to seek a clarification Deal ing with Winnipeg charitable Sta Sweatman there going through the he for were looking to give people a receipt based on a gift to the if Council gives its spirit plans to go Public with a Call to raise the million needed to cover future jets Harold spirits chief has to turn thousands of pledges into hard also he and others have to raise an other Sweatman also shot Down rumours spirit would be asking jets presi Dent Barry Shenkarow to extend the 15 deadline for closing the cur rent were not asking for any Sweatman the Only reason i would ask Barry for More time would be if we really had All our ducks in order and All we were wait ing for was the tax i ask Barry for More tiros to get More Ken free press Francis Kungu of Green Box recycling plants Jeff Golf Man Centre and James Zonneveld of red Box residents agree the Price is right by Wanda Chow staff reporter Muriel Street residents Arent Happy that local curb Side recyclers lost a bidding War for citywide service but the people living in West Winnipeg dont have any problem with the works and operations committee yesterday recommended that a million contract for citywide curb Side recycling services be awarded to Laidlaw waste systems the multinational company beat out two other bids backed by local Compa Nies that pioneered the service in Winnipeg on a Feero service Alex Ross said Cost had Long been a Factor in his resistance to having the service on a for fee but now that its he said he absolutely welcomed local companies de served the he they put work and Effort into they got curbside recycling in the City he they de serve better than to get pushed local people would take Pride in doing a Good Job in their own com which you might not get from a National he Don greening said local Compa Nies should have got the Job even if it meant paying a Little More since in the Long those companies would be keeping tax dollars in the prov Teresa Boughton i cant see the local bids being that much that wide of a Dif Ference in she theres no abundance of if theres work to be Given it should be to people i dont think you necessarily get better service from an International but you have to be realistic about the Cost of the Wanita fan in not saying i be willing to pay a bit More for a Cally owned but i still think you have to be she Tom Keough local people should have the maximum Opportunity to he but i would support local people As Long As there competitive within a Price Range that Rea but since the local companies were enterprising enough to Start the service in Winnipeg in the first they should be allowed to con Norma Reeves because then there going to be out of most people surveyed dont currently use curbside recycling ser vices because of their extra Cost but said they would use the free service from the Tiff be set sufficient some facts but the Blue curbside recycling program no charge curbside recycling will be available to All single fam ily Homes in True City by septem will be weekly collection of 12 recyclable including aluminium Glass plastic containers and steel con the Cost of running the pro Gram Over the five year contract will be covered by Sale of the Crown seeks to try youth As an adult teen charged with murder staff Joe free press youth pays homage yesterday to dead teen at murder a youth charged in the shot gun slaying of Joseph should be tried As an Manitoba senior Crown attorney said Rob said he would not discuss the crowns Rea sons for seeking a Transfer of the youth to adult that will not come out until the he transferring the 15yearold youth to adult court would mean he would face a minimum of 10 years in prison if As of first degree instead of a maximum sentence of five As a Young of the a permanent Ward of child and family made his first appearance yester Day in a tiny courtroom connected to the Manitoba youth the Small framed his head was dressed in a t shirt and sweat he appeared close to tears throughout the Brief he was remanded until Tomor Row after the youths Greg said he would need More time to study the Crown prosecutor Nancy Martin told court the Crown would oppose attempts to free the youth on police say Spence was killed around sunday when a Van filled with eight people pulled up beside after a Brief sex Spence was shot in the Back with a Winnipeg police spokesman Eric Turner said the vehicle has been recovered and the occupants inter he said further charges May be Brodsky was fuming As he stood before judge Murray Sinclair and argued excessive Media attention was harming the youths chances of a fair the actions of the police and the Media have been absolutely Brodsky add ing the local Media Are known to whip up a frenzy in reporting suspected Gan related i also have concerns about what Ive observed today in the Sinclair in Sinclair cited a photograph of the accused with a Black band Over his published in yesterdays Winnipeg Sinclair ordered the Crown to investigate whether the photo Vio lated the Young offenders act by identifying the police Are blaming the shooting on bad blood Between rival Ofir belief is the shooting occurred in retaliation for other events that occurred Between these Street gangs in the Turner ;