Thread: Trash Piles Up

Eatonville is a primarily black town here in Florida! It's basically becoming a landfill. Enjoy!

Eatonville trash piles up as mayor, council relations keep crumbling

Daphne Sashin | Sentinel Staff Writer

November 6, 2008

EATONVILLE - On the second day of the town's trash-service disruption, Town Council members intensified their rebuke of the mayor for a debacle he said they caused.

Mayor Anthony Grant said Wednesday he hoped, but couldn't promise, that service would resume today. He said he was waiting for Waste Services Inc. to approve the contract he sent the company Tuesday.

Meanwhile, faced with hundreds of commercial dumpsters and household garbage bins overflowing with trash, Vice Mayor Bruce Mount and council member Eddie Cole said they were forced to intervene on the public's behalf.

At an emergency meeting Wednesday afternoon -- which Grant declined to attend -- they said they spoke with Waste Services and would contact the town attorney to make sure the contract was executed. They called another emergency meeting for today at 7 a.m. if the contract had not been approved.

The lapse in service occurred because the town's contract with the previous hauler, Republic Waste Services, expired Oct. 31, but the council did not approve the Waste Services contract until Monday.

Grant said former public-works director Roger Dixon was working with Republic to ensure a smooth transition, but the council got rid of Dixon on Oct. 21.

Republic never heard from anyone until the council approved an exclusive contract with Waste Services -- meaning Republic could no longer provide service.

"You don't dismiss the public-works director in the middle of contract negotiations," Grant said. "We don't have the depth of a Maitland or Winter Park or Ocoee. We have one public-works administrator. That's it. Not a No. 2, not a No. 3."

Council members said the contract should have been in place long before Dixon was fired. Each side accused the other of sabotaging Town Hall operations.

One resident, Julius Dix, said he hoped Grant and the council could resolve their differences.

"The citizens are suffering because someone didn't follow through," said Dix, 61. "The council just needs to work together with the mayor so we can get the services we need."


Daphne Sashin can be reached at dsashin@orlandosentinel.com or 407-650-6361.

It was a dirty place before, now it really is a dump!

Originally Posted by ReproMan

Hehe, the article started off like the warnings you get in SimCity when you've neglected to build a landfill. Eatonville needs to get on that shit, it's only $25 a tile.