Yorkville, Oswego to bid for garbage collection together

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Updated: March 18, 2012 8:17AM

YORKVILLE — Oswego and Yorkville are taking a big step in municipal cooperation by bidding their next garbage collection contracts together.

The Yorkville City Council this week approved having both municipalities seek a new contract at the same time. Oswego approved the joint request for proposals last week.

The bidding will be done in such a way that both cities can reject or accept any proposals, and could end up doing it independently anyway. But there is a chance both towns can accept a proposal from the same vendor together, possibly saving money.

“Hopefully this will be a model of communities working together,” said Yorkville Mayor Gary Golinski.

According to the document, Yorkville asks for quotes for one main program, with one alternate quote, while Oswego is asking for three different programs.

Officials are asking for a bid on every possible combination of the options.

But by bidding the different options, officials in both towns can decide if they want to change or take the same bid to save money. The assumption is that waste haulers will lower prices to get both cities.

Yorkville’s current waste-hauling contract with Veolia expires April 30, and Oswego’s contract ends June 30.

The bids are due April 9.