Derby owes City Carting $39,000 because residents bring more stuff to the city’s transfer station than allowed by contract.
City Carting operates the Derby transfer station on Pine Street. Residents and contractors doing jobs for Derby residents dump items their, which are then trucked out by City Carting for permanent disposal elsewhere.
The contract between City Carting and City Hall sets an annual maximum capacity at 1,000 tons.
Derby has exceeded that by 500 tons.
City Carting has been trying to collect on the bill for months, Rich Antonucci, a City Carting representative, told the Board of Aldermen in June.
Aldermen — particularly Barbara DeGennaro and Stephen Iacuone — questioned the way the contract was written and wondered why City Carting didn’t warn the city they were approaching the limit.
In addition, the Aldermen wondered why Derby set the maximum capacity in the contract to just 1,000 tons per year.
Antonucci told the Aldermen City Carting is willing to cut the city break. They’ll let the $39,000 bill go unpaid if the Aldermen allowed a few outside garbage trucks to use the transfer station.
Antonucci said the trucks would likely be other garbage companies picking up from local shopping centers. It would be a small number of trucks. Neighbors wouldn’t notice an increase in truck traffic, Antonucci promised.
Antonucci appeared at the Derby Aldermen meeting again July 26, this time with paperwork showing how much Derby dumps at the transfer station each month.
However, the Aldermen still didn’t give an answer on the $39,000 bill.
Alderman Iacuone said he wanted more document from City Carting as to how much stuff goes in and out of the station other than what Derby residents bring in there.
Antonucci previously ran the transfer station when it was run by Annex Associates.
