Quote$750 million no-bid contract has nine lives
Mayor John Peyton's administration is stubbornly continuing down a path that could cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
An administration official told me this week that Peyton still wants to award a lucrative landfill contract, perhaps worth as much as $750 million, to Waste Management, the current operator of the city's Trail Ridge Landfill, without opening the process to other bidders.
Pushing a no-bid contract on something worth that much is insane, especially since others in the garbage business say they could do the job for less money.
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Typical Peyton good ol' boy politics. I hope we're ready for the next blonde boy wonder mayor.