settlement with Waste Pro<\/a> to be returned to residents.<\/p>\nWATCH BELOW: Mayor wants money from trash settlement returned to residents<\/p>\n
Port St Lucie mayor wants money from trash settlement returned to residents<\/p>\n
“I’m committed to making sure that our residents get paid back for what they had to deal with during that time,” Martin said.<\/p>\n
The mayor said staff still need to discuss logistics and figure out how many households were affected.<\/p>\n
“It’s the residents who went through all these issues and suffered as a result,” Martin said. “We want to make sure that we do it diligently, very efficiently and effectively.”<\/p>\n
But it’s a decision that Martin said will have to be determined by the entire city council. There’s no exact timeline for when the city council will discuss the $24 million.<\/p>\n
Waste Pro is also urging the city to return the money to taxpayers.<\/p>\n
“IT WAS A MESS”<\/p>\n
The settlement came after WPTV reported on Port St. Lucie’s trash troubles for years, which included missed garbage and recycling pickups during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
“It was a mess,” said Port St. Lucie resident Bert Doward. “Trash would pile up.”<\/p>\n
Waste Pro blamed pandemic staffing shortages, but the city said it breached its contract for the standard of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 WPTV spoke with the mayor of Port St. Lucie on Tuesday to get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-231877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}