{"id":232291,"date":"2026-04-15T04:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232291\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T04:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:44:07","slug":"port-st-lucie-mayor-wants-24-million-from-trash-settlement-returned-to-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232291\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St Lucie mayor wants $24 million from trash settlement returned to residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WPTV spoke with the mayor of Port St. Lucie on Tuesday to get her thoughts on a recent multi-million dollar settlement with the city&#8217;s former trash hauler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mayor Shannon Martin said she wants $24 million from Friday&#8217;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/port-st-lucie-reaches-24-million-settlement-with-former-trash-hauler-waste-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">settlement with Waste Pro<\/a> to be returned to residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH BELOW: Mayor wants money from trash settlement returned to residents<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;I&#8217;m committed to making sure that our residents get paid back for what they had to deal with during that time,&#8221; Martin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The mayor said staff still need to discuss logistics and figure out how many households were affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the residents who went through all these issues and suffered as a result,&#8221; Martin said. &#8220;We want to make sure that we do it diligently, very efficiently and effectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But it&#8217;s a decision that Martin said will have to be determined by the entire city council. There&#8217;s no exact timeline for when the city council will discuss the $24 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Waste Pro is also urging the city to return the money to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IT WAS A MESS&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The settlement came after WPTV reported on Port St. Lucie&#8217;s trash troubles for years, which included missed garbage and recycling pickups during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;It was a mess,&#8221; said Port St. Lucie resident Bert Doward. &#8220;Trash would pile up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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":"WPTV spoke with the mayor of Port St. Lucie on Tuesday to get her thoughts on a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-232291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232291","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=232291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}