{"id":234335,"date":"2026-04-16T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:06:10","slug":"port-st-lucie-mayor-wants-24-million-from-trash-settlement-returned-to-residents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234335\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie mayor wants $24 million from trash settlement returned to residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WFLX spoke with the mayor of Port St. Lucie on Tuesday to get her thoughts on a recent multi-million dollar settlement with the city\u2019s former trash hauler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mayor Shannon Martin said she wants $24 million from Friday\u2019s settlement with Waste Pro to be returned to residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m committed to making sure that our residents get paid back for what they had to deal with during that time,\u201d 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\">\u201cIt\u2019s the residents who went through all these issues and suffered as a result,\u201d Martin said. \u201cWe want to make sure that we do it diligently, very efficiently and effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But it\u2019s a decision that Martin said will have to be determined by the entire city council. There\u2019s 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>\u201cIT WAS A MESS\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The settlement came after WFLX reported on Port St. Lucie\u2019s trash troubles for years, which included missed garbage and recycling pickups during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt was a mess,\u201d said Port St. Lucie resident Bert Doward. \u201cTrash would pile up.\u201d<\/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":"WFLX 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":["post-234335","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\/234335","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=234335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234335\/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=234335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}