{"id":307217,"date":"2026-06-14T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307217\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:45:09","slug":"port-st-lucie-leaders-to-decide-how-to-spend-24-million-waste-pro-settlement-at-monday-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307217\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie leaders to decide how to spend $24 million Waste Pro settlement at Monday meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Port St. Lucie city leaders will meet Monday, June 15, to decide how to use a <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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$24 million settlement from former trash hauler Waste Pro<\/a>, including whether any funds could be returned to residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The City Council will hold a special meeting Monday at 6 p.m. at City Hall to consider options for the settlement money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH WPTV&#8217;S COVERAGE BELOW:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The settlement, announced in April, resolves a years-long legal dispute between the city and Waste Pro over its previous solid waste collection contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As part of the agreement, Waste Pro will pay the city $24 million, and both sides agreed to dismiss the lawsuit and release each other from any remaining claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The deal follows years of complaints from Port St. Lucie residents about missed garbage and recycling pickups, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Waste Pro previously cited staffing shortages, while city officials said the company failed to meet its contractual obligations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/port-st-lucie-mayor-wants-24-million-from-trash-settlement-returned-to-residents?fbclid=IwZnRzaASaqExleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeX2ZB6EKQgBcjWi8fueoE7Plg_bF47RIze6FEmVZSgRHcuuGJoznB5m64tcc_aem_M5oJ5NtbYWjm1uDXp3XzHA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In April, Mayor Shannon Martin told WPTV <\/a>she supports the idea of returning the money to residents who experienced service issues, but said any decision would be made by the full City Council.<\/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;So we want to make sure that we do it diligently, very efficiently and effectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Monday\u2019s meeting is open to the public and will take place at Port St. Lucie City Hall, located at 121 SW Port St. Lucie Blvd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie city leaders will meet Monday, June 15, to decide how to use a $24 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-307217","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\/307217","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=307217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}