$24 million settlement the city<\/a> received from its former trash hauler, Waste Pro, after a legal dispute related to its prior solid waste collection contract.<\/p>\nWATCH BELOW: Residents to receive up to $364 credits from $24M settlement<\/p>\n
The city has begun mailing flyers to residents explaining the credits, which will be applied to the 2026-2027 tax bill.<\/p>\n
Scott Samples with the city said the full settlement amount is being returned to residents.<\/p>\n
“The city council is committed to giving all of the money back from that $24 million,” Samples said.<\/p>\n
Homeowners who have lived in Port St. Lucie since 2022 will receive the maximum credit of $364. That brings this year’s total waste assessment from around $482 down to $118 for those residents.<\/p>\n
“There are people who were most impacted, most directly, impacted residential property owners,” Samples said.<\/p>\n
Newer residents will receive a $64 credit.<\/p>\n
“Even though they may not have been here at that time, they were still having to pay a higher price than they would have if the contract had been honored,” Samples said.<\/p>\n
Homeowners who had title changes since 2022 and can prove continuous ownership will receive the $64 credit and may be eligible for additional credit.<\/p>\n
“They may be eligible for another $300 at a later time,” Samples said.<\/p>\n
Resident Steven Lombardi received the maximum credit of $364 and said he is cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n
“I’ll believe it when the credit comes,” Lombard said.<\/p>\n
Lombard said the savings are welcome, but he wishes the city had considered another use for the settlement money.<\/p>\n
“They could have put this to where they could have got us extra pickups; I’m sure people would have taken that,” Lombard said, referring to twice-weekly trash collection.<\/p>\n
Two-day trash pickup is up to voters through a straw ballot question this November in Port St Lucie.<\/p>\n
It’s non-binding \u2014 meaning it will serve as a recommendation for council to approve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of homeowners in Port St Lucie will be getting credits applied to their solid waste bills this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[153873,153872,153871,171,173,172,13810],"class_list":["post-384001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-cousin-pleads-guilty-to-girls-murder","tag-girl-found-dead-in-woods","tag-lily-peters","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384001","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=384001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}