Posts Tagged “National Serv-All”

As I’ve commented earlier, any savings the city would have realized from contracting Earth First for the garbage contract would not have been passed on to Fort Wayne residents.

Now comes this.

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Tags: Earth First, Jerry Henry, National Serv-All, Tom Henry

From Talk of the Town

A thrill more than two years in the making was realized for a new Whitley County business Tuesday night as Whitley Environmental was awarded the $2.2 million recycling contract through the Whitley County Solid Waste Management District.

It’s worth the read. Go here.

Tags: Earth First, National Serv-All

From King Henry’s office comes this:

Fort Wayne, Ind. – The City of Fort Wayne has reached an agreement with National Serv-All to provide garbage and recycling collection services for 2010 at 2009 rates. National Serv-All’s current four-year contract with the City expires December 31, 2009. The proposed one-year deal, which requires approval by the Board of Works, would freeze rates at current levels, and calls for monthly meetings to improve service.

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Tags: Earth First, Gregg Walbridge, Jerry Henry, National Serv-All, Paul Lagemann, Tom Henry

No time today, and we also need to do a little more research. Stay tuned.

Tags: Earth First, Gregg Walbridge, Jerry Henry, National Serv-All, Paul Lagemann, Tom Henry

I decided to take time from cleaning the gutters today to give a small retrospective of Mayor Henry’s term in office. I’ve listed below some of Henry’s major non-accomplishments. It’s not all-encompassing, so feel free to add your thoughts in the comments section.

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Tags: Budget, Earth First, Fort Wayne City Council, Glynn Hines, Gregg Walbridge, Hardball Capital, Harrison Square, I&M, Jerry Henry, John Shoaff, Jon A. Bragalone, Karen Goldner, Liz Brown, Marty Bender, Monosodium Glutamate, National Serv-All, Tim Pape, Tom Didier, Tom Henry, Vince Robinson

As the raging debate over Fort Wayne’s garbage contract continues, there are a couple of areas of interest worth looking at. The first is minor, but worth pointing out.

The Henry administration has hired H.J. Umbaugh & Associates to study Earth First’s financial health. This begs two questions.

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Tags: Earth First, Fort Wayne City Council, Jerry Henry, Karen Goldner, National Serv-All, Summit Recycling, Tom Henry

Long, but worth the listen. Click here.

For the record, Dean is the brother of Vince Robinson, Fort Wayne Public Information Officer.

Tags: Citilink, Dean Robinson, Earth First, Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne City Council, Karen Goldner, Liz Brown, National Serv-All, Tim Pape, Tom Didier, Tom Henry, Vince Robinson

Karen Goldner has revealed why she doesn’t think Earth First would cut it as the city’s garbage vender, via FWP.

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Tags: Earth First, Jerry Henry, Jon A. Bragalone, Karen Goldner, National Serv-All, Tom Henry

Tom Didier hit it on the head at council Tuesday night when he said “why could you just tell us that?” He summed up the way the Henry Administration handles matters: they hide details, they mislead, they withhold.

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Tags: Earth First, Fort Wayne City Council, Glynn Hines, John Shoaff, Karen Goldner, Liz Brown, Marty Bender, Mitch Harper, National Serv-All, Tim Pape, Tom Didier, Tom Henry, Tom Smith

In an article by Ben Lanka this morning, Tim Pape is just now admitting one of his business partners owns 5% of Earth First. On top of that, his law firm represents them. We should have caught that when we posted here, who was the registered agent of Earth First.

Jon A. Bragalone
1400 One Summit Square
Fort Wayne , IN 46802

Bragalone is an attorney with Carson Boxberger, LLP along with councilman Pape.

Pape disclosed that one of his law partners represents Earth First and is a 5 percent owner of the company.

He said it was a good thing the city has received competition for this service and noted that Earth First’s proposal was the least expensive of all the others.

“If we get competition for the garbage contract, we save millions,” Pape said.

Question. How would he know it was millions unless he saw the contract?

Now, City Council Attorney Joe Bonahoom is stating that the RFP process should not have been used, and the contract should be re-bid. We questioned the use of an RFP yesterday.

This is a $9 million a year contract, and typically cities issue a call for competitive bids for contracts of this scope. This contract was not placed for bid. Instead, there was a call for “request-for-proposals,” or RFP’s. This allowed the city to pick whomever they deem best suited for the job.

Also, on WOWO last FWP is reporting he heard that Gregg Walbridge, president of Earth First stated Jerry Henry has given up his 5% stake in the company. I assume he still owns the transfer station, Summit Recycling.

Lanka is also reporting that the city is once again sitting down again with National Serv-all to discuss extending their existing contract.

Here’s a point I’ve not hit on. Personally, I don’t think the city should be in the garbage business. Let private enterprise determine who services the residents. I liked it better when I had a choice. But no, Graham Richard had to buy 80,000 containers at a cost of $3.7 million to make sure the streets looked pretty and all of the dumpsters were one color.

Why not require residents to use a dumpster from whichever service they use and get the hell out of the garbage business?

Tags: Earth First, Fort Wayne City Council, Jerry Henry, Jon A. Bragalone, National Serv-All, Tim Pape, Tom Henry

Here is a recap.

Jerry Henry, an honest guy, but a tough businessman, is said, by opponent Mark GiaQuinta, to be a principle of Earth First, the company which was low bidder for the city garbage contract. Gregg Walbridge, a real estate developer is the managing partner of the recently formed company. I heard a third name, but can not remember it. Earth First is also the name of the earth liberation people who burn buildings in Colorado. I love their work. This Earth First has no trucks and no dump, but can get a loan to rent trucks and will pay a dump fee to the Republic site. I also heard that there is a key player who owns the land to the north of the Republic dump who will greatly benefit from this as his land will now become more valuable, they say, I do not remember that name either, but the tax rolls should shed some light. GiaQuinta said the money in garbage is made by the landfill operator, not the hauler.

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Tags: Earth First, Fort Wayne, Gregg Walbridge, Jerry Henry, LLC, National Serv-All, Tom Henry, Waste Management