Posts Tagged “Summit Recycling”

It was quite a show at council last night as some 65 residents of the near east side, neighbors to the recycling transfer site, vented their anger. And, they were angry.

The roar started almost as soon as Council President Tom Smith opened the mic last night to citizen comment. One after another minister and a few private citizens parade to the mic to chastise council members for approving the placement of a transfer site in their neighborhood, on the site of the old Pontiac Street Fruehauf/Fort Wayne Foundry campus. Only problem was that council had not approved it. That, however didn’t seem to matter. Nor did civility.

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Rick Stevenson, the self-proclaimed altruistic savior of Wayne Township penned an article in Frost Illustrated today. His complaint is with Summit Recycling & Transfer on Pontiac Street, which as you all (should) know is a Jerry Henry enterprise.

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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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Earth First, LLC. Preferred vendor in the bidding for Fort Wayne’s trash contract. Partner: Summit City Recycling & Transfer, LLC.

- Both new companies.
- No experience.
- Owned in part by Jerry (Jerome) Henry, Jr., the mayor’s brother.
- First in line for the new garbage contract with the city.
- If they get the award, the county will lose about about $105,000 in revenue from tipping fees.
- A waste-transfer facility on Pontiac Street, glad I don’t live nearby.

Folks, this has been in the planning stages for longer than one might think.

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