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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike2633, post: 9831321, member: 117804&quot;]That&#039;s basically where my city is at the Republic Services is 100K a year cheaper right now then what it would cost the city to get back into it. What&#039;s stupid though is, why sell assets that you already have and own? Prior to the switch in 2012 the city owned and operated all the equipment, which, the city did say that it wasn&#039;t the equipment and vehicles or the cost of disposing of garbage/ recyclables at the landfill that was the problem, there claim was it was costing them to much in overtime and workers comp. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had an interview at the end of 2014 to work for The City of Rocky River, I wasn&#039;t hired because as a private sector truck driver I was making well well well above there top pay scale which there top pay scale was like $21.00 an hour. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, the nice woman at city hall did say overtime opportunities were plentiful and there was always something to do. Also I have a Class A CDL which made me more valuable to them, because I could run from the transfer station to the landfill the city has 3 tractor trailers and operates it&#039;s own transfer station which is very popular with the residents.&nbsp; The point was the woman basically said yeah we don&#039;t pay alot, but we have lots of overtime and we have a very generous vacation package at the time the vacation package at the city was million times better then the beer distributor I was working for couldn&#039;t even compare, the beer distributor I worked for benefits wise wasn&#039;t the worst, but the city had the edge I though on quality of life and vacation time hands down. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not 100% convinced that outsourcing is cheapest in the long run. Like with my city even if say it wasn&#039;t cheaper to have a contractor I bet they would still have one, because of the simple fact if they have a contractor then guess what, that makes the city not responsible. What it really is, is they don&#039;t want the operational day to day headache. All costs the city does ultimately pay, but its not on there books so they can claim yeah were saving dough. No overtime payouts. Well there is overtime payouts it&#039;s just on some one elses books and it&#039;ll be added in when it comes for next years price increase. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;My opinion is outsourcing at any level public or private a lot of private corporations outsource to private companies too, but I think a lot of it was a myth and was just a way to do creative accounting to make it look like pseudo savings were occurring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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