Hope:
I remember Gabordi standing in the pool, wearing a shirt over his tubby top. And people avoiding talking to him, because he was nothing more than a wannabe influence peddler.

Spoke volumes about his total lack of credibility.

And to think some people want these people to run the state. Probably be the same people who will cry when 60% of their paycheck (if they’re even employed) winds up going to taxes.

Thats it Maven!
From this moment on I’m adopting your genius name “Mayor Flintstone”!
Honestly I was struggling to come up with an appropriate name for him and was never quite happy with my lame attempts.
Mayor Flintstone: GENIUS!!!!

And that should be the front page news story, but crickets from our fake news.

Could it be because Gabordi was one of the main participants front and center at the Water Buffalo parties?

Kim & Mayda Williams have had a longtime presence at the annual Chamber of Crony Capitalists Confab. They sponsor the Water Buffalo party. And they’re big in United Way too.
If they chose NOT to move those influence dollars off the income sheet, perhaps they could have avoided this shortage, and saved the taxpayers?

Priorities.

Mayor Flintstone extracts another $750K from Taxahasseans!
Yabba
Dabba
DOO!

What you said Thomas is 100% why the commissioners are discussing the recycling program.
The “reasons facts and situations” being thrown out for public consumption is 100% BS.
Some of the public always will believe because they want to.
But bottom line is Marpan is tainted due to the FBI and no longer able to gift or provide inappropriate financial contributions to our current Commissioners. But they sure do weave a almost believable tale of lies as they carefully slow roll Marpan out of the picture and begin the search to replace Marpan with a company that can inappropriately enrich our current Commissioners.
Sorry about your feelings to all the believers out there. But somewhere in the back of your minds you believers know the truth.

“Documents provided to the FBI show that Paige Carter-Smith was copied on several city emails dealing with the City’s “Request for Proposals/Recyclable Materials Processing Services” which was ultimately awarded to Marpan Recycling in February 2013.

Ms. Carter-Smith was the only non-bidder copied on the email. The email address used by Carter-Smith was “paige@govinc.net” which is an email associated with Governance, a government consulting firm.

Governance was owned by City Commissioner Scott Maddox until it was sold to Carter-Smith in 2010.

You are absolutely correct. So long as raw material remains cheaper than recycled product, Business 101 will rule the day. Most recycled material is crushed into blocks and shipped off to the Philippines… and usually dumped into the ocean in-route anyway. It’s quite sad and ironic really. A Refuse to Energy plant conversion would go a long way, and makes sense.

A smart entrepreneur might consider accepting all the plastic recycling material, then melting and molding it into the actual cabbage and recycling containers we use. The city and the county would likely structure a purchasing agreement for the cans.

Not sure we have the visionary thinkers necessary to accomplish this however.