Since last summer, commissioners have complained about FCC, which is under a county contract through 2024. County Attorney Randy Mink sent the company a letter saying they’ve defaulted on their agreement and asked that they show improvement within 30 days.

Yikes – but this part we knew. However, it has gotten worse: (Note Commissioner = Supervisor in CA. Combee and Braswell are Commissioners in Polk County)

Since then, “it’s gotten worse,” Commissioner Bill Braswell said Friday.

“They are making us look like a bunch of fools,” added Combee.

He pointed out that FCC recently signed a contract with neighboring Hillsborough County to pick up household trash there.

He directed county staff to get a copy of the Hillsborough contract to present to the commission.

“They don’t have enough equipment to get the job done, but they can go over to Hillsborough County?” said Combee. “They’re serving a lot of customers over there. So they’ve got trucks; they’ve got equipment. They can start picking up in Hillsborough County, but they can’t get us serviced. That’s unacceptable.”

The bottom line, it looks like a neighboring county is doing OK but FCC can’t handle their S–t in Polk County.

But it’s not as simple as firing the company. FCC currently collects trash from 78,456 households on the west side of the county. Before the county terminates, they’d have to find another company able to handle FCC’s responsibilities.

That could be a challenge, Beasley has advised the commission.

“We don’t have access to the resources,” he repeated Friday.

County spokeswoman Mianne Nelson said the county is doing all it can to avoid terminating the company, which would likely result in litigation.

So, FCC got a contract with Polk County. They are not performing and now the county knows FCC will sue them for terminating the contract! Note – FCC has sued other jurisdictions as well, we’ve written about it.

“I’m sorry that we are still discussing this,” Commissioner Martha Santiago said Friday.

Commissioner George Lindsey said that previous efforts to bring the company into compliance haven’t worked. Now it’s time to dig deeper, he said.

He suggested relieving FCC of some of their duties. Perhaps the county could start handling bulk and yard waste pick up in the short-term and let FCC focus only on household trash bins, he said.

This is coming to Placer County and based on past performance, Northern Roseville is going to reek due to their composting methods.

Why is this happening? It sure looks like the staff of the District got caught and then doubled down.

Don’t worry though, your intrepid blogger will be right here to remind everyone when history repeats itself.