The already-laughingstock San Francisco trash can replacement drama is getting less resolution instead of more, as more new proposed bin models are now littering the landscape.
Former supervisor Matt Haney proposed the Department of Sanitation and Streets to break that duty away from Public Works. The supervisors will vote to make it a reality on Tuesday, though ironically, it will now be a department within Public Works.
The Recology Portal To Sign Up For Your ‘Mohammed Nuru Rebate’ Is Now Open
That $100 million in settlement dollars from allegedly mistaken over-charges is now going out to Recology customers over an online portal, though the company claims they’ll send you a check if you do nothing before July 30.
One of the bright sides of the Mohammed Nuru Public Works scandal and the resulting federal bribery charges against Recology officials was the early March news that SF Recology customers would be reimbursed for rate hikes that may have been inappropriately approved by Nuru. City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s $100 million settlement deal, which was approved by the Board of Supervisors in May, included a $7 million payment to the city, and set aside $94.5 million for anyone who’d been an SF Recology customer between July 1, 2017, and March 31, 2021. Payments to individual customers will reportedly average $190 apiece.