Lewisville City Council amended an exclusive franchise agreement with the company, which has a location at 580 Huffines Blvd., on Jan. 22.
The move was made to unify trash services into one provider. On Nov. 15, 2021, the city assumed the exclusive franchise agreement for residential solid waste collection and recycling in the Castle Hills area when it was annexed into the city limits. The Castle Hills area had an existing contact with Community Waste Disposal, which runs through 2025.
The contract was set to expire April 6, 2024, but since neither side invoked a 90-day notice of termination, the contract was renewed through April 6, 2025, according to city documents.
The backstory
Lewisville first entered into an exclusive franchise agreement with Republic Series on Nov. 16, 2020, for collection of residential garbage, refuse, yard waste, bulk waste and recyclables.
However, with the Castle Hills annexation, there have been two providers within the city limits. The Castle Hills area does not have a contract for commercial solid waste and recycling services, so private businesses had to contract their own haulers, according to city documents.
Council started looking at consolidating into one service during a Sept. 18, 2023, meeting.
The approved plan will start both residential and commercial service with Republic throughout Lewisville on Feb. 1, 2025.
The details
Lewisville's Director of Public Services Aaron Russell said the city has worked with CWD and will end the contract early on Jan. 31, 2025, instead of April 6, 2025.
“This process is a little out of the ordinary, it’s not something we do every day, which is to amend a franchise agreement,” he said. “It requires two readings and a delay of 30 days after the second reading. That puts us into April of 2024 before the amendment actually takes place. The crux of this amendment is really terminating the CWD contract. The reason we're doing that is really about providing ample time for the commercial businesses to wind down those existing contracts that they have with their current haulers. We have multiple vendors shrinking it down into one. So we've gotten a lot of businesses that have to not only change vendors, but actually figure out what services are going to be with Republic Services.”
There will be a final rate adjusted for CWD customers in the Castle Hills area due to the forthcoming change, according to city documents.
To offset additional cost, there will be a 10.3% rate increase in the Castle Hills area effective April 1, 2024, as part of the proposed amendment, which becomes effective April 3, 2024.
The average monthly increase would be $2.62 per month, and each home would have one trash cart and one recycling cart, on average, according to documents.
What else?
Rates will also be going up for Republic Services customers, effective Feb. 1.
Lewisville customers will see a 2.4% hike in 2024, with the company basing the increase on the Garbage and Trash Index rates in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The June 2023 report reflected a 7.72% increase, as noted in a presentation during the Jan. 22 meeting.
Due to a franchise agreement with Republic Services, cost adjustments cannot increase more than 5% in any contract year or 15% in any four consecutive years.
