Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said he met with Priority Waste leadership, including their COO, this week. It comes after Hammoud said earlier this month the city would not pay the company until their service is reliable.
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“Our residents are getting extremely frustrated. Our call center cannot sustain the number of calls that are coming in each day about missed pick-ups,” the mayor told 7 News Detroit on Aug. 1.
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He also said on Aug. 1 that the city of Dearborn will now bill Priority Waste for the time city employees have spent helping with waste backlog.
In an update posted on Aug. 14, Hammoud said that Dearborn requires 17 trucks and daily drivers to complete the routes, and as of Aug. 14, they only had 15.