The Fresno City Council is set to vote Thursday on a second extension of a controversial trash deal that has prompted other waste haulers to demand rate increases of their own.
The proposed agreement with Orange Avenue Disposal, a company owned by the politically influential Caglia family, would extend its contract by one year to dispose of city residential waste to a facility near Kerman through 2035. The deal also includes provisions for future price hikes, tied to new regulations, that would be charged to the city.
The deal represents the latest chapter in how the city’s two-decade-old experiment with privatizing trash hauling has helped fund political campaigns but not the city’s finances…