Would-be trash contractor misleads public with propaganda

GREENSBORO, NC --- Gate City Waste Service, LLC really wants to secure a contact to dispose of Greensboro's garbage in a reopened White Street Landfill. When the contract seemed in jeopardy because councilperson Nancy Vaughan's previously recused vote was put back into play by a decision from the city attorney, Gate City took steps to manipulate the process by adding items to their proposal that would likely, once again, prohibit Vaughan from voting, probably ensuring a city council 4-to-3-with-2-abstaining majority in favor of Gate City (barring lawsuits).

But Gate City wants us to know it has all been on the up and up and just to make sure we, the sheep, know it, Gate City took out a full page ad in the Rhino Times offering "THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WHITE STREET LANDFILL."

One of the "truths" offered in the ad is this:

The Gate City response IS THE LOWEST bid received by the City for their waste. [Emphasis in original.]

According the the Rhinoceros Times and the independent firm hired to evaluate all proposals, that is not true. Another bidder offered the lowest net cost.

From the independent evaluation of all proposals: