{"id":48269,"date":"2021-03-23T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=48269"},"modified":"2021-03-23T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:43:48","slug":"contract-for-cortes-garbage-collection-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/contract-for-cortes-garbage-collection-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract for Cortes Garbage collection awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy L Hales<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agenda.strathconard.ca\/SRDAttachments\/SRDBoard\/Open\/BRD\/10-Mar-21\/20210222-Cortes-Island-Refuse-Collection---Contract-Award.pdf\">The Strathcona Regional District awarded the contract for garbage collection on Cortes Island\u00a0<\/a>to Margaret Verschuur\u2019s company, \u00a0VEM Contracting, which has held this contract for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48283\" style=\"width: 1048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1044-1038x576-1.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"One of the streets where garbage is collected on Cortes Island - Roy L Hales\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48283\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48283\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1044-1038x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"Garbage collecting\" width=\"1038\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1044-1038x576-1.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1044-1038x576-1-500x277.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1044-1038x576-1-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_1044-1038x576-1-320x178.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the streets where garbage is collected on Cortes Island - Roy L Hales<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Four companies were asked to submit quotes for a 3-year contract, with a potential 2-year extension, if agreed upon by both parties.<\/p>\n<p>VEM Contracting was the only company that responded and the SRD Board approved this contract at their March 10, 2021, board meeting.<\/p>\n<h2>Links of interest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/agenda.strathconard.ca\/SRDAttachments\/SRDBoard\/Open\/BRD\/10-Mar-21\/20210222-Cortes-Island-Refuse-Collection---Contract-Award.pdf\">(SRD) Staff report and the contract with VEM Contracting for Cortes Island refuse collection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy L Hales The Strathcona Regional District awarded the contract for garbage collection on Cortes Island\u00a0to Margaret Verschuur\u2019s company, \u00a0VEM Contracting, which has held this contract for more than a decade. Four companies were asked to submit quotes for a 3-year contract, with a potential 2-year extension, if agreed upon by both parties. VEM&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":48288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[314,7484],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48269"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=48269"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=48269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}