In a decision made late last year, the City of Summerville City Council awarded a multi-year bid for sanitation services, while signaling that sanitation fees will be reviewed and potentially adjusted later this year during the city’s mid-year budget process. City leaders said the approach gives residents and businesses time to look over possible changes before any new rates take effect.

During the meeting, a motion was made to award the Solid Waste Bid to Wright’s Sanitation. City Manager Winters explained the city’s previous three-year solid waste contract with Wright’s expired on October 10, 2025, and the city solicited bids for a new contract. Only one bid was submitted, from Wright’s Sanitation, at $17.00 per month for curbside residential collection, along with additional rates for other solid waste services.

Winters said the new contract would terminate on June 30, 2029, aligning the service period with the city’s full fiscal-year cycle, and staff recommended approving the bid. Council members emphasized they wanted to wait until mid-year to decide on any fee increases, with Council Member Joe Money, Jr. saying he preferred to hold off so “everyone [has] time to review them,” a view echoed by Mayor Pro Tem Zachary Martin and supported by Council Members Mosley and Adams.

Winters said staff has projections for different rate scenarios and that one option is to defer changes until the mid-year budget review. The council agreed to take up the issue of rates during the mid-year budget process.