The rumors are true: Waste Management is taking over parts of San Joaquin County.

"We put it out to bid because we had some issues where actually city residents were across the street from county residents and they kind of started the conversation, 'How are the city folks paying less than the county folks, and the services weren't as good?'" San Joaquin County District 2 Board Supervisor Paul Canepa said.

After lots of negotiations, the county approved the switch from Republic Services to Waste Management late last year.

"We had a criteria of looking at price, services and local hire preference," San Joaquin County Public Works Deputy Director of Operations David Tolliver explained. "A multi-departmental committee was part of the selection process and we made a decision to select Waste

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