Town Clerk, councillors in standoff over rehiring of garbage contractors

Carol Sooba

Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba and the Mayor and City Councillors remain at an impasse over the reinstatement of waste management contractors Cevon’s and Darthmouth Rentals, whose services she terminated earlier this month.

Sooba and councillors faced off during the council’s statutory meeting on Monday, when a motion was passed by a majority vote for the two contracts to be handed back to Cevon’s and Darthmouth even as the Town Clerk maintained that they do not have the authority to re-engage the two services.

“Mr. Mayor I am advising you to speak the truth. Under the law, you and the councillors are not the authority to enter into any