Your Briarwood HOA Board recently signed a Preferred Provider Agreement
with Waste Connections to provide trash service to our HOA residents. The
special rate for our Briarwood residents is $39 per quarter ($13 per month) for
weekly curbside service with the usual 95-gallon trash container. The
Agreement has the $39 per quarter price frozen for two years. After that time
there will be a 5% increase each year to the end of the five year contract,
which is significantly less than the recently increased rates of Air Capital. The
Agreement with Waste Connections has an effective date of December 1, 2022.
If you pay Waste Connections for a year in advance, you
will receive one month free. This would equate to a cost of
only $35.75 per quarter for trash service.
There are Briarwood/Lost Creek residents who are already customers of
Waste Connections. Some are paying more than $39/quarter so their rates
will be lowered at their next billing cycle. Some Briarwood residents have
a special rate from years ago. We made sure those lower rates will not be
increased from your current rate. In fact, you will also receive the benefit of a
two year freeze on your rates as part of the Agreement. It is my understanding
those special rates will be increased at other HOAs.
Are you required to switch your trash service to Waste
Connections? No, you are not. I believe we currently have
three trash companies come through the neighborhood -
Air Capital, Waste Connections and Ballingers. If all
residents use one service it will reduce the traffic of trash
trucks in our neighborhood which also means less wear
and tear on our streets.
Plus, if we get to 95% participation, we will receive trash service for the
neighborhood pool and all park trash carts free. For these
reasons, in addition to cost, we encourage you to change
your trash service to Waste Connections. If you currently
have a service other than Waste Connections then you will
undoubtedly save money by switching to Waste