Paul Hart

The City is reviewing the extension of the lease with Paul Hart of DWR.The lease would terminate in the year 2007.

A locally owned waste removal company has more flexibility because they answer only to themselves , says DWR co-owner Paul Hart.Hart bought the company from his father , Sam , who bought it from Floyd Rogers originally.

However , a conglomerate-owned company gets better price breaks because it's dealing with more tonnage , he admits.

How does Davis compare.

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Currently , Hart says the landfill has plenty of room , a situation that is more rare throughout the urban parts of the state.

The contract - which runs through 2004 - the city has with DWR includes residential garbage and recycling , commercial garbage and recycling , brush pickup and street sweeping , as well as industrial/rolloff collection.In 2000 , 52 , 296 tons of material were removed , compared to 37 , 319 tons in 1988.

The house count for residential pickup reflects Davis' growth : 13 , 200 in 2000 ; 9 , 500 in 1988 ; 8 , 178 in 1980.Every weekday , between 13 and 20 trucks pick up the garbage and recycling in a city sector , joined by several brush crew operators and street sweepers.A garbage truck can do its entire route before unloading at the landfill , while a recycling truck usually makes two trips per route to the recycling warehouse at DWR headquarters on Second Street.
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Hart is proud that DWR is one of the training sites for Yolo County Employee Services , hiring developmentally challenged individuals and head trauma victims and teaching them basic job skills in the recycling part of the business.

Business of the year

The overall community participation and the high level of service provided by DWR helped it win the Business of the Year award in 2001 from the Davis Chamber of Commerce.But Hart is also touched by notes like the following one , written as a family was moving out of Davis :.

To the recycle man : Thank you for all your hard work over the years.We will miss you.If you want to consider a job transfer to Redding , get the route that includes Wilvern Lane.Or then again , maybe you'll want any route but that one.We appreciate all your extra work the last few weeks especially.Thanks again..

And there is nothing but good businesslike relations between the city and its franchised hauler, said Paul Hart, president of Davis Waste Removal.

No one seems to know when the local garbage company was founded, but Hart's father, Sam, a professor at the university, got into the business in 1972 as an agricultural engineering experiment.He incorporated the firm, and it evolved into a company with an exclusive contract for residential and commercial hauling and recycling.

It's an operation suited to the city, and Hart sees that as the secret to its success.

"We try to provide what Davis wants," Hart said."We don't have any interests outside town, and we don't want to be anywhere but Davis."

The city generates 2,000 tons of garbage per month, 800 tons of recyclables, and a like amount of yard waste, Hart said.That diversion plus the city's own programs and other accounting help Davis to exceed the state-required 50 percent recycling level.

Because Davis likes its source-separated, multiple-container curbside recycling program, Davis Waste Removal has not converted to automated collections.The city has, however, gone to a large, clean material recovery facility to handle its extensive recycling program.

The idea of recycling through a clean MRF so intrigued Davis residents when it was introduced 20 years ago that someone came up with the idea to hold a "Dinner at the Dump" fundraiser for local charities.
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"We do it every September, and it's always fun," Hart said."All the food is donated by local restaurants, and people sit around on the bales of recycled paper and cardboard we set out for them and eat this really great food."

This year's event was on Sept. 15.The organizers considered canceling it because of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, but decided to proceed.

"It was really moving, the sense of community," Hart said."We raised $35,000 for the Yolo Food Bank, and we set a big bottled water jug out in the middle of the floor and raised another $2,500 for the Red Cross."

Procurement activities with registered buyers

And there is nothing but good businesslike relations between the city and its franchised hauler, said Paul Hart, president of Davis Waste Removal.

No one seems to know when the local garbage company was founded, but Hart's father, Sam, a professor at the university, got into the business in 1972 as an agricultural engineering experiment.He incorporated the firm, and it evolved into a company with an exclusive contract for residential and commercial hauling and recycling.

It's an operation suited to the city, and Hart sees that as the secret to its success.

"We try to provide what Davis wants," Hart said."We don't have any interests outside town, and we don't want to be anywhere but Davis."

The city generates 2,000 tons of garbage per month, 800 tons of recyclables, and a like amount of yard waste, Hart said.That diversion plus the city's own programs and other accounting help Davis to exceed the state-required 50 percent recycling level.

Because Davis likes its source-separated, multiple-container curbside recycling program, Davis Waste Removal has not converted to automated collections.The city has, however, gone to a large, clean material recovery facility to handle its extensive recycling program.

The idea of recycling through a clean MRF so intrigued Davis residents when it was introduced 20 years ago that someone came up with the idea to hold a "Dinner at the Dump" fundraiser for local charities.
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"We do it every September, and it's always fun," Hart said."All the food is donated by local restaurants, and people sit around on the bales of recycled paper and cardboard we set out for them and eat this really great food."

This year's event was on Sept. 15.The organizers considered canceling it because of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, but decided to proceed.

"It was really moving, the sense of community," Hart said."We raised $35,000 for the Yolo Food Bank, and we set a big bottled water jug out in the middle of the floor and raised another $2,500 for the Red Cross."

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And there is nothing but good businesslike relations between the city and its franchised hauler, said Paul Hart, president of Davis Waste Removal.

No one seems to know when the local garbage company was founded, but Hart's father, Sam, a professor at the university, got into the business in 1972 as an agricultural engineering experiment.He incorporated the firm, and it evolved into a company with an exclusive contract for residential and commercial hauling and recycling.

It's an operation suited to the city, and Hart sees that as the secret to its success.

"We try to provide what Davis wants," Hart said."We don't have any interests outside town, and we don't want to be anywhere but Davis."

The city generates 2,000 tons of garbage per month, 800 tons of recyclables, and a like amount of yard waste, Hart said.That diversion plus the city's own programs and other accounting help Davis to exceed the state-required 50 percent recycling level.

Because Davis likes its source-separated, multiple-container curbside recycling program, Davis Waste Removal has not converted to automated collections.The city has, however, gone to a large, clean material recovery facility to handle its extensive recycling program.

The idea of recycling through a clean MRF so intrigued Davis residents when it was introduced 20 years ago that someone came up with the idea to hold a "Dinner at the Dump" fundraiser for local charities.
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"We do it every September, and it's always fun," Hart said."All the food is donated by local restaurants, and people sit around on the bales of recycled paper and cardboard we set out for them and eat this really great food."

This year's event was on Sept. 15.The organizers considered canceling it because of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, but decided to proceed.

"It was really moving, the sense of community," Hart said."We raised $35,000 for the Yolo Food Bank, and we set a big bottled water jug out in the middle of the floor and raised another $2,500 for the Red Cross."

Davis residents Paul Hart and Judy Gabor are outstanding community servants in the eyes of the city of Davis.
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Hart has been selected as the 2002 Citizen of the Year, and will receive the C.A. Covell Trophy for civic leadership, unselfish community service, dependability in commitments and broad involvement.
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Hart is co-owner of Davis Waste Removal and helps organize the annual Dinner at the Dump fund-raiser for local projects.He also is a member of Rotary International of Davis and a former member of the Early Bird Lions Club.He has served on the boards of Explorit Science Center and the Davis School Arts Foundation.

Hart has worked with developmentally disabled adults through the Vocational Training and Employment Board, and he helped lead the homeless shelter expansion during his service on the Davis Community Meals board.

As a member of the board that oversees All Things Right & Relevant, a consignment store that benefits 11 Yolo County mental health agencies, he is chairman of the committee planning a new building.

Hart also flies patients from remote areas for medical services.Many are cancer patients, he said, who need specialized care offered at medical centers that, by car, are several hours away from their homes.

"We can do it with much more comfort to the patient," he said.

Hart, a lifetime Davis resident, described the community as "a dynamic place with a lot of dynamic people doing dynamic things."

"I think my parents taught me years ago to give back to the community," he said about his involvement."The community has been good to me, and this is a way that I can give back."

Hart received the Brinley Award in 1993 and so far is the only winner of both awards, according to Deborah Dunham, who supervises the awards selection committee.
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Gabor and Hart were humble recipients in an interview this week with The Enterprise, saying they are just two of countless volunteers in the Davis community.