New Firm Will Deal With Shopping Carts
Keeping the city free of shopping carts has proved too costly for Costa Mesa, at least with the company it originally hired to do the job.
The City Council recently canceled its agreement with Unlimited Contracting Service, hired last year to collect carts and return them to the markets from which they strayed.
The council said it will save money by going with another company: Shopping Cart Retrieval Corp. City Manager Allan L. Roeder said the initial contract would have cost the city about $70,000 a year.
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