One man's trash can is another man's misleading news story.
The cost of West Vancouver's new garbage cans was overstated in a TV news story, according to a municipal press release.
A Global BC report stated West Vancouver was shelling out $400,000 for 200 garbage cans over the next three years.
Those figures are false, according to the district.
The first 53 garbage cans, bought this year to help handle the increasing quantities of trash being tossed out in West Van's parks, carried a price tag of approximately $101,000.
The new, bigger cans are equipped with springloaded lids and intended to keep household garbage out of public cans and adapt to recycling programs.
The district has no plans to buy more cans in 2015.
The municipality also disputes the notion there was no public call for bids. The district posted its intention to buy garbage cans on the BC Bids website which allowed interested suppliers to offer their services.
West Vancouver has also garnered headlines recently for spending more per person and collecting more tax per resident than any other Metro Vancouver municipality, according to a Fraser Institute report. However, West Vancouver has kept property tax increases to a total of four per cent over the last five budgets, pointed out Coun. Michael Lewis.
Lewis recently proposed a plan to reduce district spending by 10 per cent over the next four years.
