Washington, D.C., may as well be flushing cash down the toilet, as a portable restroom provider abandoned its duties due to back payments being clogged in the bureaucratic pipeline, the company says.
Gotta Go Now, a portable toilet provider, has stopped cleaning the 40 toilets in Washington’s tent cities under the purview of the Department of Public Works and the Office of Contract and Procurement, which are four to five months behind in paying their bills, the company said. However, GGN continues to clean the 20 toilets controlled by the city’s Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, which has been up to date on payments.
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Fred Hill, the owner of GGN, said he repeatedly contacted the non-paying agencies and so far has not received a response, according to ABC 7 News.
“As a business owner, that’s a slap in the face because I count and watch every penny, every dollar, and unfortunately we have people in the government who get their checks every two weeks who don’t want to make sure we get ours,” Hill told the outlet. “It’s not fair.”
Providing service to the portable toilets includes vacuuming them out, replacing their fluids, and installing new paper products every day. The cost for each toilet runs at about $120 per week, and with only one agency paying its bills to GGN, Hill says the company recently had to fire three employees, per the outlet.
Mayor Muriel Bowser at first said officials would need to investigate, but “we pay what we owe.” Bowser’s office later told the outlet that agencies that owe money are attempting to schedule a meeting with Hill.
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As of January 2020, the District of Columbia had an estimated 6,380 homeless people on any given day, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
GGN and the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner‘s requests for comment.
