TUSTIN

Waste Management of Orange County is requesting the Orange County Superior Court require the city to accept a referendum petition issued by frustrated residents May 30. A hearing will take place in Superior Court at 11 a.m. today.

Community members and some of the trash-hauling company’s employees gathered more than 4,500 signatures from residents urging the City Council to retain Waste Management as the city’s trash hauler and rescind its May 1 decision to hire Federal Disposal Service.

The city announced last week the petition was rejected because it did not have the name or title of the contract ordinance approved by the City Council, it did not indicate some of the essential terms of the contract between the city and Federal Disposal such as the contract amount, and the approved contract was not attached to the petition for residents to view.