The cleaning crews didn’t refill bathroom soap or paper towel dispensers. They left trash in office garbage cans, sometimes for days. Courtroom floors weren’t vacuumed and break areas weren’t mopped.
So Gwinnett County fired its cleaning company in April, with nine months left on their year-long contract.
Now, the county is seeking the tens of thousands of dollars they say they are owed from having to find stop-gap cleaners while the contract was rebid.
The company, KeeClean Management, blamed its subcontractors for the issues.
The company plans to sue its subcontractors to make up for its losses, a September letter to Gwinnett officials said, and indicated that the disputes between KeeClean and Gwinnett could be resolved as part of that lawsuit. No one from KeeClean returned phone calls seeking comment Thursday or Friday.
Gwinnett, in a Sept. 29 letter, said it would wait 60 days before filing a lawsuit to recoup its money in the hopes that KeeClean “will be able...
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