Why Are We Short $3,000 Again This Year?

According to DPW records, there are 7 private trash haulers competing for business in the City of Hudson.  How does DPW know this?  Because if a garbage company wants to do business in Hudson, it must be issued a DPW Trash Haulers Permit to do so.  Any company regularly servicing dumpsters in the alleys, small plastic trash and recycling containers in the alleys and along the curbs, or picking up food waste to be composted, is required to pay for a permit every year.  The fee for a Trash Haulers Permit is $1,000.  Each truck doing garbage business in Hudson is supposed to have the permit displayed on its windshield.

The 2023 list of 7 licensed trash haulers,
same as last year

The only problem is that there are at least 3 unpermitted trash haulers who have been doing business in Hudson for years that DPW Superintendent Robert Perry should be well aware of but doesn't seem to care about.  All he would have to do is get out of his city-issued vehicle and walk a few blocks of an alley to see the trash containers owned by the following local trash haulers:  Community Cleanup, Hometown Hauler, and Bootstrap Composting.  

Is Mr. Perry ignoring our Code and his own department's rules regarding refuse haulers, and making exceptions for certain haulers?  Or is he just not paying attention?  Does he care?  Does he care that the city is out $3,000 every year these 3 waste haulers are not required to pay for a haulers permit?  Is issuing the permits to all haulers in Hudson not important to Mr. Perry?