July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
District renews lower tipping fee (3/29/05)
Volume has not increased since lowering of fee
District renews lower tipping fee (3/29/05)
By By Mike Snyder-
Although a lower fee charged by a local solid waste district hasn’t increased the amount of trash dumped in a local landfill, that lower fee will remain in place for at least another six months.
Members of the Jay County Solid Waste District Board of Directors agreed Monday to keep the district tipping fee at $1.25 per ton for at least the next six months.
The fee, which is collected and paid to the district by the operators of the Jay County Landfill, funds the operations of the waste district, which uses no tax dollars.
When the district board agreed last year to lower the fee to $1.25 from $1.50 per ton, Leon Leach, a district manager from Waste Management who is in charge of operations at the local landfill, said the lower rate should increase the amount of business at the landfill.
Leach admitted Monday that has not been the case.
“It’s been a slow winter,” Leach admitted.
When the decrease in the district tipping fee was passed, board members agreed to review the situation six months after the decrease took affect.
Before Monday’s meeting, the six board members present were given a brief tour of the new electric generating plant at the landfill. The plant, which is expected to be fired up in about two weeks, will be powered by methane gas collected from the decomposing trash in the landfill.
Board member Gerald Kirby, a member of the Jay County Council, was effusive in his praise of the project.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am about that,” Kirby said.
Wabash Valley Power, an electric generating/transmission cooperative, paid for the $3.3 million plant, which features four 1,100 horsepower generators that can produce a peak of 3.2 kilowatts of electricity — enough to power about 2,500 homes.
Bud Heare, a former employee of Franklin’s Electrical Service in Portland, will be the operator of the plant. He is an employee of Waste Management, but Wabash Valley will reimburse Waste Management’s costs.
The electricity will be sold to Jay County REMC.
Approximately four miles of new transmission lines have been constructed along county road 400 South running east from the landfill.
Heare told board members that more lines may have to be constructed to handle the amount of electricity that is generated.
Leach said that the plan is to start two generators initially. He said that three of the four generators are expected to be running at once.
Board members Milo Miller Jr., Bill Gibson, Faron Parr, Sam Hubbard, Gary Theurer and Kirby were told Monday by district executive director Kay Hayes that work on grinding and mulching ice storm debris has begin in Portland.
The work is being done by a Ansonia, Ohio company hired by the waste district.
The company is estimating that grinding the huge pile of debris along North Morton Street will take approximately 74 hours for a total cost of about $35,000.
The district expects to be reimbursed for approximately 80 percent of its costs for the grinding through a federal disaster grant.
In other business Monday, the district board:
•Learned from Hayes that district attorney Brad Burkett has not reviewed a request for quotes to provide trucking services for the district’s Saturday drop-off recycling service.
Miller, Theurer and Parr, Jay County Commissioners, said they would talk to Burkett next week. Burkett also serves as the attorney for the commissioners.
•Approved a motion that would appoint the executive director as the district’s controller, based on a recommendation from the State Board of Accounts. Hayes will now sign district checks, which have previously been signed by two board members.
•Passed a series of salary ordinance amendments that include the amount paid for health insurance to Hayes and administrative assistant Jill Cochran in 2002-05. The 2004 amendment also included an additional $426 that was overpaid to both Hayes and Cochran for health insurance.
The board could have chosen to ask Hayes and Cochran to re-pay the money, but did not do so.
•Agreed to allow Hayes to purchase a new computer and check into high-speed Internet services. The district office currently uses a dial-up Internet service provider. A maximum amount of $1,000 was established for the computer, which will replace a model that is eight to 10 years-old.
•Approved claims totaling $14,131.96, leaving a checking account balance of $141,881.61.[[In-content Ad]]
Members of the Jay County Solid Waste District Board of Directors agreed Monday to keep the district tipping fee at $1.25 per ton for at least the next six months.
The fee, which is collected and paid to the district by the operators of the Jay County Landfill, funds the operations of the waste district, which uses no tax dollars.
When the district board agreed last year to lower the fee to $1.25 from $1.50 per ton, Leon Leach, a district manager from Waste Management who is in charge of operations at the local landfill, said the lower rate should increase the amount of business at the landfill.
Leach admitted Monday that has not been the case.
“It’s been a slow winter,” Leach admitted.
When the decrease in the district tipping fee was passed, board members agreed to review the situation six months after the decrease took affect.
Before Monday’s meeting, the six board members present were given a brief tour of the new electric generating plant at the landfill. The plant, which is expected to be fired up in about two weeks, will be powered by methane gas collected from the decomposing trash in the landfill.
Board member Gerald Kirby, a member of the Jay County Council, was effusive in his praise of the project.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am about that,” Kirby said.
Wabash Valley Power, an electric generating/transmission cooperative, paid for the $3.3 million plant, which features four 1,100 horsepower generators that can produce a peak of 3.2 kilowatts of electricity — enough to power about 2,500 homes.
Bud Heare, a former employee of Franklin’s Electrical Service in Portland, will be the operator of the plant. He is an employee of Waste Management, but Wabash Valley will reimburse Waste Management’s costs.
The electricity will be sold to Jay County REMC.
Approximately four miles of new transmission lines have been constructed along county road 400 South running east from the landfill.
Heare told board members that more lines may have to be constructed to handle the amount of electricity that is generated.
Leach said that the plan is to start two generators initially. He said that three of the four generators are expected to be running at once.
Board members Milo Miller Jr., Bill Gibson, Faron Parr, Sam Hubbard, Gary Theurer and Kirby were told Monday by district executive director Kay Hayes that work on grinding and mulching ice storm debris has begin in Portland.
The work is being done by a Ansonia, Ohio company hired by the waste district.
The company is estimating that grinding the huge pile of debris along North Morton Street will take approximately 74 hours for a total cost of about $35,000.
The district expects to be reimbursed for approximately 80 percent of its costs for the grinding through a federal disaster grant.
In other business Monday, the district board:
•Learned from Hayes that district attorney Brad Burkett has not reviewed a request for quotes to provide trucking services for the district’s Saturday drop-off recycling service.
Miller, Theurer and Parr, Jay County Commissioners, said they would talk to Burkett next week. Burkett also serves as the attorney for the commissioners.
•Approved a motion that would appoint the executive director as the district’s controller, based on a recommendation from the State Board of Accounts. Hayes will now sign district checks, which have previously been signed by two board members.
•Passed a series of salary ordinance amendments that include the amount paid for health insurance to Hayes and administrative assistant Jill Cochran in 2002-05. The 2004 amendment also included an additional $426 that was overpaid to both Hayes and Cochran for health insurance.
The board could have chosen to ask Hayes and Cochran to re-pay the money, but did not do so.
•Agreed to allow Hayes to purchase a new computer and check into high-speed Internet services. The district office currently uses a dial-up Internet service provider. A maximum amount of $1,000 was established for the computer, which will replace a model that is eight to 10 years-old.
•Approved claims totaling $14,131.96, leaving a checking account balance of $141,881.61.[[In-content Ad]]
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