July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
District tipping fee trimmed (7/20/04)
Per-ton amount dropping to $1.25
A request to cut the per-ton amount it receives for trash dumped in a local landfill has been approved by the Jay County Solid Waste District.
Members of the district board, who were asked several months ago by Jay County Landfill operator Waste Management to consider decreasing the district tipping fee, trimmed that fee to $1.25 per ton — down 25 cents from the current amount.
The change, which will be effective Oct. 1, will be for a six-month trial period.
Leon Leach, who supervises operations at the local landfill, has said previously he believes the lower tipping fee will mean he can be more competitive when bidding for “event” trash disposal jobs. More contracts could mean a higher volume that could offset the reduction in tipping fee for the district.
The vote to reduce the fee could complicate the district’s attempt to pass its 2005 budget, executive director Kay Hayes said Monday. The proposed 2005 budget is approximately $250,000, and the cut in the district tipping fee would reduce income to less than the proposed budget if volume at the landfill doesn’t increase sufficiently.
Hayes said she will have to notify officials with the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance about the change in the tipping fee and the budget could be rejected. If so, the district would have to make additional appropriations to fund operations in 2005.
Since the district’s inception in June of 2002, the monthly average income through the district tipping fees has been about $20,900, or $250,000 per year.
The district has a checking account balance of approximately $142,000.
Also Monday, the district board voted to once again give bonuses to the groups that staff the district’s Saturday drop-off recycling locations.
The groups will be paid one-half cent for each pound collected in the past year, and one cent for each pound collected that exceeded the previous year’s total.
Bloomfield Elementary School PTO, which has a permanent recycling trailer on-site in addition to a staffed trailer one Saturday per month, collected a total of 187,000 pounds of recyclables between May of 2003 and April of this year. Under the formula approved by the board Monday, the group will receive a bonus of approximately $1,100.
The second-largest bonus will go to the Madison Go-Getters 4-H Club, which collected 123,160 pounds and which had the largest increase from the previous year’s figure. The club will receive a bonus of almost $800.
Also Monday, board members Gerald Kirby, Bill Gibson, Gary Theurer, Milo Miller Jr. and Mike Leonhard agreed to pay a flat $250 bonus to the EarthWatch Club at Jay County High School, which coordinates recycling efforts at JCHS.
A similar bonus may be paid to West Jay and East Jay Middle Schools and General Shanks Elementary School once the board determines what that bonus could be used for by the schools.
Dan Orr, a JCHS teacher and the sponsor of the EarthWatch Club, said Monday the school corporation needs to do a better job of educating students about recycling. He said he was hopeful the district could help provide an incentive for students to “do the right thing.”
Leonhard said he wasn’t against paying bonuses to school groups, but didn’t want the money to be used for general fund expenses.
“I pay enough to the (school’s) general fund,” said Leonhard.
“Until I see where it’s going, I’m uneasy, too,” Theurer added. Both Leonhard and Theurer are Jay County Commissioners.
In other business Monday, district board members:
•Approved repayment of $19,939 to Waste Management for overpayment of district tipping fees since the inception of the district. An audit by Waste Management completed several months ago first showed that more than $27,000 in overpayments were made. Further checking reduced the amount of the overpayment to the $19,939 figure.
Board members are expected to approve an additional appropriation next month for the amount of the repayment.
“Is there safeguards in place where this won’t happen again?” Kirby asked Leach.
“It’s handled,” Leach replied.
•Received an update from Hayes on the completion of a pole building at district headquarters. The building will serve as storage and as the district’s re-use center.
Hayes was given permission by the board to order guttering and gutter guard for the pole building and gutter guard for the former home that serves as district headquarters.
•Approved paying $20 to sponsor a trophy for the Jay County Fair for the Boots & Spurs 4-H Horse and Pony Club.
•Learned the district received $25,690 in tipping fee income in June, based on 17,300 tons of trash that were subject to the fee.[[In-content Ad]]
Members of the district board, who were asked several months ago by Jay County Landfill operator Waste Management to consider decreasing the district tipping fee, trimmed that fee to $1.25 per ton — down 25 cents from the current amount.
The change, which will be effective Oct. 1, will be for a six-month trial period.
Leon Leach, who supervises operations at the local landfill, has said previously he believes the lower tipping fee will mean he can be more competitive when bidding for “event” trash disposal jobs. More contracts could mean a higher volume that could offset the reduction in tipping fee for the district.
The vote to reduce the fee could complicate the district’s attempt to pass its 2005 budget, executive director Kay Hayes said Monday. The proposed 2005 budget is approximately $250,000, and the cut in the district tipping fee would reduce income to less than the proposed budget if volume at the landfill doesn’t increase sufficiently.
Hayes said she will have to notify officials with the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance about the change in the tipping fee and the budget could be rejected. If so, the district would have to make additional appropriations to fund operations in 2005.
Since the district’s inception in June of 2002, the monthly average income through the district tipping fees has been about $20,900, or $250,000 per year.
The district has a checking account balance of approximately $142,000.
Also Monday, the district board voted to once again give bonuses to the groups that staff the district’s Saturday drop-off recycling locations.
The groups will be paid one-half cent for each pound collected in the past year, and one cent for each pound collected that exceeded the previous year’s total.
Bloomfield Elementary School PTO, which has a permanent recycling trailer on-site in addition to a staffed trailer one Saturday per month, collected a total of 187,000 pounds of recyclables between May of 2003 and April of this year. Under the formula approved by the board Monday, the group will receive a bonus of approximately $1,100.
The second-largest bonus will go to the Madison Go-Getters 4-H Club, which collected 123,160 pounds and which had the largest increase from the previous year’s figure. The club will receive a bonus of almost $800.
Also Monday, board members Gerald Kirby, Bill Gibson, Gary Theurer, Milo Miller Jr. and Mike Leonhard agreed to pay a flat $250 bonus to the EarthWatch Club at Jay County High School, which coordinates recycling efforts at JCHS.
A similar bonus may be paid to West Jay and East Jay Middle Schools and General Shanks Elementary School once the board determines what that bonus could be used for by the schools.
Dan Orr, a JCHS teacher and the sponsor of the EarthWatch Club, said Monday the school corporation needs to do a better job of educating students about recycling. He said he was hopeful the district could help provide an incentive for students to “do the right thing.”
Leonhard said he wasn’t against paying bonuses to school groups, but didn’t want the money to be used for general fund expenses.
“I pay enough to the (school’s) general fund,” said Leonhard.
“Until I see where it’s going, I’m uneasy, too,” Theurer added. Both Leonhard and Theurer are Jay County Commissioners.
In other business Monday, district board members:
•Approved repayment of $19,939 to Waste Management for overpayment of district tipping fees since the inception of the district. An audit by Waste Management completed several months ago first showed that more than $27,000 in overpayments were made. Further checking reduced the amount of the overpayment to the $19,939 figure.
Board members are expected to approve an additional appropriation next month for the amount of the repayment.
“Is there safeguards in place where this won’t happen again?” Kirby asked Leach.
“It’s handled,” Leach replied.
•Received an update from Hayes on the completion of a pole building at district headquarters. The building will serve as storage and as the district’s re-use center.
Hayes was given permission by the board to order guttering and gutter guard for the pole building and gutter guard for the former home that serves as district headquarters.
•Approved paying $20 to sponsor a trophy for the Jay County Fair for the Boots & Spurs 4-H Horse and Pony Club.
•Learned the district received $25,690 in tipping fee income in June, based on 17,300 tons of trash that were subject to the fee.[[In-content Ad]]
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