July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Groups reap recycling bonuses (5/24/05)
District board rewards recycling
By By Mike Snyder-
Doing the right thing will pay off in more ways than one for several local groups involved with the local recycling effort.
More than $4,000 in bonuses — including $1,227 to a group that collected nearly 30 percent of the total county-wide — were agreed to Monday by board members of the Jay County Solid Waste District.
The Bloomfield Elementary PTO, which actively solicits recycled goods, collected 206,480 pounds of recyclable items in 2004-05 — an increase of 19,460 pounds from the previous year.
Members of the waste district board agreed to pay groups half a cent per pound of the amount collected, plus an additional one cent for each pound increase from the previous year.
Other leading recycling groups include the Madison Go-Getters 4-H Club, $483.48, 123,160 pounds; and Dunkirk Optimist Club, $391.20, 78,240 pounds.
Countywide, a total of 762,964 pounds of recyclable items were collected in the second half of 2004 and the first half of this year, a decrease of about 33,000 pounds over the prior year.
Board members Gerald Kirby, Bill Gibson, Gary Theurer, Milo Miller Jr., Faron Parr and Bruce Hosier approved payment of a total of $4,430.02 in bonuses to more than 30 county groups.
The groups are also paid $150 each time they staff district-operated Saturday drop-off recycling locations.
The bonuses “are a nice incentive for these organizations,” Hosier said Monday afternoon.
Also approved Monday were bonuses of $250 for each of the six county schools that participate in school recycling programs. Schools receiving the $250 amount will be Pennville, Judge Haynes and General Shanks Elementary schools, West Jay and East Jay Middle schools and Jay County High School.
Bonus checks will be handed out by district personnel during the Jay County Fair in July.
Also Monday, the board agreed to hire George Lloyd Construction of Portland to replace siding, the front door and a window at district headquarters.
Lloyd’s quote of $3,743 for the work was less than half of the quote submitted by M&E Construction of rural Portland ($8,070).
In other business Monday, members of the district board:
•Heard district director Kay Hayes report that the district’s annual household hazardous waste collection day will be held in the fall at the Jay County Fairgrounds. The program was held in a parking lot at Jay County School in 2004, but Hayes said the district will not be able to use the site again at the request of the school corporation.
•Approved a total of $13,221.60 in claims for the period of April 24 to May 23, leaving the district with a checking account balance of $134,847.39.
•Learned that the district’s income for April was $18,167, based on 14,680 tons of trash that were dumped in the Jay County Landfill. The district is paid $1.25 for each ton of trash accepted by the local landfill.
•Asked Hayes to contact an Ohio firm to grind tree limbs and other wood debris taken to a site near the county highway garage in the aftermath of January’s ice storm. The firm, T.T.I. Custom Wood Grinding and Recycling of Ansonia, spent nearly a week grinding up debris at a site off of North Morton Street in Portland. The city plans to haul the limbs that have been stored at the Morton Street location to the county side, on county road 100 East between county roads 100 and 200 North.
•Learned from Hayes that a group of JCHS students had done landscaping work at district headquarters, including plants and mulch.
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More than $4,000 in bonuses — including $1,227 to a group that collected nearly 30 percent of the total county-wide — were agreed to Monday by board members of the Jay County Solid Waste District.
The Bloomfield Elementary PTO, which actively solicits recycled goods, collected 206,480 pounds of recyclable items in 2004-05 — an increase of 19,460 pounds from the previous year.
Members of the waste district board agreed to pay groups half a cent per pound of the amount collected, plus an additional one cent for each pound increase from the previous year.
Other leading recycling groups include the Madison Go-Getters 4-H Club, $483.48, 123,160 pounds; and Dunkirk Optimist Club, $391.20, 78,240 pounds.
Countywide, a total of 762,964 pounds of recyclable items were collected in the second half of 2004 and the first half of this year, a decrease of about 33,000 pounds over the prior year.
Board members Gerald Kirby, Bill Gibson, Gary Theurer, Milo Miller Jr., Faron Parr and Bruce Hosier approved payment of a total of $4,430.02 in bonuses to more than 30 county groups.
The groups are also paid $150 each time they staff district-operated Saturday drop-off recycling locations.
The bonuses “are a nice incentive for these organizations,” Hosier said Monday afternoon.
Also approved Monday were bonuses of $250 for each of the six county schools that participate in school recycling programs. Schools receiving the $250 amount will be Pennville, Judge Haynes and General Shanks Elementary schools, West Jay and East Jay Middle schools and Jay County High School.
Bonus checks will be handed out by district personnel during the Jay County Fair in July.
Also Monday, the board agreed to hire George Lloyd Construction of Portland to replace siding, the front door and a window at district headquarters.
Lloyd’s quote of $3,743 for the work was less than half of the quote submitted by M&E Construction of rural Portland ($8,070).
In other business Monday, members of the district board:
•Heard district director Kay Hayes report that the district’s annual household hazardous waste collection day will be held in the fall at the Jay County Fairgrounds. The program was held in a parking lot at Jay County School in 2004, but Hayes said the district will not be able to use the site again at the request of the school corporation.
•Approved a total of $13,221.60 in claims for the period of April 24 to May 23, leaving the district with a checking account balance of $134,847.39.
•Learned that the district’s income for April was $18,167, based on 14,680 tons of trash that were dumped in the Jay County Landfill. The district is paid $1.25 for each ton of trash accepted by the local landfill.
•Asked Hayes to contact an Ohio firm to grind tree limbs and other wood debris taken to a site near the county highway garage in the aftermath of January’s ice storm. The firm, T.T.I. Custom Wood Grinding and Recycling of Ansonia, spent nearly a week grinding up debris at a site off of North Morton Street in Portland. The city plans to haul the limbs that have been stored at the Morton Street location to the county side, on county road 100 East between county roads 100 and 200 North.
•Learned from Hayes that a group of JCHS students had done landscaping work at district headquarters, including plants and mulch.
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