July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Waste district to sponsor art contest (03/28/06)
Jay County Solid Waste District
By By MARY ANN LEWIS-
Save recyclables and turn them into art pieces.
The Jay County Solid Waste District board Monday afternoon heard district director Kay Hayes explain plans for a recycled arts contest.
The contest would require art pieces made from something reclaimed, she said.
“It has to be recycled,” she explained to the board.
Hayes added that the contest would include three age divisions, grade six and younger, grades seven through 12, and a category for adults.
Board members then agreed to allow Hayes to provide $100 in prize money in each category to be divided among place winners.
“It might pull in more people if you have higher prizes,” said board member, Bill Gibson, as he voted in favor of the request.
Additionally Monday afternoon, the board learned that since the district agreed to lower the landfill’s tipping fee, the district income has also decreased.
The district agreed to landfill manager, Leon Leach’s request in April, 2005, to lower the tipping fee to $1.25 from $1.50 in order to make the landfill more competitive when bidding for projects.
But that decrease has not proven as beneficial as Leach had planned, and the amount of trash being dumped has remained nearly steady.
That has resulted in the district receiving less money per month.
The landfill received 12,285.68 tons of solid waste in February, with 556 of those tons exempt from the district fee.
The district had claims totaling $17, 642.04 and net income for the January through March period was $2.97, leaving the district a bank balance of $106,102.55
Additionally, the board heard Hayes say that the county’s annual Tox-away Day is tentatively set for Oct. 28, at the Jay County Fairgrounds.
The board also tabled a decision on renting a paper shredder, a service the board considered at its February meeting.[[In-content Ad]]
The Jay County Solid Waste District board Monday afternoon heard district director Kay Hayes explain plans for a recycled arts contest.
The contest would require art pieces made from something reclaimed, she said.
“It has to be recycled,” she explained to the board.
Hayes added that the contest would include three age divisions, grade six and younger, grades seven through 12, and a category for adults.
Board members then agreed to allow Hayes to provide $100 in prize money in each category to be divided among place winners.
“It might pull in more people if you have higher prizes,” said board member, Bill Gibson, as he voted in favor of the request.
Additionally Monday afternoon, the board learned that since the district agreed to lower the landfill’s tipping fee, the district income has also decreased.
The district agreed to landfill manager, Leon Leach’s request in April, 2005, to lower the tipping fee to $1.25 from $1.50 in order to make the landfill more competitive when bidding for projects.
But that decrease has not proven as beneficial as Leach had planned, and the amount of trash being dumped has remained nearly steady.
That has resulted in the district receiving less money per month.
The landfill received 12,285.68 tons of solid waste in February, with 556 of those tons exempt from the district fee.
The district had claims totaling $17, 642.04 and net income for the January through March period was $2.97, leaving the district a bank balance of $106,102.55
Additionally, the board heard Hayes say that the county’s annual Tox-away Day is tentatively set for Oct. 28, at the Jay County Fairgrounds.
The board also tabled a decision on renting a paper shredder, a service the board considered at its February meeting.[[In-content Ad]]
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