January 24, 2017 at 6:29 p.m.
District to try new hours
District to try new hours
Jay County Solid Waste Management District will try out some new office hours and will be going back to its old meeting schedule.
The district board decided at its meeting Monday to offer late afternoon/evening office hours.
Responding to concerns that it may be difficult for some to utilize the solid waste management district services during its regular hours — 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays — the board decided to add hours from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays. The change will begin in March on a trial basis.
The board will consider later in the year whether to make the new hours permanent or have different schedules in the summer and winter.
Board members Jeanne Houchins, Doug Inman, Chuck Huffman, Mike Leonhard, Randy Geesaman, Bill Gibson and Tom Johnson also agreed to move their meetings back to the traditional 3:30 p.m. start time. Meetings had been at 3 p.m. for the last several months, but those involved said they felt the old time worked better.
The board also re-elected Houchins as its president and Inman as vice president, and named Geesaman to join them on the personnel committee. That group plans to have its 90-day review of new district coordinator Samantha Rhodehamel, who took the job in early October, ready for February’s board meeting.
In other business, the board:
•Learned the district brought in $16,733 in tipping fees of 9,658.48 tons dumped at Jay County Landfill thus far in January. After paying claims of $44,777.30, the district has a balance of $455,704.
•Approved 1-cent per ton bonuses for organizations that work at Saturday recycling trailers. Total recycling at the trailers was down 34,520 tons, about 5 percent, in 2016 as compared to 2015.
•Agreed to reissue lost checks distributed within the last two years.
•Re-approved Carter Leonhard, Paula Confer, Justin Buster, Phil Ford and Cindy Denney to the district’s citizens’ advisory committee.
•Heard a request from Leonhard that a list of alternative recycling opportunities, for items such as bottle caps, be kept on the district’s website.
The district board decided at its meeting Monday to offer late afternoon/evening office hours.
Responding to concerns that it may be difficult for some to utilize the solid waste management district services during its regular hours — 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays — the board decided to add hours from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays. The change will begin in March on a trial basis.
The board will consider later in the year whether to make the new hours permanent or have different schedules in the summer and winter.
Board members Jeanne Houchins, Doug Inman, Chuck Huffman, Mike Leonhard, Randy Geesaman, Bill Gibson and Tom Johnson also agreed to move their meetings back to the traditional 3:30 p.m. start time. Meetings had been at 3 p.m. for the last several months, but those involved said they felt the old time worked better.
The board also re-elected Houchins as its president and Inman as vice president, and named Geesaman to join them on the personnel committee. That group plans to have its 90-day review of new district coordinator Samantha Rhodehamel, who took the job in early October, ready for February’s board meeting.
In other business, the board:
•Learned the district brought in $16,733 in tipping fees of 9,658.48 tons dumped at Jay County Landfill thus far in January. After paying claims of $44,777.30, the district has a balance of $455,704.
•Approved 1-cent per ton bonuses for organizations that work at Saturday recycling trailers. Total recycling at the trailers was down 34,520 tons, about 5 percent, in 2016 as compared to 2015.
•Agreed to reissue lost checks distributed within the last two years.
•Re-approved Carter Leonhard, Paula Confer, Justin Buster, Phil Ford and Cindy Denney to the district’s citizens’ advisory committee.
•Heard a request from Leonhard that a list of alternative recycling opportunities, for items such as bottle caps, be kept on the district’s website.
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