Monmouth City Council has passed a resolution authorizing the sale of the transfer station to Lake Shore Recycling as well as eight acres of land. Mayor Rod Davies says the company plans to expand creating new jobs in the Monmouth community:
“They are talking about adding 25 to 30 new jobs. The other key piece is that it costs the citizens of Monmouth, the tax payers, between our post closure costs and the operation of the transfer station; we were sometimes spending, depending on what breaks and what doesn’t break, upwards of $200,000 a year to maintain that facility and the old landfill site. With this sale, those operating costs are no longer the responsibility of the city. We will also be receiving a through-put charge of $1.25 per ton, which we are anticipating will cover our post closure costs for the landfill. Then we will also be receiving $2.25 million for the land and the compactor and the building that it resides in.”
Yard waste and brush collection will not be affected by the sale and will remain under the City’s control as well as the landfill.
