Garbage Collection

David Hatfield, sales manager of M&M Sanitation, presented a proposal to the Perryville City Council on Thursday night to move toward automated garbage collection in the city. Hatfield said the new operation would consist of one person collecting trash on a fully-automated vehicle. Garbage would be placed in containers, which would be provided by the company to residents, that could easily be picked up by the truck. The containers would have to be rented by the city for $2 or less per container.

PERRYVILLE - Perryville's city council gave first reading Thursday to an ordinance that would raise the insurance premium tax from 5 to 10 percent. The increase would offset the loss of revenue caused by the elimination of garbage collection bills, said Mayor Bruce Richardson. The council will meet in special session at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 to give the measure second reading, and if passed, the increase would go into effect July 1. Health insurance premiums are exempt from the tax, which comes from the sale of insurance policies in the City of Perryville.

PERRYVILLE - When the City of Perryville sold its water service to Danville, it lost its primary weapon to enforce garbage collection payments. "When we handled the water bills, we used that as a means of collecting payment for garbage bills," said Mayor Bruce Richardson. "If someone didn't pay their garbage bill, we had the option of turning their water off. Now, we no longer have that option. " Garbage still is collected in Perryville, however, so Richardson and the county council members have come up with a way to make the garbage fees a moot point.

After raising garbage fees five months ago, Danville City Commissioners were reluctant to do so again so soon, even if it will cost the city $17,000. Commissioners rejected a proposal Monday by City Manager Paul Stansbury to add another 28 cents to the garbage rate, bumping it from $7.27 to $7.55 per month. In July, the rate went from $6 to $7.27. Stansbury said the city's contract for garbage collection with M&M Sanitation calls for the rates the company charges the city to be adjusted each November.

Danville doesn't have money to build. It is quickly reaching its minimum fund balance, $2 million, and there are no reliable, steady sources of income. These are the problems City Manager Darrell Blenniss presented to commissioners Tuesday at a budget workshop. Here are his suggestions for steady income: Have residents pay for their garbage collection that would free up $560,000 a year, the price of the collection contract now paid out of the general fund. Create a stormwater utility.

By ANN R. HARNEY ann4@searnet.com HARRODSBURG - A 27-year relationship between the city of Harrodsburg and H&B Sanitation ended Tuesday night, and the city's action could be a fatal body blow to the garbage collection company. H&B, which stands for Harrodsburg and Burgin, did not submit a bid to the city for the 10-year contract. The City Commission accepted a bid from Republic Services of Kentucky, which does business as M&M Sanitation. Eddie Burton, whose family owns and operates H&B, said the city contract is about 80 percent of H&B's business.

HARRODSBURG ? A 27-year relationship between the city of Harrodsburg and H&B Sanitation ended Tuesday night, and the city?s action could be a fatal body blow to the garbage collection company. H&B, which stands for Harrodsburg and Burgin, did not submit a bid to the city for the 10-year contract. The City Commission accepted a bid from Republic Services of Kentucky, which does business as M&M Sanitation. Eddie Burton, whose family owns and operates H&B, said the city contract is about 80 percent of H&B?

PERRYVILLE - Police coverage in Perryville and Boyle County was a focal point of discussion at Thursday's Perryville City Council meeting. During a recent interview with The Advocate-Messenger, Boyle Sheriff Marty Elliott said his department was dangerously understaffed and had the same number of road deputies as in 1985. “Sheriff Elliott's recent comments in the newspaper about manpower in the county have me a little bit concerned,” said Perryville Councilman Harold Jones.

Dear Editor, I feel that it is vital that everyone go to the polls this November and vote for themselves. Let me elaborate on that statement. Starting from Washington politics down to Danville politics we are facing exorbitant waste in every level of our government. Everyone feels the squeeze of the prices we are paying - gasoline, food, new taxes, and with winter coming, heating our homes. We must vote people into office who want to put a stop to this excessive spending and help us keep money in our pockets and not the government's.

PERRYVILLE - Police coverage in Perryville and Boyle County was a focal point of discussion at Thursday's Perryville City Council meeting. During a recent interview with The Advocate-Messenger, Boyle Sheriff Marty Elliott said his department was dangerously understaffed and had the same number of road deputies as in 1985. “Sheriff Elliott's recent comments in the newspaper about manpower in the county have me a little bit concerned,” said Perryville Councilman Harold Jones.

Today is the third pickup for the single-stream curbside pilot recycling program in Holiday Hills, and preliminary numbers for the first two pickups suggest a correlation between the amount of recyclables and the amount of trash people set out. At a Winchester Municipal Utilities Commission meeting Thursday night, WMU General Manager Mike Flynn said at its Aug. 5 recycling pickup, WMU collected 2.26 tons of recyclables, and 1.47 tons at its Aug. 12...

Picking up trash in Lancaster will soon be someone else's job. The Lancaster City Council voted 3-1 Monday to franchise out garbage pick-ups to a commercial company, ending years of debate on the issue. The most recent round of arguments concerning garbage pick-up began when the City Council's Garbage Committee announced rates would need to be increased in order to make the garbage fund sustainable. The Garbage Committee put forth two options: face continual rate increases or farm the job out to a commercial company at a fixed price.

Dear Editor, Mayor Hugh Coomer and Commissioner Gail Louis have been vilified, insulted, maligned and disparaged by their fellow city commissioners and the media. Why? Because they were doing what they were elected to do. We did not elect them to be bobble-head dolls, nodding in agreement with everything commissioners Janet Hamner and Terry Crowley want. We elected them to be fiscally responsible and to be our voice in city affairs. Now they are giving the same treatment to Bob Griffin.

Dear Editor, I feel that it is vital that everyone go to the polls this November and vote for themselves. Let me elaborate on that statement. Starting from Washington politics down to Danville politics we are facing exorbitant waste in every level of our government. Everyone feels the squeeze of the prices we are paying - gasoline, food, new taxes, and with winter coming, heating our homes. We must vote people into office who want to put a stop to this excessive spending and help us keep money in our pockets and not the government's.

David Hatfield, sales manager of M&M Sanitation, presented a proposal to the Perryville City Council on Thursday night to move toward automated garbage collection in the city. Hatfield said the new operation would consist of one person collecting trash on a fully-automated vehicle. Garbage would be placed in containers, which would be provided by the company to residents, that could easily be picked up by the truck. The containers would have to be rented by the city for $2 or less per container.

After raising garbage fees five months ago, Danville City Commissioners were reluctant to do so again so soon, even if it will cost the city $17,000. Commissioners rejected a proposal Monday by City Manager Paul Stansbury to add another 28 cents to the garbage rate, bumping it from $7.27 to $7.55 per month. In July, the rate went from $6 to $7.27. Stansbury said the city's contract for garbage collection with M&M Sanitation calls for the rates the company charges the city to be adjusted each November.

QUANTICO, Va. - Here at "the crossroads of the Marine Corps," some officers are uneasily pondering a paradox: No service was better prepared than the Marines for the challenges of post-invasion Iraq, yet no service has found its mission there more unsettling to its sense of itself. When asked in 1997 to describe the kind of conflict for which Marines were training, Gen. Charles Krulak, then the Corps' commandant, replied with one word: "Chechnya. " He meant ethnic and sectarian conflict in an urban context.

Casey recycling center to cease garbage collection LIBERTY - Collection of garbage at Casey County Recycling Center will cease until the county purchases scales to weigh garbage. The court decided to close the collection center to all garbage until it purchases scales. It will remain open for white goods (appliances) and recycling materials like cans, bottles, plastic jugs, newspapers and magazines. County Judge-Executive Ronald Wright told Fiscal Court on Monday that Tri-K Landfill in Lincoln County has changed its method of measuring trash.

For the moment, Danville city commissioners want to charge $6 for garbage collection with no curbside recycling and increase the payroll tax from 1 percent to 1.2 percent. Immediately after voting for the new taxes, Commissioner Terry Crowley said he wants to be clear that it's not over yet. The tax rates and plan could change anytime before the second reading of the budget ordinance, which must occur before the budget year begins on July 1. There has yet to be a first reading.