
{"id":18584,"date":"2011-06-02T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=18584"},"modified":"2011-06-02T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:00:42","slug":"county-leaders-increase-landfill-tipping-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/06\/02\/county-leaders-increase-landfill-tipping-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"County leaders increase landfill tipping fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Joshua Lucas<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\nAgainst the objections of town leaders, the Orange County Board of Commissioners moved forward May 26 with a plan to charge more to dump trash at the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s landfill on Eubanks Road.<br \/>\nTown leaders had said that the plan, which aims to use the increased fees to pay for community improvement projects in the neighborhoods around the landfill, would put undue stress on already tight budgets this year. Carrboro leaders estimated the additional $5 per ton fee would cost the town about $20,000 this year.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disappointed that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re moving forward,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concern that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shared about how we can work together to mitigate the issues affecting the Rogers Road neighborhood.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disappointed with is that the increase in the fee occurred 20 days before we had to approve a budget.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nCommissioners said they felt they had to honor their commitment to the Rogers Road neighborhood.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I feel like reducing it now would be backpedaling,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Commissioner Earl McKee said.<br \/>\nCommissioners Barry Jacobs and Alice Gordon said they were eager to find a compromise. Carrboro and Chapel Hill leaders had proposed a phased increase in the tipping fees, starting at $2 this year, which Jacobs said he preferred.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It would just be a more diplomatic and friendly way to do this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jacobs said.<br \/>\nCounty waste officials say 46 percent of the waste deposited at the landfill comes from Chapel Hill and Carrboro.<br \/>\nIn the end, a visibly frustrated Commissioner Valerie Foushee argued that the board was once again threatening to retreat on commitments it had made to the Rogers Road neighborhood \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this time, literally, at the eleventh hour, since the discussion was being held at the end of a long evening budget work session.<br \/>\nThe Eubanks Road landfill was opened by the town of Chapel Hill in 1972, with ownership taken by the county in 2000. When it opened, then-Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee told neighbors the landfill could be closed within a decade. Residents of the Rogers Road neighborhood near the landfill have said that the landfill is responsible for illegal dumping, unpleasant odors and underdevelopment in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the objections of town leaders, the Orange County Board of Commissioners moved forward May 26 with a plan to charge more to dump trash at the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s landfill on Eubanks Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18585,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18584\/revisions\/18585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}