Solid waste management among items discussed in Humboldt Board of Aldermen meeting

HUMBOLDT, Tenn. — The Humboldt Board of Aldermen move through with decisions for their budget after a public hearing held at the beginning of the initial meeting.

During Humboldt’s monthly board meeting Monday, Mayor Marvin Sikes and the board of alderman approved new business including solid waste management throughout the community.

The issue was discussed in a public hearing before the meeting began for residents to express any issues or concerns.

Board members made a motion to move forward with the 2nd reading on an ordinance for a 30 dollar trash tax with {rock} Rakk Solid Waste, L.L.C
a previous ordinance failed to pass in July that would have increased garbage fees in the city to $40.

“We finally reached an agreement for a trash billing. It turned out real good because we had to switch over to a new company, so now with the company we ended up coming to an agreement that we do have to have some money put back into our funding. That worked really well,” said Leon McNeal, Humboldt alderman.

According to McNeal this is the same trash establishment that the city had issues with earlier this year concerning landfill tipping at the time of the Strawberry Festival.

Despite reports we received showing an affidavit in the case of Rakk Solid suing the city for unresolved matters in September, city leaders believe their efforts have made a way for a mutual working agreement between the waste company and the city.

“We reached an agreement to resolve a lot of this with our lawyer,” said McNeal.

To continue further development in humboldt McNeal says grant funding will be essential..

“In the near future, we are going to start dealing with a lot more grants because the government has made them available for us for projects, so we want to take advantage of those grants as much as possible,” said McNeal.

McNeal also talked about other plans going forward to improve the quality of life for residents.

Those include, finishing the library, improving west side drainage management and completing the dog pound by next year.

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