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Show W1C OtCs $1 For BARD Use Woods Cross residents now pay a monthly $1 fee for contracted con-tracted garbage collection service, ser-vice, in addition to the privilege pri-vilege of using the BARD for the dumping of larger refuse items. BIT, AFTER years of coU lecting thousands of tons of garbage, the BARD site is beginning be-ginning to fill up. 'We don't have a year's ground left out there," Mayor Urry said. "There's no chance on earth." he added, that Woods Cross will be able to use nearby near-by "wetlands" ground for future fu-ture dumpsites. IN ADDITION, he said "we are desperately in need of some management." He criticized criti-cized the lack of planning, saying. "We haven't had that for years down there and we are beginning to see the results." re-sults." "I would like to see a standard stan-dard flat fee for the whole year." The council agreed. By MARK D. MICKLLifcM WOODS CROSS - Woods Cross officials have adopted a new policy regarding garbage disposal at the Bay Area Refuse Re-fuse District. BY UNANIMOUS vote Tuesday night, the city council approved a resolution requiring requir-ing residents to pay a flat entrance entr-ance fee of $1 to use the landfill. land-fill. Colored BARD cards, held currently by most local landowners, land-owners, will no longer be the only valid admittance ticket into the dumpsite, but should be retained, say councilmem-bers, councilmem-bers, for identification purposes. pur-poses. IN ADDITION to the entrance entr-ance fee, the council voted in favor of establishing a spring and fall cleanup session. According to the plan. Woods Cross (.BARD) cardholders will be admitted to the dump-site dump-site free of charge for one month in the spring and one month in the fall but only if they produce sufficient BARD identification at the gate. The decision to change procedures pro-cedures at the landfill is a part of a countywide plan to reorganize reorga-nize the management of the BARD, stabilize the facility's financial picture, and to prepare pre-pare for future land acquisition. acquisi-tion. DESPITE a recent hike of 50 cents in municipal BARD charges, Mayor Urry told councilmembers "we're still in trouble with the BARD financially." He said the BARD board of directors feel as though all participating par-ticipating cities should adopt an entrance fee policy, much like the system used in Salt Lake County landfills. IN SALT Lake City, when a person transports garbage in his own truck, the mayor said the city saves money. But in Woods Cross, he said, the city loses out all around. "We're not on a sound financial basis and are facing serious consequences if we don't turn this thing around." Urry explained. HE SAID the landfill's operating oper-ating procedures are in danger of being shut down by the Environmental En-vironmental Protection Agency. |