Officials mull penalty on overdue payments

Another ordinance deals with regulation of security guards.
By DENISE DICK
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- City council is considering enacting a penalty on accounts that are delinquent in paying for leachate treatment.
Councilwoman Susan E. Hartman, D-7th, legislation sponsor, said at a finance committee meeting Tuesday the penalty would be 1.5 percent applied to the outstanding balance.
There are two companies, Lafarge and Warren Hills, that bring leachate, or liquid runoff from the landfill, to the city's water pollution control facility for treatment.
The legislation is on tonight's council meeting agenda.
Tom Angelo, water pollution control center director, said there's not been problems with Lafarge paying on time.
The city stopped accepting leachate from the Warren Hills landfill in September because the company hadn't paid for the treatment. The company has since been placed on a payment plan.
What's owed
Angelo said Warren Hills owes about $21,000 while Regus, the company that formerly operated the landfill, owes about $35,000.
Warren Hills landfill had been cut off after two months of nonpayment, the standard time frame for service to stop for either residential or commercial customers.
Also on tonight's agenda is an ordinance to regulate security guards and security guard providers within the city.
In September, a security guard at a Market Street grocery store shot at a 17-year-old boy outside the store, police have said. The boy, who the guard told police had a knife, suffered a small wound on his head.
The boy denied having the knife. The security guard has been indicted for felonious assault.
Under the ordinance, security guards must register as such, and if a guard becomes aware of a firearm discharging in the city, he or she must immediately report it to police.
Councilman Robert L. Dean Jr., at-large, and Hartman are the ordinance sponsors.