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Host pact on hold in Springfield
NEW SPRINGFIELD
Springfield Township Trustees have learned that there likely will be no host agreement with Waste Management for the “foreseeable future.”
Mahoning County Green Team Director Jim Petuch informed trustees by letter that Jerry Ross of Waste Management landfill told Petuch that the current economic situation “has severely affected the landfill’s profitability” and that as a result, the company has “no incentive” to enter such an agreement.
The township has been seeking such an agreement with the landfill for years. In a host agreement, the landfill would provide the township with something to make up for inconvenience it causes the community. Currently it only provides the state-mandated 25 cents per ton of waste dumped to the township.
Trustee Robert Orr said after the meeting that Springfield Township is the only one of three landfill locations in the county that does not have a host agreement.
In other business at their meeting Wednesday, township trustees approved up to $15,000 in repairs to the township’s 1999 mower-tractor and up to $750 to install a ditch and culvert pipe at Daryl Hoffman’s property in Petersburg where sewer line construction has resulted in severe flooding. They also named Pastor Larry Klinker of Zion Lutheran Church as Fire Department chaplain and hired Bob Clayton for the fire department and EMS. They accepted the resignation of Mike Matter from the fire department.