Compromise reached on funding Mahoning County landfill inspections

YOUNGSTOWN — By a 5-2 vote this morning, the Mahoning County Solid Waste Policy Committee approved a compromise under which the county recycling division will provide slightly less funding for the county health department’s landfill inspection and monitoring program.

The program, which covers the county’s two active and five closed landfills, had been funded at $400,000 a year, but that will drop to $390,000 annually in 2013 and 2014 and to $388,000 annually from 2015 to 2027.

Township officials and the health department had opposed any cuts to landfill inspection and monitoring, but recycling officials noted that their budget is constrained by reductions in landfill dumping-fee revenue due to reduced landfill use as recycling increases.

The committee is expected to vote on the full 15-year solid waste plan at its next meeting at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 5 in the Oakhill Renaissance Place auditorium.

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