KINGSTON – The Ulster County Resource
Recovery Agency, which had planned on considering a resolution Wednesday
that would terminate roll-off operations to all municipalities in the
county effective next January, took no action on it and instead, had an
open dialogue with many of the town’s town supervisors.
If the RRA does take that action down the road, it will be in the name
of saving money, but the towns says it would cost them financially and
environmentally.
Marbletown Supervisor Michael Warren attended the session and said it
was very production where town officials were, for the first time for
many RRA board members, able to explain their concerns.
“The problem is that as a public benefit corporation, and their
charter was actually set up to benefit the towns, you really can’t
just drop doing business with the towns, but their resolution says that,”
he said. “From a fiscal standpoint we understand where they are
coming from, but at the same time, we all have to work for the benefit
of the residents of Ulster County and to manage solid waste both efficiently
and economically.”
The Resource Recovery Agency will meet again in two weeks, but it is
unclear as to if it will act on the resolution.
