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or stay with the Updikes, answered Luke.
If the price changed by the Updikes goes up drastically in three years, then the county will have to either pay their rates or have two landfills, one private and one public,'observed Mrs. Helmer.
Luke disagreed with the assumption that the rates charged by the Updikes would necessarily increase drastically. He maintained that operating a landfill was a “good deal” for a contractor. The contractors’ initial land investment could be recouped after the life of the landfill was over by covering the site with soil applications, planting grass and then selling the property for grazing or home sites.
Mrs. Helmer claimed that vegetation could be grown on a landfill site only after the area was covered with chemically treated sludge, residue from sewage disposal plants. Luke and Davis quickly disagreed, both maintaining that sludge treatment was not the only way, just the quickest.
Supervisor Wood said he had told someone who asked him about the landfill that it wouldn’t be discussed at Thursday’s meeting. “I didn’t know it would be,” he said, adding that it hadn’t been on the agenda.
MAKING a decision on the landfill is a “tremendous and unpopular task,” maintained Commonwealth’s Attorney Davis. The county has to proceed, he said, or the state will come in with a lawsuit. Davis claimed that if an executive session would help the Supervisors study the issue unimpaired, then “for god’s sake, let them do it.”
Supervisor Clarence Baldwin said he talked to a number of “intelligent people” in his district—specifically mentioning attorney Jim Bill Fletcher—and as a result, he felt he had made the wrong decision in opting for a privately owned landfill. “I think I would change my vote on going with a private landfill. I don’t
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