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Mr. McCarthy noted that the county now pays $130,000 to transport trash from four dumpster sites.
“But those are different figures. They’re hauling all the way to Culpeper,” Chairman Gilkey pointed out.
Supervisor Charles Estes recalled that the contract price two years ago had been $62,000 to haul trash from four dumpsters and dispose of the municipal waste at the privately owned and operated landfill on Clifton Clark's property near Woodville. For hauling from Huntlv and Scrabble to Amissville, “I think anything over $60,000 would be high,” he maintained.
“I think anything over $20,000 would be high,” added Supervisor Ellis Bingham. If the dumpster sites are closed when the new landfill opens, it might “trigger the entrepreneural impulse” in someone who would stand to make as much as $30,000 a month for picking up trash from Rappahannock’s 3,000 households and transporting the garbage to the landfill, he said.
With a 70-mile roundtrip from Scrabble to Amissville, “trash will be dumped on the roadside” if the green boxes are eliminated, countered Mr. Estes. “I’d like to see how much it's going to cost for hauling before we decide to abandon the dumpsters.”
“It might be an expense the county is going to have to pay,” added Mr. Massie. “Maybe the citizens of Rappahannock want to keep those dumpster sites."
If the board chairman’s negotiation efforts are unsuccessful in lowering the $495,459 construction bid and Mr. Joyce’s operational estimates hold, “do we have to up the tax rate?” asked Mr. Massie.
With “worst case” operating expenses bringing solid waste disposal costs to $800,000 for 1988-69 and with a little less than $700,000 available from a 52-cent tax rate.
See TAX RATE, p 15
77.5%