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Minutes for the City Council meeting on October 6, 1986
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CITY COUNCIL MINUTES OCTOBER 6, 1986
The Jonesboro City Council met at 7:30 p.m. Present were Mayor, City Clerk, City Attorney, and Aldermen Park, Stricklin, Hinson, Evans, Bridger, Hannah, Strauser, Sanderson, Culpepper, Mays and Nix. Absent was Mr. Shelton.
The minutes of September 15, 1986, and Called Meeting minutes of September 22, 1986, were approved as mailed on motion by Mr. Hannah, seconded by Mr. Stricklin. All voted aye.
Randall Mathis, Assistant Director of Pollution, Control and Ecology addressed the Council regarding a letter to the municipality dated September 8, 1986. He commended the efforts of the City of Jonesboro, the Solid Waste Authority, and various industries in their cooperative efforts to solve the landfill problems. He stated that the Department of Pollution, Control and Ecology has given the City of Jonesboro, County of Craighead, and other municipalities in the county 180 days to develop a solid waste collection and disposal program. By November 8, a plan must be received by PC & E outlining the landscaping, contour, re-vegetation, financial management, collection, transportation, and the location of 2 or 3 monitoring wells of a landfill, as outlined under Section 3 or the code. He reviewed the state department evaluation of the present landfill by stating: (A) In September, 1983 barrels of liquid waste were found at the landfill and thus PC & E banned the disposal of industrial waste. (B) In March, 1984, PC & E reclassified the Jonesboro landfill permit from Class I to Class IV and the city successfully delayed the order by conducting the cleanup and testing. He further stated that PC & E expects the city to begin closing down the landfill as required under the state permit secured by the city more than a decade ago. He stated PC & E has not been picking on Jonesboro, and noted the agency decided in early 1984 to take action against a number of landfills in the st...
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