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BOC to consider five-day week at transfer station

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Wednesday, March 10. 2010

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Madison County commissioners may consider opening the transfer station an extra day each week.

County commission chairman Anthony Dove told BOC members March 1 that he doesn’t think the current Wednesday-Saturday schedule provides the most efficient setup. He said the station is often under-utilized early in the morning and late in the evening. He suggested the county open the transfer station on Tuesdays. He said a switch from 7 a.m. to 5:50 p.m. hours of operation to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. seems feasible.

“The transfer station is a service, a place for citizens to take their trash and I just don’t think it’s being used efficiently,” said Dove.

The chairman noted that the transfer station spent $159,000 less than projected last year, but revenue shortfalls nearly ate up all of the savings. He said he believes the revenues were down primarily because the station was closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, which were busy days for trash haulers before the county switched in recent years to a four-day week at the transfer station.

“I would like for the board to start looking at that (changing hours of operation) and I will bring that before you at next month’s meeting,” said Dove.

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#1 worker on 03/10/10 at 12:50 PM [Reply]

No. It's working great. People who work cannot get there by 5. This has been one of the few things MC Govt. got RIGHT. Less trash is being dumped illegally because more people can get over there when it's open later.

Dove doesn't have much common sense. The reason it hasn't been utilized later for the past 3 months is the days have been shorter and we have not been on Daylight Saving Time. Daylight Saving Time comes back this month, so people will need the waste station open later when they can actually get out and get stuff done (like going to the waste station) after work. If you put it back like it was, it won't be utilized at all during the week and everyone will be piling in all at once, waiting in line, leaving dumping trash on road so they don't have to wait, etc., JUST LIKE IT USED TO BE. If you're going to do that, may as well just close during the week and just be open Saturday and Sunday.

This is working great. You'll see when Daylight Time comes back this month. And the employees have one less day of commute - saving our hardworking employees time and money.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

#2 Resident Redneck on 03/11/10 at 01:53 AM [Reply]

Wait all the BOC has been talking about for months is about how they need to cut the budget and now they are yalking about wasting money because somebody is going to have to pay the people to come in for that extra day. HOW MUCH IS THAT GOING TO COST? Because you know ain't nobody going to donate their day off to work at the dump without getting paid?
Here's an ideal on this extra day let the BOC go down and run the place that way after about a month of playing in Madison County Residents trash they'll know more about the people of Madison County and how they live and what's important to them.

#2.1 Read and Add on 03/12/10 at 01:13 AM [Reply]

Redneck... Read a little deeper. The landfill would open an hour later and close almost an hour earlier. That's two hours, move those hours from the four days and you can add a fifth day with them. No extra money would be spent.

#2.1.1 Resident Redneck on 03/12/10 at 07:49 AM [Reply]

Hey I read the story and by the way you are talking They'll have 2 extra hours to spare so are you saying on the extra day the dump will be open it won't be open but 2 hours? What's the point in evem opening up for only 2 hours? The 2 hours pay they will be getting won't be worth them getting up and getting ready to come all the way to Danielsville for only 2 hours.

#2.1.2 Anonymous on 03/12/10 at 01:00 PM [Reply]

Costs those employees money. Now they have to pay to drive back and forth to the waste station one extra day with no add'l. compensation.

And above is right. Daylight savings time means people will need the waste station open later. It's working. Leave it be.

#3 Solution-minded on 03/11/10 at 12:27 PM [Reply]

Perhaps there is a middle ground solution....why not be open a shorter day on Tuesday & Wednesday, say 1-5pm, with 7-5:50 on Thru, Fri & Saturday.

#4 Robert Fanning on 03/14/10 at 08:03 PM [Reply]

Or five days 12:00-6:00 pm with Saturday 7:00 to 5:00

Or some other permutation that fits with commercial dumping and working people's schedules.

#4.1 Resident Redneck on 03/15/10 at 09:51 AM [Reply]

No Robert they don't care if it fits into working peoples schedule? They will say the dump is open for people to use but can't figure out why people won't use it.

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