Wednesday, November 10, 1999
Waste gripes heard
CSI official questioned on practices
BY RAY SCHAEFER
Enquirer Contributor
COVINGTON — City Commissioners and one resident dumped a load of complaints Tuesday about waste collection on the Florence company that has the contract to remove Covington's garbage.
Jack Baker, a representative of CSI of Northern Kentucky, asked the city for permission to use the Covington transfer station to accept waste from Hamilton and Clermont counties in Ohio.
Commissioners eventually tabled the request until they could talk about it further, but not before they unloaded on Mr. Baker.
Among the issues:
• Collection times. Commissioner Jim Eggemeier said CSI routinely picks up trash in his neighborhood as early as 3:40 a.m., when the contract prohibits collection before 7 a.m.
• Education about recycling. Commissioner Butch Callery said he has seen nothing from CSI.
• Availability of recycling containers. Leslie Schott-Jackson, who lives in South Covington, said her calls to CSI to get a container were never re turned, and she had to ask a truck driver for one.
• The types and amounts of waste from Ohio that would come to Covington. Mr. Baker did not know how many more trucks would come, but he said only residential waste would be dumped.
“We will look into the subjects you all raised,” Mr. Baker said. “I have not been aware of any issues such as these.”
CSI was awarded the contract in 1991. It is set to expire in 2001.
Commissioners also:
• Approved accepting a four-year, $166,000 federal grant for the police department. Lt. Col. Bill Dorsey, the assistant chief, said the money would be used to hire two new officers for the traffic division, create a second traffic division shift and pay for equipment.
The city would not have to pay anything the first three years of the grant and would have an option to pay 35 percent the fourth year.
• Passed 4-1 a resolution to spend $61,800 to allow Hub & Weber, a Covington architectural firm, to create designs for a proposed swimming pool at Latonia Elementary School at the corner of 39th Street and Huntington Avenue.
City Engineer Terry Hughes said the pool would replace one at Rosedale Park that was damaged in the 1997 flood and later closed. He said formal plans would be presented ei ther in January or February, with construction to be completed by mid-2001.
“I would estimate (cost) between $500,000 and $1.5 million,” Mr. Hughes said.
Mayor Denny Bowman voted against the resolution. He said that having a pool at the school would greatly increase traffic on 39th and 40th streets and that the city should examine other locations.
• Appointed David Buerger as acting recreation director. He replaces Chod Hobbs, who resigned last week, citing health reasons.
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