Surprise! Council Denies WMI Proposal
As stated below Waste Management offered the Trotwood City Council $600,000 per year. The council refused and denied the landfill proposal on April 19, 2005. Waste Management has bought a 660 acre site in Trotwood. Stay tuned. WMI will probably sue the city if the it follows what it did in the Dayton situation several years ago. The citizens have been very effective and won at least for now!
Waste Management Provides "Bribe" to Ohio Suburb
Trotwood, Ohio, City Council adopted an ordinance several months ago limiting landfill size. Now Waste Management is offering the small integrated city $600,000 yearly from "fee associated with the landfill." (Dayton Daily News 4/9/05). This fee is no more than the typical legal bribe offered to municipalities to accept a huge landfill. Call for Action are actively protesting publicly with innovative actions. Now the council weighs the huge increase of funds over against the citizen opposition.
On April 8th there was a meeting between Waste Management and the Trotwood administrators. They meeting location was changed at the last minute but protestors still were going public at the city government center. Waste Management area Vice President Robert A. Smith also offered to conduct a study to attract business and jobs. Smith also offered to make property it owns for parks and recreation! They also offered the Citizens Advisory Committee to "inspect the facility on a regular basis."
Interim City Manager Michael Lucking will meet soon with the city council to go over the Waste Management proposal.
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