Solid Waste Authority Hires Landfill Manage and Landfill Equipment Operator

The Pocahontas County Solid Waste authority (SWA) members went into an Executive Session at the end of their special SWA meeting on November 9^th to conduct personnel interviews. When returning to open session, they announced that they are hiring Evan Bosley as their Landfill Manager. Bosley, who is replacing Chris McComb, will have a salary of $32.00 per hour, and will start in three weeks. Bosley has years of landfill experience.

They also announced the hiring of Cody Rexrode as their new Landfill Equipment Operator at $20.00 per hour. Rexrode will start in two weeks.

These job openings had been advertised in the Pocahontas Times for one week.

Also, at this special SWA meeting, the SWA members voted to purchase two new HP laptop computers for the office staff. These will cost an estimated $1,600 each. They will also keep their existing desktop computer. They explained that these laptops will now allow more than one employee at a time to work on their accounting software. Member Dave Henderson suggested that they consider purchasing these through the state purchasing system since that might provide a better price, and the other members agreed that should be looked at and considered.  The members also approved the purchase of Quick Books On-Line, which will enable the office staff to more quickly load the green box fee billing.

The members then voted to have their garbage truck taken to a shop because it needs brakes and tires. They said they have to schedule that for noon on a Tuesday and have the truck back in service before 11 am the following Thursday to minimize disruptions to scheduled trash hauling.

There was a discussion about the pay of the Scale Operator at the landfill, who currently makes a little more than $13.00 per hour, but has requested a rate of $17.00 per hour. They pointed out that the Scale Operator also has other record keeping responsibilities and they voted to raise his salary to $16.50 per hour. They also set the pay of the driver at $20.00 per hour.

The members discussed needed landfill repairs at the greenhouse and pond, including the back section which is not running; a blown motor needing replacement; installation of a safety shield work on the electrical box bracket and breakers; as well as replacing broken windows and an outdated fire hydrant. The members voted unanimously to do these repairs.

Lastly, before going into the above hiring Executive Session, they discussed a rumor that while core drilling at the landfill site of the formerly proposed transfer station, JacMal Industries may have drilled into a pipe. Henderson said he is aware of the locations of all the buried pipes at the landfill, and there are none buried anywhere near that site. Since there is no conclusive evidence that this occurred, no action was taken.