A motion by Dodge County Commissioner Brian Watkins to allow Duane Conley to move the dumpster site located on the Airport Road found no support from fellow commissioner board members at the February 6, 2012 meeting, leaving the dumpsters to remain untouched at their present location.
A public hearing and discussion was the first topic of discussion on the lengthy agenda regarding the moving of the Airport Road dumpsters to a new location selected by neighboring resident Duane Conley. In a letter to the board of commissioners, Conley asked that the board allow him to move the newly constructed dumpster site, with no expense to the county, from its present location to a new location due to trash being on his adjoining property. Conley provided aerial maps of the proposed site.
Public comments were made from meeting attendees Johnny Thompson, Harold Rutherford, Roy Grenade, Conley, Kenneth Williamson and local airport manager Jeff Fordham, regarding the dumpsters.
The proposed new site for the dumpsters was the same location denied by the Eastman-Dodge County Development Authority back in 2011.
In a recent meeting on Monday, January 23, 2012, the development authority voted to give the board of commissioners permission to make a new recommendation on a proposed relocation site for the dumpsters with a stipulation that the development authority would have final site approval should the commissioners vote to agree to allow Conley move the dumpsters from the current site.
Due to the motion dying on the table at Monday night’s board meeting, the development authority will not have to review any new site approvals regarding the dumpsters on the Airport Road.
The Airport Road dumpster site has been an ongoing controversy and a continued agenda item for the board of commissioners since 2010.
