Motions for tobacco, cottonwood tree bans get no takers
Staff writer
The City of Marion does not want to be in the construction and demolition landfill business.
Marion City Council decided Monday evening to not be the operators of a C&D landfill near Marion because of the expense involved and unknown revenue to be gained.
Rocky Hett recently obtained a conditional use permit for the C&D landfill from the city and is moving forward with obtaining a permit from Kansas Department of Health & Environment but doesn’t want to operate it.
City administrator David Mayfield said the city would be responsible for erecting a fence around the perimeter of the landfill, a bulldozer, one full-time employee, a small office building, and scales. He added that the cost of a full-time employee could be $26,000 with benefits.
“It would be a big investment for the city and I don’t know what the return would be,” Mayfield said.
The council agreed and voted 5-0 not to pursue the project.
In other business:
- Councilman Bill Holdeman made a motion to ban tobacco in Marion City Building but it died for the lack of a second.
- Holdeman then made a motion to prohibit the planting of female cottonwood trees that produce cotton but that motion died for a lack of a second.
- The council did approve the updated standard traffic ordinance and uniform public offense code ordinance.
- The renewal of a state liquor license for Superior Wine & Liquor of Marion was acknowledged.