RISON - Most of Monday night’s regular monthly meeting of the Cleveland County Quorum Court dealt with projects related to county-owned facilities, ranging from the solid waste transfer state to the elevator inside the courthouse.
Among those attending the meeting was county judge-elect Jim Houston, who won the Republican runoff election on March 31 and will be unopposed in the November general election.
County Judge Don Triplett told the quorum court that some of the coverings for the roll-off bins at the solid waste transfer station on Hwy. 79 will not work.
During the March quorum court meeting, Triplett assigned a committee of Justices of the Peace Ricky Neal, Melody Spears and Charles Rodgers to review how the county should proceed with putting covers over the bins as recommended by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality.
What the committee discovered was that the covers that were ordered by the late County Judge Jimmy Dale Adair were offset and would not work for some of the roll-off containers.
Triplett also expressed concerns about the approaches to those bins for the trucks picking them up and dropping them off. He suggested putting down concrete slabs beneath the roll-off bins used for scrap metal and tires. Triplett pointed out that the trucks were rutting out the ground around the bins as they backed in to place to deliver or pick up the binds.
The judge estimated the two slabs will cost about $12,000 and the county has about $23,000 available for the project. Spears pointed out that the Southeast Arkansas Regional Solid Waste Management District also has money available to help put in the concrete. County Treasurer Angie Kimsey noted that the county has about $42,000 in its recycling fund that could be used as well.
On that, Justice Donnie Herring made a motion to take bids on putting in the concrete slabs at the transfer station as well as the covers. His motion was approved without opposition.
In the county judge’s report to the qu…