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Public and assembly back purchase of recycling baler; ordinance to use ARPA funds for landfill compactor and building work set on consent agenda

5944338 · October 14, 2025
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Summary

The borough's finance committee placed an ordinance to spend roughly $1.7 million in federal/ARPA funds on Central Peninsula Landfill infrastructure on the consent agenda, drawing public comment requesting clearer cost breakdowns for a baler and related building work.

An ordinance accepting U.S. Treasury local assistance and tribal consistency funds to support Central Peninsula Landfill infrastructure improvements (Ordinance 2025‑19‑14) was discussed at the finance committee and placed on the assembly consent agenda on Oct. 14.

Finance Committee Chair Tom Tonseth summarized the ordinance as ARPA funds totaling roughly $1.7 million, with about $1.2 million allocated for a new compactor and $450,000 for removal of the old baler building and feasibility/design related to that building. "This includes $1,200,000 for the new compactor and then $450,000 which will be used to remove the old baler and to look at feasibility and design of the baler Building," Tonseth said during the committee report.

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