Greater Greenville Sanitation directors and commissioners defend out-of-district service and transfer station plans

Greater Greenville Sanitation District officials appeared before the Greenville County Oversight Committee to update the committee on pending state legislation, a proposed transfer station on Highway 124 and the district’s ongoing out-of-district service.

Steve Cole, identified in the meeting as Greater Greenville’s director, and commissioners including Will Stewart and Tony Ernst described the status of two bills at the statehouse and said one amendment under consideration would keep operations within the district, raise the annexation threshold to 66%, prohibit noncontiguous annexations for four years, and limit the transfer station to district customers and intergovernmental agreements. “We stay within our district, operate within the confines of our district… it changes our annexation structure… and we agreed not to do any noncontiguous annexations for period of 4 years,” Commissioner Will Stewart said while summarizing changes on the floor of the Legislature.

Cole told the committee the district cannot move forward with a general-obligation bond for a transfer station while litigation and legislation remain pending. “They said they cannot move forward with the GO bond because of, all the litigations going on at the,” one of the commissioners said in reporting the situation. Committee members pressed staff on the transfer station site and on the district’s 156-acre purchase on Highway 124. Cole said the district previously owned another troubled property…