County planning department secures $423,000 grant to pilot municipal waste-hauling program

During the public-comment portion of the meeting a county supervisor announced that the planning department has secured a six-figure grant — $423,000 — to support a municipal waste-hauling initiative that will purchase a truck and fund a driver for three years. The supervisor, speaking from the dais, said the project is organized under the county's solid-waste coordinator and that Supervisors Marlino and Strow are on the working group overseeing the initiative. "It's for the county waste, the municipal waste hauling initiative. That's $423,000 to buy a new truck and fund a driver for 3 years," the supervisor said. The item matters because it provides capital and operating funding intended to address municipal waste-hauling needs in the county; the speaker described the grant as enabling purchase of equipment and short-term staffing. The transcript does not include the grant source (state, federal or private), procurement details for the truck or the operating plan beyond the three-year driver funding. The supervisor framed the announcement as background for the working-group work; there was no formal board vote on the grant recorded in the provided excerpt. County residents seeking more detail were directed in the meeting to contact local school districts or the United Way for unrelated backpack-distribution events mentioned by other supervisors; no additional public Q&A about the grant appears in the recorded excerpt.