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Select Board reviews draft waste services agreement; town to own transfer station and composter under new deal

2938646 · April 10, 2025
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Summary

Staff and consultants presented a near-final draft of a waste services agreement that would move ownership of the composting facility and transfer station to the town, create eight defined service areas with fee structures, and give the town more control and transparency over capital and operational decisions.

The Select Board received an overview April 9 of a draft waste services agreement and an associated asset purchase and sale that would transfer the composting facility and transfer station into town ownership and set a new, more-detailed operating contract with Waste Options.

Town consultants, including solid-waste adviser George Aronson, said the draft divides site operations into eight service areas (composting/biosolids, yard waste/feedstocks, landfill/residuals, MRF/recycling, transfer station operations, hard-to-manage wastes, the citizen drop-off center,…

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