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Sunbury council adopts regional solid waste plan update 7-0
Summary
The Sunbury City Council voted unanimously to approve the Delaware-Knox-Marion-Morrow Joint Solid Waste Management District five-year plan update during its regular meeting; council also approved routine minutes and appointed a zoning board member.
The Sunbury City Council on a 7-0 roll call vote adopted Resolution 2025.07, approving the Delaware-Knox-Marion-Morrow Joint Solid Waste Management District five-year solid waste management plan update.
The measure, presented during the council’s second-reading items, passed after the council voted to suspend the rules and then approved the resolution by roll call. Mayor St. John presided over the vote.
Why it matters: the five-year update is the district’s planning document that guides regional trash, recycling and related programs across participating counties. Council members said the update needed council action at the meeting to meet the district’s submission timeline.
Council business at the meeting also included approval of minutes and an appointment to the Board of Zoning Appeals. The council approved minutes from its March 19 meeting on a motion by Miss Dreher, seconded by Mister Grumley, and approved minutes from the March 22 special meeting on a motion by Mister Martin, seconded by Damon Capel; both measures passed by roll call. Later in the meeting council appointed Shannon Stark to fill a vacated Board of Zoning Appeals seat; the motion to appoint was made by Mister Martin and seconded by Mister Ghost and passed by roll call.
Public comment included a resident complaint about newly painted curb/parking lines near Cherry Street that he said reduced customer parking in front of his business; Rob Platt, a Sunbury resident, told council that two former parking spaces now marked with lines were limiting customer access and asked the city to restore parking where appropriate. “You can’t park there. No. You can’t park there,” Platt said while describing repeated incidents where customers parked in the newly marked areas.
Council directed staff to follow up: Mister Hennessy, city administrator, said staff would get the speaker’s contact information and have a team member reach out to him about the concern.
Ending: Council members also discussed other agenda items that did not require immediate action, including multiple first readings of ordinances and committee reports; no additional votes were taken on the first-reading ordinances at this meeting.
