THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, January 10, 1995 TAG: 9501100334
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: Short : 27 lines
Mayor H. Rick Gardner broke the second tie in a row on recycling issues by voting to table a plan to farm out recycling duties to Waste Industries Inc.
After receiving word that penalties for putting recyclables in the waste stream had been pushed back from March to July, the council decided it did not need to rush into a contract to privatize the job. Last week members had taken the first of two necessary votes toward going the private route.
Voting with Gardner to table the measure were council members W.L. ``Pete'' Hooker, David P. Bosomworth, Dorothy Stallings and Jimi Sutton. Voting against were members Lloyd Griffin, Myrtle Rivers, A.C. Robinson Jr. and Anita Hummer.
``I hate to see council divided on this,'' Gardner said. ``It seems that we all want to move forward by letting the city handle it, and yet we get a split vote.'' by CNB