MASON CITY – The Mason City Council and Mayor Eric Bookmeyer held a work session Tuesday night, discussing its 28E agreement with the North Iowa Landfill.
All were present except council member Travis Hickey. North Iowa Landfill representatives were also in attendance.
The 28E agreement, which is decades old, binds Mason City to the landfill and governs how the landfill works regarding voting on landfill matters and how a community may leave the landfill.
Tuesday night, the city’s representative on the landfill board, City Council member Scott Tornquist, presented to the council possible changes to the 28E agreement and asked for opinions from his colleagues before going before the board with the city’s preferences.
Most of the discussion focused on two key issues: 1)A community leaving the landfill and taking its “share” of the landfill’s worth with it, and 2) weighted voting on the board itself.
There was also heavy discussion on “quorums” and how to prevent future votes on issues from being sabotaged by representatives from smaller communities not showing up. Further, there was talk of at least Mason City sending more representatives to the board in the future to break up the 19 votes the city’s one representative (Tornquist) now possesses.
Watch video of entire discussion on the landfill:
httpv://youtu.be/9h1tfkwHt9Q
Mason City has nineteen votes on the landfill board I want nineteen people voting for our town not just Scott Tornquist.
This is nothing more then Tornquist and Bookmeyer trying to get even for CES failure. Good thing this community had the landfill board or else Tornquist and Bookmeyer would have rammed this thing through. This is the worst leadership I have seen in this community in my 50 years of living here.
It sounds like Turncoat and his master the Beermeister are out to settle the score for the vote not going the way they wanted it. I have read where the trash company has been shut down in Green Bay. We are lucky we didn’t have any more into it. Just another hairbrained idea by our city.
Didn’t I read a article about the company that recyled trash. That wanted to put one here was shut down by the City of Green Bay. Boy I’m glad they didn’t come here. All they have done has forced people going to the dump to go clear to the back dump. They took the large bins out they had right up by the scale. You would think they have bigger problems then our trash. Like Robins statues. Yikes
The company that wanted to build in Mason City was not involved in the Green Bay project. The only common thing was the manufacturer of the equipment they were going to use.
The company that was building in Green Bay was the same company as CES ( or what ever their name is now) or again they were not telling the truth. They kept saying how they were building in Green Bay. Oh by the way the company will not tell Mason City what other 3 cities are looking at them because they do not Mason City to influence the other cities. My guess is the cities are not looking at them but more like the company is looking to find some other city to crawl into.
Hi J, you are incorrect. The Green Bay plant was being built by one of the Indian tribes in Wisconsin. Review the record. CES was not involved with that plant but was going to use the same technology.
This time next year we will be close to I hope having a new mayor and hope tornquist is gone. Only ONE more year :)))))))
When are the members and Bookmeyers terms up? It can’t come soon enough!
Since Mason City does pay the lion,s share of the fees it only makes sense that they look at the weight they have when it comes to votes. The landfill couldn’t survive without Mason City. if the small communities decide not to show up for a meeting to make having a quorum possible that is a form of economic blackmail. Exactly how much does each community pay to the landfill? I would like to see those figures too.
In other words Adoulf Tornquist and the beerman are seeking revenge on the failed trash burn plant. These two are so pathetic. They purely want total control of the LNI board.