Solid Waste Board officials see potential demise

Decatur Daily Democrat:

The Adams County Solid Waste Management District Board is preparing to take action to help thwart a possible move in the Indiana legislature to prevent property taxes from being used to finance all the county solid waste districts in the state and to keep the local waste-handling operation going in a different way if such a bill becomes law.

At Monday's meeting of the solid waste board, the members heard from Matt Lehman of Berne, the Republican state representative whose district includes Adams County, about a possible bill that was first filed a few years ago by a state senator from Hancock County.

Lehman said the 2011 measure, in the form of a resolution, never got out of a committee in the Senate and said, "There is little or no support in the Senate" for the idea. He said the chairman of the House committee that would consider such a bill "has no interest in this at all."