County leaders agreed to find the money to host a Scrap Tire Day after it was learned the state would not provide its usual allotment.
At its Aug. 6 meeting, the Worcester County Commissioners voted 6-1, with Commissioner Joe Mitrecic opposed, to find county dollars to fund a Scrap Tire Day in 2024. Public Works Director Dallas Baker reported the cost was typically covered by the Maryland Department of the Environment.
“Every year, we have a Scrap Tire Day in the county that is sponsored by the state,” he told the commissioners. “They generally give us money to pay for the recycling of these tires. The state has said they are not doing that this year.”
Have to agree with Metricic on this one. Plus you pay at the landfill to bring tires. The Roads dept is responsible for road cleanup. So you get all these tires, and it’s the landfill who staffs the event not the Roads dept. Tires are brought into the landfill. Land fill staff has to deal with it. On Monday morning. County pays to have them hauled off. Is that in the 6 grand? Or charged to the Landfill? It’s pretty much a cluster F, for the landfill. And Roads dept doesn’t do squat to help, or any other dept, for that matter. Typical county mentality. Let’s spend taxpayer money on a wasteful project, so Bakers pet dept doesn’t have to do anything, like road cleanup. Tires will still be on the side of the road. Responsible people will be the ones bringing them, not the lazy ones who throw them out on the side of the road.