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WARREN During a Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management District meeting Tuesday marked by gridlock, with the six county commissioners mostly voting against the other county on most of the issues raised, Trumbull County commissioners reasserted a desire to break up the district and separate from Geauga County.
The district’s board is composed of the three Geauga County commissioners James Dvorak, Timothy Lennon and Ralph Spidalieri and the three Trumbull County commissioners, Mauro Cantalamessa, Niki Frenchko and Frank Fuda.
The six split, voting on county lines, on nearly every issue in the nearly two-hour long meeting full of tense debate and more than one or two terse, sarcastic or insulting comments.
With the resignation of a Geauga County Department of Water Resourcesâ operator, the McFarland Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is no longer in state compliance, department Director Steve Oluic informed commissioners last week.
The Geauga Commissioners approved the resignation of the class three McFarland plant operator during the Jan. 5 meeting. Dr. Oluic told the commissioners that this is the second and final class three plant operator heâs lost, and with no class three operators, the McFarland plant is officially out of compliance under Ohio Environmental Protection Agency regulations until they can find a replacement for the position.
âThey both left for pay reasons,â Dr. Oluic said, explaining the first person to resign moved to a North Royalton plant where he would make an additional $9 per hour compared to Geauga and the second operator to resign moved to a Bedford Heights plant to make an additional $3 per hour.