DIDSBURY - The Mountain View Regional Waste Management Commission (MVRWMC) will continue to provide hauling from its municipal recycling centres, reversing an earlier decision to stop the service, officials said.
At a recent board meeting, members voted to rescind resolution 142-18, which was passed in July and called for hauling to be discontinued.
The recycling centres provide a place for users to drop off such things as cardboard, plastics, paper and glass.
Mary Anne Overwater, chair of the MVRWMC and an Olds town councillor, said the decision to continue providing hauling from the centres is part of an ongoing review.
"We're status quo until our administration can have an opportunity to go through the whole business plan for the commission, which includes the recycling centres, transfer stations and the landfill," said Overwater.
"We were going to turn over the unmanned transfer stations and recycling centres to the municipalities but we're just going to operate status quo until our administration can go through everything."
The July resolution also called on the commission to "maintain the recycling at the transfer stations and that the chair send a letter to all member municipalities in regards to changes to the waste services agreement."
During the September MVRWMC meeting, board members passed a motion "that the commission continue the hauling of the municipal recycle centres in the 2019 budget and direct administration to prepare a definitive operating agreement of the municipal recycle centres."
The commission is made up of representatives from Olds, Sundre, Didsbury, Carstairs, Cremona and Mountain View County. It coordinates the management and disposal of solid waste for the municipalities within Mountain View County.
The commission hired a new CAO, Michael Wuetherick, and a new chief financial officer, Brian Anderson, this past summer.
