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| Landfill Aiding Mary Davis Home |
The landfill in Knox County has two separate funds, one of which will be providing aid to the Mary Davis Home in Galesburg.
The county board approved a resolution to move funds from the landfill's profit margin account into a special contingency fund.
Board Chairman Greg Bacon tells WGIL this account is normally used for buying items.
"We're taking the interest off of that, their investments, and that goes into a special contingency fund for the county," Bacon said. "Most of that money from the special contingency fund now is going to support the Mary Davis Home. The state payments for the Mary Davis Home are lacking behind almost 700,000 dollars a year."
Bacon says the two dollar fee for trucks entering through the gate at the landfill will continue to be collected towards funding for the Mary Davis Home as well.
He says over the past five years the state has failed to pay 3.3 million dollars for the home.
Board member Allen Pickrel, was one of two to not vote for the resolution's approval. He says he can't put the funding of county facilities ahead of finding a solution to how employee's insurance policies are paid for.
Pickrel, who was also against the tentative budgets approval, says taxpayer's dollars shouldn't be going towards the county's insurance.
In other business, the board last night approved a $8,800 dollar bid for M & O Insulation out of Peoria to begin removing asbestos from the Knox County Courthouse. Bacon called Wednesday night's approval a "banner day." |
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