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SECTION THREE - WILLIAMSON COUNTY LANDFILL TRANSCRIPT FOR APPROVAL OF THE 2003 CONTRACT WITH WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. (10/28/2003)
BOATRIGHT: Dwight (Pittman) do you know if this permit--is it irrevocable? In other words, do we have to, is there somebody from Waste Management, is it irrevocable or is there going to be new standards that will come along that will require amending the permit, or ...?
PITTMAN: Well, there are permit amendments on what I would call almost on a continual basis, every time these standards come out, somewhat, the older landfills get forced into applying ....
BOATRIGHT: Ok. Doug, have you looked at it? (No response.) Uh, Gene is ... The only one I had a question on here was number 14--site expansion--but I think I've got that figured out now.
PITTMAN: Let me ...
LIMMER: Well, tell them first what we added into it--what we're actually getting in addition to our old contract we've had with them. Greg (Boatright), we're getting some perques out of it.
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NOTES
The identity of "Doug" as cited by Boatright is not known. His reference to "Gene" is probably Gene Taylor, the county attorney at the time. Boatright's reference to Section 14 of the "agreement", about which he says, " ... --but I think I've got that figured out now," is never explained. Section 14 references a "present expansion" of the landfill, but the statement in the "agreement" is imprecise. Does it mean an expansion which would be the result of a new permit expansion application at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), or simply an expansion occurring (at the time) of a cell in the existing landfill? To read Section 14 (and to see the entire "agreement", click on the link below.
Limmer's reference to the "perques" which will benefit the county in the new agreement is an attempt to put a positive spin the royalties received by the county from Waste Management. Those "perques" only amount to an increase of one-fourth of one percent (.0025 of gross revenues) for each increase of 50,000 tons of solid waste per year above the 200,000 tons-per-year threshhold. The amount, in relative terms, is paltry, in consideration of the fact that for the base amount of volume Waste Management keeps 92.5 percent of the landfill revenues, a much more lucrative deal for Waste Management than other contractors have in running landfills which they don't own.