Just in --The McMinnville City Council last night (the 27th) voted 5-0 to turn down Waste Management's offer of cash for, well, for just being a city within the jurisdiction of the county that must rule on its application to expand.
With Kevin Jeffries taking the lead, the Council made clear that taking money from a garbage dump that wants to expand closer to McMinnville, and that is opposed by 90% of the members of the Willamette Valley Wineries Association, is not in the City's best interests.
McMinnville has taken several actions recently to make itself a more "sustainable" city, including training city employees and developing a Sustainability Action Plan. Assisting in the addition of yet more landfill capacity would violate the Plan's objectives, according to Council members.
To the delight of all who oppose increasing the bloat of waste sitting on the South Yamhill River, the City remains firmly opposed to landfill expansion.
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