8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, August 21, 1991 DAMA (continued from page 1) Valley Sanitary Authority's treat- ment plant in the next two years, he and the five other DAMA em- ployees would still be needed to operate the pump station and maintain the 85 miles of sewer lines, which are still being added to. Jobs were not the reason the authority became involved in trash collection, according to Bagley. Medico also said that one of the issues that will come up in litiga- tion is that Ben Jones, solicitor for both Kingston Township and DAMA, may have a conflict of inter- est in representing both organiza- tions. Jones said Monday that he feels there is no conflict of interest in his serving on both posts. He would not comment on the upcoming liti- gation, saying he felt it would be unethical to do so. Attorney Gifford R. Cappellini said he will file a class action suit on behalf of Back Mountain resi- dents against DAMA and officials from the municipalities involved. , “An unelected and unrepresen- tative authority, known as the Dallas Area Municipal Authority, has decided to give an exclusive contract where other contracts are already in existence between resi- dents and their garbage haulers,” said Cappellini. Soccer (continued from page 1) Chuck Malpass of Shavertown is one of those introduced to the sport by his children “I've never played soccer. He started playing,” said Malpass, referring to his son Charlie, “and they needed someone to help so I helped. When first started knew nothing. You learn by watching.” Malpass has been coaching for seven years. In that time he's seen Charlie change his sports prefer- ence. “My son, at first he liked base- ball better, but now its soccer over baseball,” said Malpass. “I know why I like it better— there’s more action,” said Charlie, 14, who is in his seventh year of playing soccer. His sister, Gussie, 12, is in her sixth. Teachers (continued from page 1) In so doing, the teacher’s union hopes to increase salaries by some 50% over the next five years. This means the current average teacher salary of $38,646 would be raised to over $60,000 in the 1995-96 school year. At present, the teacher's com- mittee is seeking to increase the 1990-91 top end salary from $43,675 to $65,000 within five years. Based on current step progres- sion through the 1990-91 salary schedule, this means approxi- mately 91% of the district's 139 teaching staff would be receiving salaries of $65,000 in the 1995-96 school year. Through its contract proposals, the District is seeking to enhance the educational process for stu- dents and raise the quality and level of accountability regarding the types of college courses teach- ers take to receive additional compensation on the salary sched- ule. A PACKED HOUSE - More than 200 people jammed the Kingston Township Municipal Building August 14 to protest the township's ratifying of an agreement with the Dallas Area Municpal Authority, giving the authority the responsibility to collect garbage and recycable materials. The protests were to no avail, the supervisors ratified the agreement on a vote of three to one. votes program over protests Kingston Twp. Protests from 200 people op- posed to DAMA's garbage and re- cycling plan did not stop the King- ston Township supervisors from voting three to one to ratify the agreement between DAMA and the township at their meeting August 14. After 40 minutes of vocal com- plaints from the overflowing meet- ing room, the supervisors packed up and left. However, Township Manager Jeffrey Box did promise to contact Dallas Borough and Dallas Township to form a com- mittee to address residents’ com- plaints, which centered on the requirement that all homes be served by Danella Environmental Technologies, with whom DAMA contracted for garbage services. Box said that the committee would be formed after Dallas Bor- ough and Dallas Township held votes on August 20 to ratify the service agreement with DAMA. Members of the crowd promised to show up en masse at those meet- ings. Township supervisors Herbert Hill, Benjamin Franklin and Daniel Wisnieski voted to ratify the agree- ment, and William Tippett voted against it. Supervisor Donald YTB Prepare [I EREVCS HéR BLOCK INCOME TAX TRAINING SCHOOL Ml increase your tax knowledge HM obtain a new skill HM convenient times & locations For More Information Call: (717) 288-288-9397 or (717) 344-6119 or 1-800-TAX-2000 Gavigan was on vacation in Flor- ida and the Bahamas and could not attend the meeting - but said Monday he would have voted for the agreement. “I had no idea that this thing was going to come up at this time,” said Gavigan, who had to schedule the time off in the spring to coordi- nate it with his wife's vacation time. “Anyone who voted against it, I feel would be betraying the trust of the people,” said Gavigan. “It took us almost a year to put this in place. If we don’t comply and don't have everything in line by Septem- ber 1, we'll be fined. Those fines can go as high as $1,000 a day. That can break a township.” During the meeting, the super- visors were presented with a letter and petitions gathered by the newly formed Back Mountain Citizens, Residents and Taxpayers Associa- tion. According to Donna Fowler, about 1,000 people have signed the petition inoppositionto DAMA's waste collection plan. The letter demanded to know why the municipality or DAMA had not applied for state grants to pay for recycling equipment. “The equipment can be leased to BUCKY'S =z AUTO BODY & FRAME . private haulers,” said Jack Fowler, who acted as one of the primary spokespersons for the vocal crowd during the meeting. “You're taking taxpayers and putting them out of business. These are Back Moun- tain residents. We're talking about a freedom you're trying to take away from us - the freedom of choice.” “Why didn’t you include Back Mountain haulers in this?” asked Donna Fowler, of Shavertown. “You could have used more than one. Being that these were Back Moun- tain haulers, why were they not contacted?” At an earlier meeting of oppo- nents to the DAMA garbage con- tract, Fred Searles Jr. of Dallas, owner of Searles Sanitation, told residents who wished to use his service to pay DAMA only for the amount of time that DAMA had picked up. As the August 14 meeting ended, Barbara Shatrowskas, of Mount Olivet Road in the township, said that protesters should find three Democratic write-in candidates to run against the unopposed incum- bents in November's general elec- tion. “Jim McNulty did itin Scran- ton,” she said. Problems (continued from page 1) The cost is higher in South Abington Township because Dan- ella does the billing, instead of DAMA, as in the Back Mountain. . South Abington was mandated by the state to begin a recycling by September, but started early on January 1. : “The only outcry we had was after it started and we received the first bill,” said Chris Boettcher, the township's recycling coordina- tor. “It was from residents, not from haulers. One important difference between the South Abington and : DAMA contracts is that South Abington Township has the right to grant exemptions for people who can prove that any garbage that has to be collected. they don’t produce - “We have 101 exemptions on file,” said Boettcher. “Most of these ° people are either single or an elderly couple, and of those mostare - burning and composting. These people are b make sure they're not doing anything like backyard. It was written in from the start becau eing monitored to - burying it in the . se we figured there were going to be situations - say the house is for sale.” According to Rick Solomon, owner of Solomon Industries, a - garbage and recycables hauler based in Wilkes provisions are not unusual in garbage programs. He gave Hanover °. Township as an example. -Barre, exemption The Dallas Area Municipal Authority's contract with Danella : Environmental Technologies does not contain provisions for making exemptions. “Outof 1,950 customers we had a total of three people who com- - | plained that they lost the right to choose their own hauler,” Boettcher said. She referred the protesters solicitor who explained that the township did have the right to contract waste collection. to the township Before the township started the program, residents were free to choose any garbage hauler they wished, but most paid for that right with extra cash. , “People would ask us who does your garbage and we told them to ask their neighbors or look in the yellow pages. They would call biggest complaint,” said Boettcher. “Most of the people in the township were paying approximately $240 a year. I myself was paying $240 a year. inoneyear's time. In our experience it was a cost savings for a good 87 percent of our customers,” Boettcher said. us and complain about the rates and we would say we hil %& - nothing todo with them. I've been here 12 years - : as the governing and running of the township goes, that was the inthose 12 years It almost doubled 7 i ATHLETIC CENT wysocKl’ N ER * « oJ ] Shop Wysocki's for a Soccer needs. 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