From the Committee to Elect Randy Sanne, Commissioner Position 1-
Regarding the recent layoffs at the Coos County Solid Waste facility the reduction in force is not likely to save the county any money and may cost the county badly needed revenue. Our revenue is made at the scale when commercial haulers and private citizens bring their garbage to the site. No revenue is generated when either storing or incinerating trash. Additional revenue is made through the metal reclamation but the process requires a full staff and occasional temporary help. On Monday march 5th five of us worked on the metal shaker (four of whom were laid off on March 6th) and we were able to recover five 10 yard dump truck loads of metal in six hours. In six hours at today’s recycle prices, metal reclamation earned enough to pay our wages for a week.
Commissioner Parry is quoted as saying the layoffs were necessary because costs are too high with the incinerator idled, but not running the incinerator reduces costs slightly, costs do not increase. In fact, the plant is currently storing the garbage it receives, and has the ability to store two to three weeks worth, so there are no incineration costs, and the plant is actually gaining revenue. It will not be until we have to start trucking garbage to a landfill that we will see a negative impact.
It is my belief that the cost of incineration and the cost of transporting raw waste to a landfill are currently about the same; however rising fuel costs are only going to increase the cost of transporting raw garbage making incineration more cost effective. One only has to look at the mountains of raw waste being created at sites like Short Mountain and Coffin Butte landfills to see the benefit of incineration with regard to both volume and long term environmental effect. Incineration reduces volume by 90% and converts the waste to ash which has amounted to one and a half mounds of ash in the last 30 years at the Beaver Hill facility.
Commissioner Messerle’s claim, endorsed by Mr. Parry, that the Solid Waste facility is losing $30 to $50k per month, can be attributed to a lack of action by the commission. The board have FINALLY admitted what I had been telling them for more than a year, the shortfall is due to the refusal of one commercial customer to abide by their contractual obligation.
Finally Mr. Parry’s assertion that laying off four Solid Waste employees will save the county money is 180 degrees off the mark. For more than 17 years the Solid Waste facility has been self funding, and while a budget is submitted every year, NO general fund monies have been needed to support the operation or it employees, that is until this layoff. For the first time since the facility was upgraded the county general fund will be responsible for covering the unemployment wages of the laid off workers.
The current situation with Solid Waste is just the latest example of missed opportunities and misguided decisions that seem to be the routine with this commission; whether deliberate or just misinformed. Correcting this type of mismanagement of county assets and services is one of the reasons I made the decision to run for commissioner.
My extensive accounting and budget experience, taught me to use a cost benefit approach to decision making and just as I have done here I will do the research, study the information, and make fact based decisions to best benefit all the citizens of Coos County.
We did, that’s why Sanne has many of our votes.
Thank you for noticing.
Just a guy that want’s to work for his wages, not a puppet of big money like old Fred. You boys are getting worried aren’t you? Good, I think this is just the beginning of the end of so much stagnation in this county. The Good Ol Boys that been running things want another chance, why? Forty years of being paid to stimulate the county’s business, and I’ve seen more ‘stimulation’ from a used Duracel.
I’m sorry all of you believe what Randy states. He’s totally wrong. You folks need to look into all of this yourself. You will find everything different than he states.
I had the same question about the emergency funds…I’ll try to find the info.
Fred Messerlie doesn’t march to SCDC’s orders Silly, he sleeps with SCDC.
And inserted the Mrs. right into SCDC, but the Messerles’ have been doing this for years, don’t forget, there are three of them sucking directly from the tax payers of this county through the Port and SCDC and FONSI and all the rest of the Koch Suckers in this county. And they won’t stop until they’ve taken what remains of public jobs in this county. They’re well on their way, imagine laying off a candidate for your position, and somehow thinking it’s okay. It’s not, take the money from every one of these corporate suckers.
Does anyone know where we can find date about who in Coos County has or is going to apply for the “storm emergency” declared recently? Want to make bets? Seriously, does anyone know where to find that info?
Ouch! Yes, of the five top finalists picked he was the only one I could support. Out of the 33 applicants he might have been fifth or sixth on my list. Now that I know he is just a promoter and just as devoid of critical thinking skills as the other four top picks… ugh
Dear Magix – I recall reading here that Mr. Parry had you fooled also. Wasn’t he the chosen one among the candidates for appointment? The scary one is Messerle who is clearly marching to the SCDC, not the people’s, agenda; who has gone slowly as he promised; and who is unable to manage other than by committee.
Main is 100% responsible for the appointment of Fred and Cam
They(BOC) like to play good cop, bad cop. Any doubt left about whether Main is one of them should not cloud anyone’s mind come election day. He and a few other friends of SCDC put these guys in there. He’s a shill like the other two, he just likes to go against the grain in public, or he’s the most incompetent person ever elected to the office. He’s one of them(SCDC), just pretending he’s not for appearances. Ever heard of CYOA.
I urge all the readers to watch the last BOC meeting, when the guys from solid waste reported to them. There was absolutely no doubt in my mind, and I heard exactly what THEY heard, the local crew could handle/fabricate the equipment in house. So what do they do? Shut the whole damn thing down and hire a corrupt “engineer” that they know ahead of time will give them exactly what they want.!
Done deal folks. Watch them.
But they got their orgasm going by laying off a worker who just happens to be running for a seat on the BOC . What amateurs. Shows their level of professionalism doesn’t it? And they sit there doing this right before the public that pays their wages, smirking like they pulled a fast one.
I pulled too many uncle’s fingers boys, I ain’t buying it.
Randy will be available to explain how the commissioners are misrepresenting budget and the shortfall at solid waste, as well as other questions, Monday at 6:30 PM at the Coquille Community Center. Mark McKelvey will also be there.
A CEO could guarantee mining and timber deals for those interests. Close, sell, or at least privatize the dump to waste connections, deal almost done for those interests. Stufflebean already started the privatization of all the county road work, to Knife River, deal almost done for that tax dollar resource. What else must they(SCDC) get done before the elections? There are plenty of candidates willing to carry the water for them(SCDC), if they should lose the current cast. SCDC has planned for these guys to leave, as long as their chosen replacements get those seats. Jon’s not going to put all his eggs on just one candidate per seat. Exposed as their(SCDC) plans are, they just keep moving forward. One hell of a network, he has built for bilking the tax payer. Wonder what his cut is for brokering all these deals.
That’s a very informative article. It explains what’s going on at the Solid Waste facility, but it leaves me wondering if the shutdown is due to misinformation or conspiracy.
Randy abilities are being underutilized. He’s smart, he knows what’s going on, and he’s not afraid to talk about it. He should be a County Commissioner.
It looks like our anti-government commissioners are also looking to privatize the road department.
I am shocked that the three Commissioners voted down one of the self-sustaining departments at the County. As Randy said, one that has been paying for itself for years. The failure on the part of the Commissioners to deal with one of the users of the dump suggests to me that that person/corporation etc. is one of the good old boys that both Cam and Fred is paying off. I know they have, for some reason, a great stake in the California company that wants to take over the dump.
I’m not an expert of this stuff but have followed this process for years. It’s interessting that they just happened to lay off the guy who is opposing two of them for the position of Commissioner.
Get ready to get raises in your garbage collection. The Commissioners are part of the 1% and don’t give a hoot about the rest of the citizens. My feeling is that we need to clean the slate and get some new blood on the Board.
What the heck, we probably won’t do worse. There is only one Commissioner that was elected. Both the appointed guys assured a large cvommittee of good old boys and girls that they could handle the job. Well, WE KNOW BETTER. Meanwhile they are in a hurry to change everything.
Think About it!!!
Aren’t the commissioners further wasting time and money by hiring an outside engineer to study the operation an to make recommendations. I read in yesterday’s on line World – well downtown Coos Bay – paper that Messerle close friend “Al” I saved Apple has already identified the cause of all problems and the cause of all monies being lost. Thanks Al.
How refreshing, a public figure who doesn’t have to blow smoke up our , well you understand. A working stiff who knows what he’s talking about, not whispering in that precious little whisper Cam uses. It’s disgusting, if you aren’t proud of what you are saying, and have to whisper, you better get out of the way.
Thank you Randy for your knowledge and your honesty. It’s not going to be easy, you have left our solid waste facility long enough to “wrestle with the pigs” on the BOC, well you have my vote, I’d rather spend time at Solid Waste than in the pig pen our BOC has become.
People are finally taking advantage of having some truthiness to read !