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The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol. 103 -. No. 71 © Copyright 1996, PreM-Republic«n Plqttsbufgh, NY 1 ?9Q1, Tuesday, daj|er 31,1995 Suggested Price: 50 5 20 Pages r Essex selling its landfill site for $5 million ByLOHRMcKINSTRY Staff Writer Southtni Et HX Buraau ELIZABETHTOWN - The Essex County Regional Landfill is about to be sold for $5 million and a guaranteed trash fee of $35 a ton. ' • . '. , The Essex County Board of Supervisors Monday approved the sale of the landfill, located in the Town of Lewis, to the Serkil firm of Castleton. The sale is subject to a final vote in November. The board has debated for months what to do with the money-losing landfill and had in- vited ' proposals from several solid-waste management firms. Serkil's proposal was the best, county Public Works Committee Chairman John Kelly, R- Schroon, said. \The Serkil group is in 100 percent overdrive to get this deal consummated,\ Kelly said. \Most members of the board are com- fortable with Serkil's proposal, which is a $35 tipping fee and they handle transportation.\ He said Serkil has also agreed to miintmlti ail town trSsh trans- fer station's and'pay the county a $1.50 a ton host fee. Serkil will pay $5,025,000 in cash, to go into a fund to pay off the municipal bonds that financed the landfill. \The cash we receive must be put into a mandatory reserve fund,\ County Attorney Richard Meyer said; \It cannot be spent for any other purpose. The tipp- ing fees can be put into that fund,\ \My personal preference is to make sure that they are,\ Kelly said. \I'm afraid of a raid\ by a future Board of Supervisors. Serkil Vice President for Sales James McGuire said his company would .guarantee the $35 a ton dump fee for Essex County trash for as long as it operates the landfill. \We modified our proposal to suit your needs,\ he told super- visors. \It may be realistic that we could be operational by Jan. 1. That's pretty optimistic.\ Serkil Vice President for Con- struction William Deininger said the firm has already scheduled a meeting with the state Depart- TERMS OF THE SALE • $5 million In cash • $35 a ion dumping, fee charged for county wwi • $1 50 a ton hoet tee, paid to the county and Lewis • 50 percent of recyclable* revenue paid to county • Town transfer station* con- tinued In operation by Serkil • Transportation from transfer station! to landfill provided by Serkil • Performance bond potted by Serkil • All coin taxes on equip- ment and supplies paid by Serkil ment of Environmental Conser- vation on the Essex County land- fill for Nov. 12. Because the Serkil use would bring in out-oficpurity garbage and increase the landfilL usage by more than 50 percent; a change in the/ DEC permit must b e •/sottJwifeiUx^J^;.'''.''.i\.''iV !<\VH-AW'\?;'-- 1 ; landfill dperactjpt'toj Set -up £; an escrow fund for landfill closure. \ \l||?^6|^^alfe^jthe% ping fe^ ajftd i^s; prorated i exposure the landfill 'has to the' environment,\ Deininger said. \The life of the.landfill could be 80 years;\ \I think $35 a ton will be a welcome relief to our constituen- cy,\ Supervisoi? Thomas Scoz- zafaya, R-Moriah* said. \It will also cut down on roadside gar- bage.\ The board recently cut the dump fee from $144.50 to $75 a ton in an effort td Ifeeep North Elba from taking 1 its trash to the incineration plant in Hudson Falls. ..-,.,. , .Supervisor P&niel Palmer, D-Minerva,, mbved to sell the landfill to Serkil and the.motion passed with only supervisors Nona Duntley,; R-Eewis, and A 11 e n'i) J.c k# r s o n , R- Elizabethtown, voting no. . Supervisor Donald Mclntyre, R-Westport, abstained, saying he Continued Page 10 P-R election hUfa^om^W^SJ,' tbm i countjee end «loolt* Take* look at-Kk«tteB WEATHER Tbddyi. lik# j the= l 10 p percent* . Mixed.[fain Orjd snow h flftetndbni JjSgh in |itH%jsf ; vpd : 5 to, ef precipjftition 60 •Kili-A^k^Msd^ Business News 9 Ann Landers , 8 Classified 16-20 Health 6,7 Comics., .8 Public Record 16 Editorial 4 Sports „ 12-15 Horoscope 8 Weather , 5 N.Y. Lottery: 469. Tick 4': 2903. Pick 10: 3,4,«, 13,16,18,21,22) 34,37,42,45,47,53, 58,59,63,64,68,78. N.w England: Tick 3': 062, Pick 4 1 :3386. , 1 ' AP Photo A pro-vote rally in Toronto brought out separatists and federalists, some waving Quebec flags arid others with Canadian flags. e e Quebi may help local economy ly MITCH ROSENQUIST Staff Writ«r i PLATTSBURGH — Quebeckers nar- rowly voted to remain part of Canada, but it may be enough to bring some benefit for the North Country. As the No side to separating creeped up a majority vote Monday, local business owners, economists and professors of Ca- nadian studies were gathered at Platt- sburgh State University College discussing the possible fallout. Dr. Richard Beach, director of PSUC's Center for Canadian Studies, said the close vdie Would cause some uncertainty throughout Quebec and the country, but the No Vote would likely strengthen the Canadian dollar. \A rise in the value of the dollar means that will be good for the retail business and tourism,\ Beach said. The short-term impact of the narrow vote 1 will depend largely on how the Cana- dian dollar does on the international ex- changes this, morning ,and in the coming days.v i \ But William Owens, a local attorney who represents close to 150 Canadian businesses, said, retail isn't the only factor locally ihat could be impacted. \Banks have been getting a lot of deposits lately,\ Owens said, because Ca- nadian corporations have been transfer- ring their cash across the border. And if political uncertainty in Canada turns into long-term fluctuations of the Canadian dollar, businesses may opt to move to the U.S. in search of a more stable Continued Pa^e 10 Quebec vote Facts about Monday's referendum: VOTERS '•About 5 million of Quebec's 7.3 million are eligible to vote. French.speakers make ,. up 82 percent of the electorate. QUESTION Asked voters if they want Quebec to become sovereign, coupled with an offer to negotiate a new economic and political partnership between panada and an indeperider/ ' IMPACT If separatists lose, they say they may try. again. If they win easily, federal government probably will have no choice but to negotiate separation. If separatists win narrowly, federal goyerntftefit fnight lodge a legal challenge or seek a second referendum, either Canada^wide or in Quebec. Federalists claim hairline victory in referendum vote By DAVID CRARY Associated Press Writer MONTREAL (AP) - By a perilously narrow margin, Quebeckers heeded pleas for national unity and voted against seces- sion Monday, sparing Canada a traumatic - fracture but leaving the French-speaking province split down the middle. With more than 99 percent of the 22,400 polling stations reporting, the federalists, with 2,339,414 votes, led by 50.5 percent to 2,294,145 votes, or 49.5 percent, for the separatists. Federalists celebrated raucously at, their headquarters, while separatists — who came closer than many had dreamed a few months ago — wept. But Quebec's separatists, who lost a 1980 independence referendum by a 60-40 margin, improved their performance so dramatically this time that they are sure to shake off their disappointment and launch another try. \Canada on paper may still be a country — but there's something wrong with this country,\ said Louise Beaudoin, culture minister in Quebec's separatist governme- nt. \We had 9 percent more than we had in 1980. Something has to be done.\ About 82 percent of Quebeckers are French-speaking, and roughly 60 percent of them voted for separation. As expected, roughly 90 percent of English-speaking and immigrant Quebeckers voted No. The vote will leave scars in Quebec. But it will hearten the throngs of Canadians from other provinces who joined marches, rallies and vigils last week beseeching Quebec to stay. A separatist victory would have spelled economic turmoil for Canada — and perhaps the greatest political crisis of its history. The nation would have lost one- fourth of its people and one-sixth of its land, a fracture without precedent among prosperous Western democracies. The narrow federalist victory will leave Quebec bitterly divided, with defeated na- tionalists likely to seek scapegoats and plot a future campaign to achieve a sovereign, French-speaking nation. The turnout, after a passionate cam- paign, was exceptionally large: 92 percent of the roughly 5 million registered voters. In Verdun, a working-class suburb of Montreal, unemployed Bertrand Fontaine, 48, explained his Yes vote. \I worked 18 years for a company, and now I've been unemployed for two years,\ he said. \That's enough. Maybe with new companies here, I'd have new chances. I have nothing to lose.\ Annette Dupuis, 83, said she was proud to cast a No vote in the Montreal suburb of Anjou. \My country is Canada,\ she said. \This is very important to me. If the Yes vote wins... I will shed tears. It will be the death of Canada.\ Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a Quebecker committed to keeping Canada intact, voted in his hometown of Shawinigan, but offered no predictions. The separatists' most charismatic voice, parliamentary opposition leader Lucien Bouchard, said Quebeckers should take pride in the campaign — one of the few times in world history where citizens were offered a vote on whether to secede. \We demonstrated in Quebec that we are a democracy — that we can talk to each other,\ Bouchard said. The separatists trailed early in the cam- paign, which started in September. They pulled into a narrow lead in opinion polls after Bouchard, who lost a leg to a near- fatal disease last year, took charge of the campaign and galvanized supporters with emotional speeches. The federalists steadied themselves in the closing week with rallies across Canada that expressed support for Quebeckers and national unity. By the end, pollsters said the race was a dead heat, and they were right. They had giveif an edge to the separatists among decided voters but suggested a majority of the undecided voters could tilt toward staying in Canada. \I'm hopeful for the No,\ Elizabeth Stewart said after voting * in a largely anglophone Montreal neighborhood. \I have a lot of relatives who are French- speaking and are on the No side — they just don't say it in public.\
