Floyd County rural solid waste collection site hours will change next month

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com
Rural Floyd County residents will have more weekday hours to drop off waste at the county solid waste collection site near the fairgrounds, but fewer hours on Saturdays.
The Floyd County Board of Supervisors discussed a change in the hours at its regular meeting this week on Tuesday.
County Engineer Adam Miller, whose department includes management of the solid waste collection site, said the number of open hours will stay the same, but the site will open one hour earlier Tuesdays through Fridays, and close four hours earlier on Saturdays.
The new hours will be 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, effective on Tuesday, May 6, Miller said.
The hours had previously been 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.
Miller said he was making the change in deference to the employee who usually staffs the site.
“I have a hard time coming up with very many occupations that have a full day of Saturday as their normal working hours as part of their 40-hour work,” he said. “People that work Saturday all day usually they’re a rotating schedule. They get overtime for it. They get a weekend differential.
“I have a hard time coming up with 40-hour, or 37½ hours (the usual county work week) that have a whole day of Saturday as one of their normal working hours without some sort of additional compensation,” Miller said.
Supervisor Gloria Carr said that the longer Saturday hours had been started to give rural people who work during the week more time to get to the site.
“I think three hours on Saturday is a pretty short time. I think it is too short a time,” she said.
The agenda item was listed as noting the change, rather than a decision by the board, and Carr said, “I’m not in support of it, but if it’s not a board action item it’s irrelevant what any of us think.”
Supervisor Chair Dennis Keifer said he had heard from people who wanted the site to open earlier during the week, “so you can’t please everybody.”
Supervisor Boyd Campbell said, “We need to consider the employee. I think we’re asking a lot of her.”
County Auditor Morrigan Miller said it concerned her that more attention was maybe being placed on the employee than the constituents, noting the employee gets all day Mondays off.
Miller said they can review the change after it’s been in effect for a while to see its impact, but he said a lot of businesses close on Saturdays at noon.
“If it turns out that Saturday really is absolutely swamped and we need to adjust the hours again on Saturday I’m open to additional changes. For right now I’d like to try this and see how it works,” Miller said.
The hours had previously been changed two years ago, in May 2023, when
The collection site is for rural residents of the county who have a rural 911 address.
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