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Solid Waste Task Force
Doug Lowry and Kelly Girtz, two ACC Commissioners will head up a task force that will recommend ways to encourage recycling, including a controversial proposal to take away residents' ability to choose who picks up their garbage. Among the task force's duties will be to decide whether the county should stop allowing residents of formerly unincorporated Clarke County to hire their choice of private trash haulers and instead choose one hauler for each of several zones, a policy known as exclusive franchising.
Davison has not appointed the rest of the task force, but said it would include a wide range of people representing schools, hospitals, apartments, restaurants and other businesses - groups that could be affected by changes to trash pickup. Davison said the task force may NOT include a representative from a private hauler. Lowry and Girtz has asked Davison to put both a residential and a commercial hauler on the task force.
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