Transfer station forms at Town Hall

SALISBURY — It’s time to buy new stickers for the transfer station. Each household in  Salisbury is required to buy a  transfer station sticker each year, whether they use a garbage hauler or take their trash to the station themselves. This year, the stickers are $70.

Unpaid transfer station stickers have been a problem for years. A letter from First Selectman Curtis Rand is scheduled to go out shortly, reminding all residents, renters and businesses to buy their stickers. (The same letter is being sent to residents of Sharon, with whom Salisbury shares the transfer station.)

At last week’s meeting of the Board of Selectmen,  Rand said that the town was working with the haulers who pick up trash at apartment buildings to reduce the number of unpaid transfer station stickers.

Rand said in a phone interview Monday, June 14, that the town, working from the emergency services list of residents, and the haulers, working from their lists of customers, are “making progress.� He estimated the number of unpaid stickers from last year at 500, which at $70 per sticker represents $35,000 in revenue for the transfer station.

Getting an accurate idea of who has and hasn’t paid up isn’t as straightforward as one might think. Rand said he noticed on the latest list he saw that some people whose names were included had died. Others had moved, or had only been renting in town for a matter of months.

Landlords, particularly those with apartment buildings, are not universally aware of the requirement either.

Charlie Kelley, chairman of the Salisbury-Sharon Transfer Station Recycling and Advisory Committee, said at a meeting earlier this year that in the fiscal year 2008-09, there were 686 unpaid transfer station stickers between the two towns, which at the then-$60 sticker fee represented $41,160 in uncollected revenue.

And in this fiscal year (2009-10), as of Jan. 16, there were 873 unpaid stickers — 561 from Salisbury and 312 from Sharon. At the current $70 fee, that adds up to $61,110.

The stickers went on sale at Town Hall in the downstairs conference room on Monday, June 14. This special office will remain open for six weeks; after that, stickers can be applied for in the office of the selectmen.

Applicants must bring the license plate number for any vehicle that they want a sticker for and a check or cash.

The sticker is $70 for the first vehicle and $40 for each additional vehicle.

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