By Frank Mortimer
Town manager Kevin Paicos is moving forward with his plan to privatize Foxboro's tree and yard waste compost area and have the operation moved to the old Foxboro landfill property off East Belcher Road..
Joan Gallivan, who owns an office complex next to the current compost area on Elm Street, appreciates the move.
"We are pleased," Gallivan said Wednesday. "We have advocated that the whole operation be moved or be reduced in size. It has become a nuisance, both the sight and smell of it, as well as a safety issue."
She said highway superintendent Robert Swanson has done a good job. "He has been very cooperative in helping to monitor the present facility and now initiating to move it."
Although Paicos has yet to formally award the contract for the building and operation of a composting facility on the former town landfill property, Tree Tech Inc. of 6 Spring Brook Rd. came in with "by far" the lowest of four bids, Swanson said.
Paicos are Swanson are evaluating the details of the services each bidder is offering.
Under Tree Tech's proposal -- for which the town would pay the firm a token $1 per year -- the company would agreed not to charge residents any fee to use the compost area.
The new site will accept yard waste from commercial landscapers, for a fee.
The town will be allowed to dump yard waste and trees from town departments year-round.
The compost area will be built near but not on landfill cap. The facility, which will the company will staff, will be built near the scale building on the dump property.
If awarded the contract, Tree Tech would use part of the site to manage its "log byproduct operation," its bid states.
"This entails logs from our tree operations being sorted intoi quality lumber grade logs, tree length firewood or pulpwood," the bid says. "We have been doing this for 10 years and have been successful in getting each to market without accumulating excess, problem debris."
Founded in 1986, the company is owned by Foxboro resident Andy Felix.
Reporter staff member Ruth Jackson contributed to this story.
Joan Gallivan, who owns an office complex next to the current compost area on Elm Street, appreciates the move.
"We are pleased," Gallivan said Wednesday. "We have advocated that the whole operation be moved or be reduced in size. It has become a nuisance, both the sight and smell of it, as well as a safety issue."
She said highway superintendent Robert Swanson has done a good job. "He has been very cooperative in helping to monitor the present facility and now initiating to move it."
Although Paicos has yet to formally award the contract for the building and operation of a composting facility on the former town landfill property, Tree Tech Inc. of 6 Spring Brook Rd. came in with "by far" the lowest of four bids, Swanson said.
Paicos are Swanson are evaluating the details of the services each bidder is offering.
Under Tree Tech's proposal -- for which the town would pay the firm a token $1 per year -- the company would agreed not to charge residents any fee to use the compost area.
The new site will accept yard waste from commercial landscapers, for a fee.
The town will be allowed to dump yard waste and trees from town departments year-round.
The compost area will be built near but not on landfill cap. The facility, which will the company will staff, will be built near the scale building on the dump property.
If awarded the contract, Tree Tech would use part of the site to manage its "log byproduct operation," its bid states.
"This entails logs from our tree operations being sorted intoi quality lumber grade logs, tree length firewood or pulpwood," the bid says. "We have been doing this for 10 years and have been successful in getting each to market without accumulating excess, problem debris."
Founded in 1986, the company is owned by Foxboro resident Andy Felix.
Reporter staff member Ruth Jackson contributed to this story.
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