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Cabell officials consider tax to support recycling

Herald-Dispatch photo by Sholten Singer Chris Lopez of Milton drops of his recycling on Saturday, July 23, 2016, at a designated recycling area in the parking lot of Kroger in Huntington.
Herald-Dispatch photo by Sholten Singer
Chris Lopez of Milton drops of his recycling on Saturday, July 23, 2016, at a designated recycling area in the parking lot of Kroger in Huntington.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The loss of funding for the Cabell County Solid Waste Authority’s recycling program might seem like the beginning of the program’s end to some, but for the authority’s board members, it has set the stage for a new beginning altogether if county taxpayers agree.

Members of the authority plan to ask the Cabell County Commission to allow county voters to decide in a referendum in the Nov. 8 general election whether they want to establish a levy to sustain and possibly expand the recycling program.

Authority Board President Stephen Zoeller and board member Tom Bell talked about the state of the county’s recycling program and how the levy proposal would ensure the program’s future during a meeting with The Herald-Dispatch Editorial Board…

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