Landfill board gets second chance at SLIB grant

The Upper Platte Valley Solid Waste District (Landfill Board) may get help with converting the landfill to a transfer station.

Randy Raymer said there is a movement to remove GAAP (General Accepted Accounting Priniciples) requirement tied with applying for a SLIB (State Land Investment Boards) grant. One of the reasons the Landfill Board was denied the grant in May was because they did not use GAAP accounting.

Even if the movement goes forward, it would take a year before the landfill board could be approved for a SLIB grant to transfer station.

However, the Department of Environmental Quality...