Basically, the unwritten policy allowed the county's grindings to be given away to anyone who wanted them and who lived or had property within a reasonable distance of the county job where the grindings were being generated. The county maintains 500 miles of roads and has three highway garages. Often a road repaving project is not near a piece of county or town property where the millings could be stockpiled for future use. Morey said the long-standing unwritten policy was to let anyone who wanted the millings and who was close by the repaving project to have them free of charge. Now the county has a written policy that still allows the supervisors to make some discretionary decisions about road millings, but for the most part, the decisions will now fall to Morey.
Selection is based upon requests closest to job sites.
Loads are to be dumped on the premises only and not leveled off. Just prior to approving the new policy, the committee pondered a request from County Route 4 resident Jack Woods, the retired City of Oswego Animal Control Officer. We don't have a lot of projects out on those rural roads, but if we have a project nearby, I have no problem with it. He asked the committee to table the request until after they had reviewed and possibly adopted the new policy.