There’s an interesting landfill debate raising a stink on the Forsyth/Stokes border. OK, it’s actually a demolition landfill, but you think landfill, you think garbage, you think smelly.
The problem is Winston-Salem’s City/County Utility Commission bought 119 acres of land in Stokes County for the landfill and didn’t tell anybody.
And we mean anybody:
Leon Inman, the chairman of the Stokes board of commissioners, said he was unaware of the purchase until officials in the Stokes Register of Deeds office told him about a week ago.
“I have to say I was surprised,” Inman said……
…Mayor Allen Joines said that there is enough oversight, although until last weekend, he didn’t know that the city owned property in Stokes County. Land bought by the commission must be put under the city’s name.
“My concern is to make this right,” Joines said.
How about this from Hugh Wright, chairman of the utility commission:
Wright said he did not know that a state law requires the utility commission to get consent from the Stokes commissioners before buying the land.”I’ll have to talk with our attorneys about that,” he said.
Talking to lawyers before crossing county lines is generally a good idea.
