The Rutherford County Solid Waste/Advisory Steering Council will meet at 5 p.m. today (Feb. 27) in the County Commission chamber. They will meet in the Rutherford County Commission chamber, on the second floor of the County Courthouse, One Public Square, Murfreesboro. The public is invited to attend. 

They will focus on specific options for solid waste – how to handle it and how to manage the process – as the current system approaches capacity.

Currently, Rutherford County taxpayers have free use of the Middle Point landfill – worth at least $4 million annually – and the county receives approximately $900,000 a year from other counties that use Middle Point. Any solution will bring increased costs.

The committee includes representatives from Rutherford County government as well as the cities of Murfreesboro, Smyrna, LaVergne, and Eagleville.

For more information on this and other developments about the issue of Rutherford County’s solid waste future, visit RenewalRutherford.com.

Members of the advisory committee include:

Rutherford County

• Mayor Burgess
• Mike Kusch, County Commissioner
• Lynnisse Roehrich-Patrick, former Executive Director of TACIR
• Dr. Kathy Mathis, associate professor, MTSU
• Merry Hickerson, County Highway Department coordinator

Murfreesboro

• Mayor McFarland
• Kirt Wade, City Council Member
• Paul Latture, Chamber of Commerce
• Joe Whitefield, Vice President for Facilities, MTSU

LaVergne

• Kyle Brown, Assistant City Administrator
• Garlon Russell, Public Works Manager

Smyrna

• Harry Gill, Town Manager
• H.G. Cole, City Council Member

Eagleville

• Travis Brown, City Mayor

The upcoming meeting of the solid waste advisory committee will be held from 5-9 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Rutherford County Commission chamber, on the second floor of the County Courthouse, One Public Square, Murfreesboro. The public is invited to attend. The meeting will be streamed on local community access television.