Winner has received a $500,000 solid waste management grant from the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The grant is to purchase an existing solid waste handling facility and equipment to include a walking floor trailer, used semi tractor, four roll off containers, a mini excavator to facilitate the loading of garbage within the facility and standardize solid waste containers for individual and commercial use.
Winner Mayor Jody Brozik said: “Great day for the residents of Winner, South Dakota. The DANR recognized the efforts, abilities, and vision of the Sanitation and Recycling enterprise of the city.
“I would like to congratulate Public Works Director Troy Kruger, Sanitation Foreman Travis Waters, Finance Officer Chandra Phillips, and the city council for all their work in a successful grant application. A lot of research and development has gone into this endeavor. This team stuck to our beliefs and were able to express the long term fruits to the committee. They believed in our vision and believe we will follow through on our plan. With the award they have entrusted us with moving forward responsibly and we thank them for this trust.”
The mayor added: “Although the immediate funds will be useful and impactful, I am excited to see how operationally this will blossom into more sustaining long term results for the residents of the City of Winner. When we took over this project, it was the belief of this administration and council we could hold our collection rates for up to four years. We have sustained two years of status quo and should easily see the ability to sustain our current rates for another two years plus.”
The Winner grant was one of several grants and loans for drinking water, wastewater, storm water and solid waste projects in South Dakota. All the grants totaled $172,554,815.
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