Residents turn out to see Gov. Reeves sign landfill bill in Ridgeland

Residents turn out to see Gov. Reeves sign landfill bill in Ridgeland

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RIDGELAND- Years of tough fighting by local and state officials with corporate garbage interests came to an end Wednesday with a bill signed by Gov. Tate Reeves at City Hall.

Upon signing the bill surrounded by dozens of the bill’s proponents in the city board room he congratulated local officials on working “very, very hard” to get House Bill 949 passed.

“It is supposed to be hard to pass the laws that govern us so that every idea does not become law,” Reeves said.

Reeves added that the bill gives people a voice.

The Mississippi House of Representatives took the final legislative step last week approving a measure 107-3 to concur with the State Senate on House Bill 949 giving voters the say in whether a third landfill can be built in Madison County and other counties that already have two landfills.

State Rep. Jill Ford welcomed Reeves and others to Ridgeland. She thanked NCL, the company looking to bring the landfill, for providing a “villain” that brought the bipartisan effort together and drove them to prayer.

“Prayer opened doors,” Ford said.

Ford said that during the process of passing this bill she picked up a nickname she could not repeat and learned that she loved to fight.

She specifically noted that city aldermen and Alderman-at-large D.I. Smith specifically were determined organizing forces in getting the bill passed.






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