Council undecided on extra funding for landfill

AUBURN - After rifling through nearly 80 pages of invoices and project summaries, city councilors were no closer to deciding whether to spend tens of thousands of extra dollars on a project to expand the landfill.

The council tabled a resolution during its meeting Tuesday that would have authorized a $60,000 change order for the expansion. This resolution was originally tabled last month, and it is not expected to come before council again until the first full week in January.

The change order is for the engineering costs associated with a project to add a new cell to the city landfill. The original contract stated that the city would pay the firm Barton & Loguidice no more than $486,000 for engineering services.