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Recycling Manager Resigns

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By JULIA FERRANTE, The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 16, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - As Pasco County officials plan to expand recycling in the county, the program coordinator has resigned.

Rachel Surrency left her position last week to become a science teacher at Hudson High School.
County Administrator John Gallagher has authorized officials to fill the recycling coordinator position despite a partial hiring freeze and impending cuts. The salary range is $37,675 to $64,145. Candidates must have a four-year degree and two years of related experience, Personnel Director Barbara De Simone said.

County officials have been contemplating a franchise system to expand recycling. The new system would divide the county into four territories, each to be served by one trash hauler. Pasco currently has about nine haulers.

County Commissioner Michael Cox said at a recent public meeting that some of the smaller companies have complained that a franchise system would put them out of business.

Many recycling advocates have said residents would recycle more if provided with hard-sided bins rather than blue bags, which they have to buy from retailers. Officials now are considering having all trash haulers take responsibility for recycling.

Some residents have complained that haulers do not pick up recyclables even when they place blue bags at the curb, and the recyclables get mixed with trash.

Officials plan to meet with haulers to rework the plan.

Surrency, 31, joined Pasco County in January 2001 after working as a school recycling specialist in Concord, N.H., according to personnel records. She has a 1999 bachelor of science degree from Keene State College in New Hampshire. Her salary was $43,744.

Reporter Julia Ferrante can be reached at (813) 948-4220 or jferrante

@tampatrib.com.

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