County to add office building at landfill

Whitman County commissioners passed a resolution Sept. 4 to establish the project for a 1,100 to 1,200 square foot building to go up at the waste transfer station to house space for two offices, a training room, break room, restrooms and small storage space.

Training now takes place in Colfax at the Public Works building or elsewhere. The two new offices will be for David Nails, solid waste and recycling director, and Craig Sines, foreman.

Nails’ office is now in the former hazardous waste facility. Sines does not currently have an office.

“Our facilities right now are sorely substandard,” sai...