The Rossmoor Community Services District will ask the California Attorney General’s office for a legal opinion about the district’s authority to take legal action against the Joint Forces Training Base composting program.
The Rossmoor district board of directors voted on Tuesday, March 9 to authorize General Manger Henry Taboada to write a letter seeking an opinion from the state attorney general.
The composting project has been temporarily halted in the wake of protests from residents of Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Cypress and Garden Grove.
Most protests have stemmed from the smell coming from the compost. The project was intended to reduce “green waste” on the base and also generate income.
However, residents of Seal Beach’s College Park East objected to the increased truck traffic and potential safety problems the project would have created on Lampson Avenue.
Representatives of all five communities sent a letter to Secretary of the Army John McHugh in November 2009, asking him to revoke the contract between the Los Alamitos military base and the private vendor that provides the composting service to the base.
Cypress City Manager John Bahorski recently said the secretary had not replied to the letter yet.
Bahorski told the Sun Newspapers that a decision on the fate of the composting project in April at the earliest.
The RCSD staff report also said a decision about the composting project would probably come in mid-April, based on information provided to staff by Brigadier General Keith Jones, base commander.
The current California Attorney General is Edmund G. Brown Jr., also known as Jerry Brown.
