Mayor Brandon Scott’s Jones Falls Task Force will have 13 members – five representing different divisions of city government and eight representing community groups.

The mayor announced on Sept. 3 that he was forming the task force to recommend the best way for the city to handle bulk trash and hazardous waste disposal if the city closes the Sisson Street Sanitation Yard and Citizen Drop-Off Center at 2840 and 2842 Sisson St., a city-owned transfer station known by many as “The Dump.”

City officials announced in August that they have been working on a plan to move the transfer station to 2801 Falls Road, where the Potts and Callahan construction company has a storage yard that it would lease to the city. The public officials said the city has received a proposal to redevelop the Siss

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