The first meeting of Mayor Brandon Scott’s 13-member Jones Falls Task Force will be Oct 20.

Community leaders say they have been given the date but don’t know whether the meeting will be in person or virtual.

Scott announced in September 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 Street, a city-owned transfer station known by many as “The Dump.”

Public officials say they’re exploring plans to move the Sisson Street transfer station because the city has received a proposal to redevelop that property for commercial use if the transfer station can be relocated.

The potential relocation site that they sugge

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