The Haines Borough’s Solid Waste Working Group last week balked at taking a position on the municipality regulating rates charged by Community Waste Solutions, the company that will soon be the valley’s only trash handler.

The Solid Waste Working Group briefly discussed a letter from the Regulatory Commission of Alaska at its Feb. 16 meeting that asked for assembly input on future regulation of Haines Sanitation, the umbrella corporation above Community Waste Solutions.

Although the…