SEQUIM — Waste not, want not — and the Sequim City Council wants not to hook up with Port Angeles and Clallam County on a garbage transfer station.

Council members on Wednesday declined to join in with Port Angeles and Clallam County governments over the transfer station, from which garbage will be hauled off the Peninsula when the Port Angeles landfill is closed in 2006.

Questions over unforeseen costs and liability were troubling to the council members, who voted 5-1 to reject the 20-year interlocal proposal and instead pursue other avenues for future trash disposal.

Councilman Bill Huizinga said there were too many unknowns associated with the proposed agreement.

“It’s like signing a blank check,” Huizinga said.

“I’d have a difficult time signing this and then facing the taxpayers.”