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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 14, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 2 <br />SUBJECT: Solid Waste Matters <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />9/7/99 Carrboro Resolution John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />12/30/98 Report from Alternative Finance <br />Committee TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 336- 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss the status of the Solid Waste Management Interlocal Agreement and <br />the Construction and Demolition (C &D) Landfill Site Search process. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Solid Waste Interlocal Agreement <br />It appears that the County and its municipal partners are now very close to consummating an <br />interlocal agreement intended to govern the organization and structure of future solid waste <br />management throughout Orange County. The BOCC approved the agreement at their August <br />17 meeting, and adopted a resolution at their August 31 work session intended to reassure the <br />Carrboro Board of Aldermen of the County's commitment to several points important to <br />Carrboro. <br />It appears that the Board of County Commissioners and the Chapel Hill Town Council are now <br />essentially in tandem on this agreement. At their meeting on September 7, the Carrboro Board <br />of Aldermen adopted a resolution, also approving the interlocal agreement as approved by the <br />BOCC, with one exception. Carrboro wants the final interlocal agreement to reflect language <br />requiring approval by two towns, in addition to the County, for creation of /increases in certain <br />categories of solid waste fees. <br />Regardless of whether approval of "governmental" and "other" fees requires one or two towns in <br />addition to the County, those fees will be what drive the ability of the County and its municipal <br />partners to implement the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan ( ISWMP). The level of <br />service to be provided for recycling, etc will be dictated by revenue available from these fees. If <br />the parties to the agreement are unwilling to create and /or change fees needed to produce the <br />revenue needed to pay for solid waste reduction strategies, then services /goals contemplated in <br />the ISWMP may have to be modified. As noted in the "Conclusions" section of the December <br />