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i ~~ <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 17,1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9-C <br />SUBJECT: Solid Waste Management Interlocal Agreement <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENTS(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />As noted in "Background" John Link or Rod Visser, ext. 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4601 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider approval of an Interlocal agreement between the County and the Towns of <br />Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough that would govern the future structure of solid waste <br />management in Orange County. <br />BACKGROUND: During a number of meetings of individual governing boards in June 1999, <br />significant progress was made in finalizing the language of a proposed solid waste management <br />Interlocal agreement that has been under development by the County and Towns for the past several <br />years. In July 2 (Attachment 1) and July 7 (Attachment 2) letters, the Chair conveyed to the Towns <br />the County Commissioners' views about several outstanding points which could not be concluded <br />prior to all the governing boards taking their summer recesses. The blacklined version of the June 30 <br />document, which gives all the changes made, including those in the July 2 and July 7 letters, is <br />provided at Attachment 3. Mayor Waldorf responded with a July 13 letter (Attachment 4) on behalf of <br />the Chapel Hill Town Council,.-indicating that the County's position was acceptable to the Town <br />Council, but requesting that the Board of Commissioners consider three points of specific concern to <br />the Town Council. <br />Chair Gordon and Mayor Waldorf sent a joint memorandum (Attachment 5) to all members of the <br />county and municipal governing boards on July 16, 1999. This memo indicated the preparedness of <br />the County and Chapel Hill to sign the Interlocal agreement in August, after considering the following <br />three points raised by Chapel Hill in Mayor Waldorfs July 13 letter: <br />1) language tying deed restrictions that would be placed on the use of the Greene Tract to the <br />approval by the Town Council of zoning changes that would make permissible contemplated solid <br />waste uses other than burial. The specific language suggested by the Town reads: <br />