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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 1, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. C~~_ <br />SUBJECT: 1999-2000 Landfill Fund Budget Approval <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Public Works PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/1~ No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1999-2000 Landfill Fund Budget Summary <br />5/18/99 BOCC Q&A <br />Proposed Resolution <br />Chapel Hill Solid Waste Dept Budget Request <br />(distributed with 5/18/99 agenda) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300; Wilbert McAdoo, ext <br />2625; Gayle Wilson, 968-2800 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill ~ 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To approve the proposed budget for the Landfill Enterprise Fund for fiscal yeaz 1999-2000. <br />BACKGROUND: At their May 18 meeting, the Boazd held preliminary discussions about the 1999- <br />2000 Landfill Fund budget. Under the County's current proposal to assume overall solid waste <br />management responsibility, the Board of Commissioners is slated to approve this budget, which is <br />currently administered by the Town of Chapel Hill. The Landfill Owners' Group met on May 6 and <br />considered the proposed budget. The LOG voted unanimously to support the 1999-2000 budget as <br />presented (without any of the potential program/service additions), with the stipulation that funding for <br />the landfill community benefits be addressed during 1999-2000 budget deliberations. <br />County Public Works staff and Chapel Hill. Solid Waste Department staff have collaborated to prepare the <br />attached summary of the major elements of the proposed 1999-20001andfi11 fund budget. Solid Waste <br />Director Gayle Wilson has also prepared written responses (see pages 20-22) to various questions raised <br />by the Board during the May 18 meeting. Pursuant to staff analysis of the budget and Boazd comments <br />and questions, we recommend that the Board consider the following points: <br />1) The 1999-20001andfill budget should be increased by $40,000, using landfill reserves (fund balance) <br />to cover the anticipated costs of landfill transition activities, as it now appears virtually certain that the <br />transfer of responsibility for solid waste management will take glace sometime during 1999-2000 <br />2) Adequate funds are available in landfill reserves to purchase and develop a new C&.D disposal site, <br />which is particulazly urgent because of the looming exhaustion of capacity at the current C&D landfill <br />3) Consideration should be given to establishing a reserve earmazked for the completion of remaining <br />landfill community benefits. While the exact scope and timing of these benefits will need to be <br />determined after the Landfill Benefits Committee issues its report, we believe it is likely that some <br />