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60 <br />Prospective Add-List Item for Solid Waste Department Budget <br />Fiscal Year 1999-2000 <br />1. Construction of an additional recvcling site at the Southern Village Development. <br />There is currently no recycling site in the southern part of Carrboro/Chapel Hill. This site would serve not only the <br />residents of the Southern Village development and southern Orange County, but. also act a replacement site for the <br />site lost from Culbreth Middle School. Costs include: <br />• Site design and development: $45,000; <br />• Dumpsters for cardboazd and mixed paper collection (10 @$650): $6,500; <br />• Rolloffcontainers for newspapers, magazine, container collection 3 @$5,000: $15,000; <br />• Collection costs are only a marginal addition to in-house personnel, equipment and operations costs at $5,600 for <br />hauling containers, cazdboard and mixed paper. News and magazines are hauled by contractors in rolloffs; <br />• Reirnbursement for Park Bond: $22,000. <br />Total cost for first year: $94,100 <br />Cost per Ton in Tipping Fee to Implement: $1.07 <br />Revenues: Newspaper: 5175 + Cardboard: SZ25 = 5400 (cover 3 months of fast year} _ <br />Tons recycled: assuming site complete April 2000 (equal average tonnage S~om ezisting ten sites): 60 <br />];zest year cost per ton: $1,568 (all construction costs and revenues included in fast year cost per ton) <br />Second year cost for collection and site maintenance: $6,200 <br />Revenge: ($1,600) <br />Tons recycled: 240 <br />~' Cost per ton: S19 <br />2. Eanansion of unincorporated rural curbside recycling effort $29.200 per 1.000 households. <br />Based on estimated costs for unincorporated curbside under a new bid. Itemized cost per 1,000 households per year <br />would be: <br />• Collection costs =$20,200 ` <br />• Outreach and education costs (a3 $1.00 per household = $10,000. <br />• New collection bins (a3 $8.00 per wait = $8,000. <br />Expected tonnage per 1,000 households, based on current generation rates: 95. First year cost per ton = $307 <br />including full cost of bins. Every month, households not receiving collections in the unincorporated areas of the- <br />county call to express interest in being on the curbside program. Many who called claim to represent their whole <br />street or subdivision Therefore we believe that there is demand for an addition of 1,000 homes. <br />Total first year cost: 538,200 <br />Cost per Ton in Tipping Fee to Implement: 50.43 <br />Tons recycled: 95 <br />Cost per ton in first year, including bins: $307 <br />Second year cost: SZZ,000 <br />Tons recycled: 95 <br />Second year cost per ton: S23Z <br />~~ <br />