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Orange Regional <br />Material Recovery Facility <br />LOG Working Session Presentation <br />Introduction <br />Development efforts for a "materials recovery facility" have been initiated by communities in and around <br />Orange County, North Carolina in order to achieve higher levels of landfill diversion. <br />As part of this MRF procurement project, the Town of Chapel Hill contracted with a consulting team, <br />Resource Recycling Systems, Inc. (RRSI). Two informational meetings have been held to date. Additional <br />work is needed to further explore certain key issues and decisions that will need to be made by local <br />elected officials. At the last meeting requests were made by elected officials for more information about <br />facility size (including a "do it yourself" scenario), a cost comparison of the current system versus one with <br />a new MRF, and pros /cons of various public/private partnership models for MRF development. <br />The following material responds to these informational requests and is intended to focus the attention of <br />decision makers on four key areas in the development of the MRF Project with a goal of making sure that <br />elected officials develop an understanding and are able to formulate some conclusions with regard to <br />these key issues and decisions necessary for MRF development. <br />These four key issues covered in this material are: <br />• Size of MRF to target for development; <br />• Comparison of current versus future system costs if MRF is developed; <br />• MRF site and its important role in the development process; and <br />• The public/private partnership model to use as basis for MRF Development. <br />This LOG Working Session can be an important part of the process of local elected officials moving <br />towards preliminary conclusions regarding a number of key issues in the development of an Orange <br />Regional MRF. <br />All of this effort is intended to result in a high quality RFP that would be released to MRF developers. <br />There are some aspects of these decisions that can be left unresolved in an RFP and then addressed in <br />the process of analyzing vendor proposals. For example, vendors could be asked to provide an alternate <br />bid for processing Orange community recyclables at an existing recycling facility. This could then be <br />compared to the base bids that would also be supplied. Many preliminary decisions still have to be made <br />prior to release of an RFP in order to get quality proposals from vendors. <br />2/5/99 Orange Regional MRF LOG Workshop Materials <br />