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,~ disproportionate impact on a community and that final site selection be based on an affirmative demonstration that it will not result in a disproportionate impact. We endorse this explicit recognition of environmental justice. We look forward to working with the BOCC to ensure that the goals are achieved. We plan to have representatives at the November 15th BOCC meeting, and we ask that we have an opportunity to speak briefly about the upcoming search process. Thank you again for your leadership in reconsidering the siting decision and in bringing environmental justice forward as an explicit goal in the WTS siting. Your recognition of the importance of this principle has established a precedent that can be applied across all parts of Orange County government. We are proud to be a part of a county whose leaders promote and whose citizens support such progressive principles. Robert Campbell and Neloa Jones Co-Chairs of the Rogers-Eubanks Coalition Neloa Jones also said that she hopes that the communities of the landfill will not be punished, so to speak, should the Board decide to exclude Eubanks Road as a possible site for the transfer station. She said that the Board created a task force earlier this year whose charge was to discuss ways to mitigate 35 years of negative solid waste impact in this community. She said that this has absolutely nothing to do with the transfer station. She hopes that the Board will carefully scrutinize the March 19th memo (page 10 of the abstract). She said that much of this memo misrepresents and inaccurately reports the processes and criteria that SWAB used when selecting Eubanks Road as the best site for the transfer station. She said that it is disappointing to see the same March 19th memo still included in the agenda material. She said that fraudulent or fabricated reports violate the integrity of the government and should not be tolerated. She said that the Historic Rogers Road Community does meet the fatal flaw type of criteria that is identified in Attachment A. These criteria would exclude Rogers Road from further consideration for a transfer station site. She says this especially in light of the recently ratified North Carolina 2007 Solid Waste Management Act that advocates not permitting solid waste facilities whose cumulative impact would have a disproportionate adverse impact on a minority or low-income community. She believes that the Rogers/Eubanks community meets these criteria. Jack Sanders (this portion was transcribed verbatim per the request of a County Commissioner): I am Jack Sanders, Chair of the Orange County Democratic Party, and I'm here to speak for the Democratic Party in support of the Rogers Road community. We thank Commissioner Mike Nelson for his early clear and public statement in support of the reconsideration of the siting of the waste transfer station. We thank Chairman Moses Carey for his leadership in bringing the matter forward at the November 5th Board meeting. And we thank the entire Board for its decision to reconsider the prior siting decision. I especially salute the Board for its public recognition that social and environmental justice should be factors in governmental decisions. The explicit recognition of principles that protect the well-being of all communities regardless of their economic status and political clout is an important commitment that serves the County well. I welcome the reconsideration of the waste transfer station siting, but I want to speak on further aspects of government as applied to the Rogers Road community. Orange County is blessed with excellent local governments, a progressive and engaged citizenry, a people of high ideals, among them the principles of social and environmental justice, and the notion of the integrity of government -the notion that our governments will treat all communities fairly and that the promises made will be kept. Justice