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,~ for Rogers Road does not consist of merely not adding a further burden of the waste transfer station to that community. It must recognize that the Rogers Road neighborhood has lived with the landfill for 35 years, that elected officials have made promises and raised expectations time and again, but that there are now, in addition to the solid waste landfill, deconstruction and demolition landfill and solid waste convenience center, a hazardous waste drop-off point, a yard waste drop-off and mulch center, and a leaching pond. The purpose of the Historic Rogers Road Community Enhancement Plan Development and Monitoring Task Force is to allow residents to raise issues regarding quality of life in the community in order to address their concerns related to the long-term presence of solid waste facilities located in their community. In good faith, community residents have participated in preparing the list of development items, some of them basic public services such as water and sewer service. After 35 years of bearing the solid waste burden of the County, the Rogers Road community deserves those basic services and other development items. I want to be proud of our County; I want it to act according to its principles of social and environmental justice. Let us not circumscribe justice so that it means only that we forbear to burden the community more. Let us rather embrace the generous vision of justice that will enable us to redeem, finally, the promises made to the Rogers Road community. I urge you, the Board of County Commissioners, to exercise your leadership and your authority to do so. Thank you. Robert Campbell said that he believes that in order to start with a new process or criteria of siting a transfer station, that there must be a public statement that the Eubanks site is not on the list. He wants to start the process with a blank slate. He asked that the Eubanks Road site not be referred to at all. He said that Eubanks Road should not be a part of the process or conversation. Regarding the transfer station, he asked why Orange County would want to send its trash into someone else's backyard and contaminate their groundwater. He said that there are businesses in Orange County that do not recycle and he has pictures of furniture, white goods, and tires inside of dumpsters, which go to the landfill that is unchecked. He said that all of these elements must be addressed to make sure that Orange County is doing the best job of waste management in Orange County. He said that if a transfer station is located in Orange County, no resident should live within two miles of the facility. Ruby Sinreich thanked the County Commissioners for reopening the search. She said that she has been concerned about the issue of Rogers Road since she was in college and was studying environmental racism in the abstract sense. She said that the reason she has never come to speak about this before is because, with what she knows about the situation, she never thought that Orange County would actually site another thing on Eubanks Road; it was beyond her imagination. She said that it does not make sense to her ethically to continue looking at siting things here. She said that reopening the search is a step in the right direction. Randee Haven-O'Donnell said that she is the liaison to the Rogers Road Task Force. She applauded everyone who spoke before her. She thanked the Board of County Commissioners for reopening the search. She said that back in April she orchestrated a visit to the Greensboro transfer station and several of the County Commissioners attended. She said that there are three components of this problem. The first one is social justice and that a local community has had the burden of promises made and promises broken. After returning from the Greensboro site in April, people from the community got together and made very clear, specific recommendations about the things that the community needed, and things that were promised long ago. She strongly urged the Board to follow through with these recommendations regardless of what happens with the Eubanks site. The second problem is the environmental question. Back in 1989, she wrote a thesis on Garbology. She said that she knows about garbage, and the waste transfer site in Greensboro is a sterling example of a facility. She said that looking at the way Eubanks and Rogers Road is developing, she does not see that this space is the appropriate space to have a waste transfer facility. She said that