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Commissioner Carey asked about the two companies and if they had both done work for <br />Orange County before. Laura Blackmon said that both are on retainer with Orange County <br />already for other activities. Solid Waste Director Gayle Wilson said that Draper has been under <br />contract since 1995 and Olver is more recent -two or three years. <br />Chair Carey asked if there were any issues related to response time and Gayle Wilson <br />said no. <br />Laura Blackmon said that if either of these two firms were not acceptable, then the other <br />option was for the County to issue another RFP for other companies. <br />Olver, Incorporated Interview <br />Ed Shuffler and Bob Sallach were representing this firm. <br />Ed Shuffler said that one of the lessons he learned 30 years ago was that there must be <br />an honest and very forthright public information program. They are committed to set up purely <br />informational meetings to show the public all about a transfer station. He summarized the <br />PowerPoint presentation as shown below: <br />Overview: <br />- Founded in 1973, established in the Carolinas in 1994 <br />- Offices in Charlotte, Cary, Blacksburg, and Richmond <br />- Full-Service, multi-disciplined staff including Solid Waste and Water and Wastewater <br />- Experienced professionals providing municipal solid waste management services for more <br />than 30 years <br />General Understanding: <br />The desire of the Orange County Board of Commissioners is to identify and select a transfer <br />station site that is environmentally acceptable, feasible from an engineering and operation <br />perspective, and is acceptable to the public. <br />Siting Approach <br />- The development by the BOCC, along with staff input, of the exclusionary, technical and <br />community specific criteria for the selection of a site. <br />- The approval by BOCC of the site selection criteria. <br />- Site identification. Potential sites will be identified. <br />- Broad site screening. Sites will be screened according to general criteria (regulatory, <br />environmental, development or other situational factors), and a prioritized list of sites is <br />compiled. <br />- Focused site screening. Sites will be screened for site-specific criteria and then ranked. <br />The highest ranked sites proceed to comparative site evaluation. <br />- Comparative site evaluation. The highest ranked sites will be examined from <br />environmental, operational, and policy perspectives. Sites meeting these criteria are <br />ranked again, and the top three or four sites proceed to environmental review. <br />- Publishing of the site selection process and selection criteria in local newspapers and <br />making this information available to all local citizen groups in the vicinity of the final <br />candidate sites. <br />- Conduct candidate site public information meetings to identify major concerns of each <br />effected neighborhood. <br />- Documentation of comments and concerns raised at the public meetings along with <br />alternative methods of addressing these issues. <br />- Solicitation of comments from the Planning Commission. <br />- Conduct a public hearing before the BOCC to consider the recommended transfer station <br />site. <br />