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The Town of Chapel Hill's interest is, "To support the environmental sustainability of our community by actively pursuing the goal of 61% waste reduction and by reducing our carbon footprint by 50% by 2020. Criteria that could impact our operation are: - An increase in non-productive route time, driving to and from the route to the disposal site is a major consideration. We have conducted time and distance studies from the geographic center of Chapel Hill to distances of 10, 12, 15 and 20 miles away. These studies included Highway 54 West, 1-40 West and Highway 86 North. Beyond the 12-mile point, which adds 38 to 40 minutes round trip drive time depending on location, we would need to add another crew with equipment to continue the same level of service we currently provide. - An equipment change to a dual axle residential fleet. Currently, only two trucks are dual axle. Three more will be delivered to the Town due to the normal fleet replacement cycle this fall. That will leave fire rear loaders to be changed out at cost of approximately $700,000. - Fuel cost will increase if the site is other than the current site. The amount of increase would vary depending on the distance and time of travel. As an example of the impact of changing to a more remote hauling site, a time and distance study was conducted from various Chapel Hill locations to the Durham Transfer Station (DTS). Southern Village center to DTS. Miles: 20.3 Time: 28 minutes Meadowmont center to DTS. Miles: 17.6 Time: 26 minutes Parkside Neighborhood to DTS. Miles: 17.4 Time: 22 minutes Downtown Chapel Hill to DTS. Miles: 17.1 Time: 27 minutes DTS to Town Operations Center Miles: 20.6 Time: 27 minutes This would increase our travel time during the day to 1 hour. Transfer station wait time could approach 15 minutes. The additional time per route would compromise our ability to complete routes within a work day with additional resources. We would need to add 1 crew, with equipment to sustain our current task system. 1 Equipment Operator !! Salary and Benefits $43,800 2 Collectors Salary and Benefits $74,000 Total personnel costs $117,800 Additional rear-loader, fuel and maintenance $200,000 TOTAL $317,800 Fuel Projections: Estimated data on increased annual fuel cost from the DTS to the TOC for residential trucks only would increase $28,900 dollars. 14,996 miles (14 routes x 52 weeks x 20.6 miles) divided by 1.6 miles per gallon average rear loader multiplied by $3.08 which was the average 3rd quarter fuel cost for this FY. Estimated data on increased annual fuel cost only by all routes to DTS would increase $76,100.