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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 30, 2000 Action Agenda Item No. 4 SUBJECT: Solid Waste Facilities DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT(S): 8/24/00 Staff Memo 1 INFORMATION CONTACT: Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Management Director, 968 -2885 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732 -8181 Chapel Hill 968 -4501 Durham 688 -7331 Mebane 336- 227 -2031 PURPOSE: To discuss the current and future need for solid waste facilities to manage Orange County solid waste and recyclables, and to provide direction to staff on how to proceed. BACKGROUND: Orange County, primarily through the Landfill Owners Group, has been involved with facilities siting since at least 1989. With a few exceptions, these siting endeavors have proven quite challenging and have met with limited success. One conclusion emanating from the mixed solid waste (MSW) landfill site search process in the early to mid -1990s was that Orange County would not site a new MSW disposal facility in Orange County, but would utilize a transfer station to ship solid waste to an out -of- county disposal site. Arrangements for siting and operating a transfer station remain to be discussed. The attached staff memo recaps some of the most significant points from staff correspondence to the Board earlier this year regarding the potential siting of a number of solid waste facilities that the Board will need to address during this, and the next several, fiscal years. The Board may wish to consider the background information provided in the attached memo while discussing the topic of new solid waste facilities at this work session. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Solid waste facilities present two primary types of financial impacts — costs of acquisition /development and opportunities for fee revenues. Costs for acquisition and development vary with the specific facilities, with some facilities such as the transfer station and C &D landfill having been proposed to be financed primarily from the existing reserves in the Solid Waste /Landfill Operations Enterprise Fund. Operational revenues will be addressed by the Board as it considers the matter of solid waste alternative financing discussed elsewhere in the August 30 work session agenda materials.