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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 14, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 2 <br />SUBJECT: Solid Waste Matters <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Personnel /Public PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />Works <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1 -CH Solid Waste Dept Organization Chart <br />2 -CH Solid Waste Position List <br />3 - Employee Transition from CH to OC <br />Employment <br />4 - 2/20/98 BOCC Chair Letter to Mayors <br />5 - 3/30/98 Carrboro Mayor Letter <br />6 - 4/3/98 Chapel Hill Mayor Letter <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/N) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300; Elaine Holmes, ext 2550; <br />Wilbert McAdoo, ext 2625 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss matters related to the possible assumption by Orange County of overall <br />responsibility for the management of solid waste (excluding collection) throughout the County; and <br />to discuss responses from municipal governing boards to the Board of Commissioners' views and <br />questions about proposed community benefits for the neighborhoods in the vicinity of the Eubanks <br />Road landfill. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Solid Waste Management - Governance Issues <br />One of the major issues facing the local governments in Orange County is deciding a governance <br />structure for the future management of solid waste. One scenario is that the County assume overall <br />solid waste management responsibility. The Board may wish to discuss further at this work session <br />some of the parameters under which the County would be willing to assume that responsibility. A <br />framework for such discussion is suggested below: <br />A. Financing of Solid Waste Operations <br />The Board may wish to discuss, and confirm or amend, a number of assumptions and <br />suggestions that have been made regarding the financing of future solid waste operations: <br />Each local government will maintain responsibility for the operation and financing of solid <br />waste collection within its own jurisdiction <br />