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The Solid Waste Management Director heads the department and reports to the Assistant Town Manager. Staffing • Attachment 2 lists the current Town of Chapel Hill Solid Waste positions. For each of the 26 permanent positions and two temporary positions, it shows the approximate percentage of time each position spends in the major functional areas of landfill, recycling, administration and planning for future needs. Upon the Solid Waste Department becoming an Orange County organization, each of the current employees, both permanent and temporary, would become an Orange County employee. At the time of this transition, the functions of the Solid Waste Department would continue as presently structured and the employees' duties and responsibilities would continue as presently assigned. The Personnel Department has on hand position descriptions for each Solid Waste position, which are available for review by Commissioners upon request. • If the County Solid Waste functions should change in the future such as through implementation of a transfer station or materials recovery facility, the County would handle any need for fewer staff or different staff through attrition or reassignment of existing staff rather than through layoff. • Transition Attachment 3 describes staff efforts to date, and those that will be necessary in the future, regarding transfer of employees, should the County assume overall solid waste management responsibility. An extensive list of transition issues in addition to personnel - including finance, budget, information technology, insurance, purchasing, solid waste billing and collection, office space, and the like has been prepared and previously provided to the Board. Much preliminary work has been done on these issues, but additional work will be required if a formal decision is made that the County will assume overall solid waste management responsibility. C. Timing of Solid Waste Management Transfer A substantial amount of lead time would be required to accomplish the transition tasks that have been identified to date, and others that may yet become necessary. If the County does assume overall solid waste management responsibility, a target implementation date would be sometime in the first quarter of fiscal year 1999 -2000, but no sooner than July 1, 1999. It would be useful to develop a set of implementation milestones to ensure that all major tasks necessary to a successful transition between the Town and County are accomplished in a timely manner.