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' 1 ORANGE COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF GOVERNMENTS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 16, 2010 Action Agenda Item No. o'� SUBJECT: Solid Waste Plan Work Group Update DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Draft Plan Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 Blair Pollock, 968-2885 PURPOSE: To provide a brief status report on the state-mandated three year update to Orange County's Ten Year Solid Waste Plan process. BACKGROUND: The statutorily-required three-year update to the ten-year Solid Waste Plan was due to the State on June 30, 2009. There have been no penalties for being late although the statutes allow penalties such as ineligibility for State grants (to date the County has not been prohibited from receiving grant reimbursements). Due to the deliberate planning process that the County and its partner governments have engaged in, there is now a draft Plan awaiting additional review and comment by the public, review and adoption by the Towns, and final review and approval by the Board of Commissioners and submittal to the State. The current draft (attached) was presented to the Solid Waste Plan Work Group for consideration at its June meeting, but the Group did not have time to review it at that meeting. The Plan will again be on the agenda for the Group's September 16th meeting. Solicitation of public comments is also scheduled for a public meeting at 7:00 p.m. on September 29th at the Solid Waste Management Department's offices. The public meeting is sponsored by the Solid Waste Advisory Board and will be advertised online at the Solid Waste Management Department's web page and in the media as well as discussed in the Department's regular monthly articles in local papers in September. Following input from the public meeting, County staff will schedule the draft Plan for formal presentation to the Boards of each of the three Towns and request their approval for the Plan. This has been done with each of the three previous updates in 2000, 2004 (for 2003) and 2008 (for 2006). After receiving input from the various Town elected boards and their constituents and incorporating that input into the draft Plan, the Plan will be presented to the Board of County Commissioners for consideration. Following Board approval of the Plan, staff will submit it to the State. The Plan is due to be updated again by June 2012.