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Draft Appendiz I Financial plan to be finalized as part of the final, integrated solid waste management plan. The Solid Waste Department operates as an enterprise fund.In 2010-11 the Board of Commissioners has incorporated the Sanitation Division into the enterprise fund,with primary funding continuing to be transferred from the General Fund, at least until alternative funding sources axe identified. During FY 2008-09 various sources of revenue contribute to funding county solid waste services including landfill tipping fees (31%), 3-R Fee (31%),recycling materials sales,mulch sales,penalties and licensing fees, interest on income, state reimbursements for tires and white goods(9%),fund balance appropriation 6%, CIP 4%,general fund for Sanitation 19%. The 3-R Fee is s unique county-wide funding mechanism established to fund recycling programs and services in throughout the county. It is a tiered fee created in 2002 and levied on each improved property according to the type of recycling services provided.All improved properties, regardless of type,have a basic fee of$37 per unit per year. In addition, if the properiy receives weekly curbside recycling, it incurs a$52 additional cost, biweekly curbside, $38 annual cost or multifamily cart type service an additional $19 per unit cost. Those revenue funds 100%of recycling program operating and capital costs. Addition of the County's Sanitation Division to the Departrnent has transferred an expense and corollary source of revenue from the General Fund to the Enterprise Fund,which had been earmarked specifically to cover costs of operating the convenience centers as well as waste collections from the County school and County government buildings. County schools collections are fully funded by a fee for service arrangement that is paid to the general fund to support the Sanitation operation. Recycling related convenience center services will be newly funded by the 3-R Fee beginning FY 2010/11. For example, expenses related to hauling of scrap metal,wood, brush,white goods and tires will now cease to be funded by general fund contributions. More work will be conducted over the coming year to refine Sanitation's integration into the enterprise fund, including internal allocation of indirect costs. Other challenges for future financial planning include convenience center improvements, financing a broad public commercial recycling effort, MSW landfill closure, shifting convenience center operating revenues to a more user based(non-tax based) funding methodology,recycling markets, etc. Staffwill be conducting further financial analysis over the summer and fall of 2010 to assess the future viability of the enterprise fund and to develop a long-term financial model. 92