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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. While it had been hoped this Plan update would have more decisive elements to it, the draft as it now stands is mostly a descriptive document. Work Group recommendations and BOCC decisions with regard to convenience centers, rural waste collection franchising, etc. have not been made to date and discussions are continuing. Staff believes the County should submit the Plan update as soon as possible to become compliant and remain eligible for state grants. The Plan can be updated or revised at any time when/if decisions are made. He said that the last year of record —2008-2009—Orange County hit a 54% waste reduction per capita rate, which means that the County is continuing to make progress towards the 61% goal. He highlighted some of the pending issues that need to be discussed by all governmental entities. The most evident is the interlocal agreement as the landfill closes. The Solid Waste Advisory Board will be bringing back recommendations about this by the time of the November work session of the BOCC. There is a long list of issues on page 18 of the report. The Solid Waste Plan Work Group did endorse retaining the 61% goal, but there needs to be more considerable effort to achieve this. Sammy Slade said that it was encouraging that the County was able to extend the closing of the landfill for two more years. He said that there is a huge opportunity to expand into the future regarding compostable organics. Ed Harrison arrived at 7:35 PM. Mayor Mark Chilton pointed out that there were elected officials from all four governments who were involved in this process of the report. Commissioner Jacobs said that part of the conversation today was on solid waste convenience centers. Part of the proposal that is going to come forward has to do with two district convenience centers that would be enhanced to capture more recyclables. One of the streams is organic waste. He said that the County is not capturing all of the school waste, and there will be a report back on why this is happening. Commissioner Pelissier made reference to page 18 and the mention of regulatory economic incentives and the comment about pay-as-you-throw. She asked if there has been any discussion about this and whether pay-as-you-throw is the only economic incentive. She said that the County should look at all economic incentives. Commissioner Yuhasz said that this question points out the need for continued and increased cooperation with all of the jurisdictions. One of the problems with pay-as-you-throw