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8 <br />(5) No additional funding for consultants to pursue these matters shall be authorized <br />without explicit direction from the Board. <br />The array of proven and unproven technologies is considerable and growing. Research <br />and development of technological waste management methodologies and processes <br />continues across the world. While the SWAB, staff, various interested citizens and <br />elected officials can and do receive information with regard to various technologies, the <br />ability to conduct meaningful and reliable evaluation of the dozens of technologies in <br />various states of operation, research or development, including associated issues of <br />economics, applicability, permittability, markets for by-products and specific local <br />adaptability/suitability, etc., require a level of technical knowledge and experience that <br />the SWAB and staff do not have. <br />Based on SWAB discussions beginning in 2008 it is the general consensus that such <br />technologies, as a practical matter, simply can't be evaluated without technical assistance. <br />Recent discussions by SWAB members on the issue of development of a timeline and <br />framework for evaluation of technologies again reached the same conclusion. Therefore, <br />as part of any suggested framework and timeframe for evaluation of alternative <br />technologies made to the BOCC will of necessity likely include some mention of <br />technical assistance. <br />(6) To exclude the Millhouse Road -Rogers Road-Eubanks Road communities from any <br />future solid waste facilities. <br />It has been generally accepted by staff, particularly following the decision by the BOCC <br />that a transfer station would not be considered for existing Eubanks Road landfill <br />property and adjacent properties, that it would not be politically acceptable for <br />consideration of future new solid waste facilities. This has been understood to include <br />lateral landfill expansions, transfer stations, and other waste disposal related facilities. <br />It has also been understood that existing facilities and operations (recycling, waste <br />reduction and maintenance or equipment/fleet parking related) can remain and may <br />occasionally need to be repaired, upgraded, expanded or otherwise modified or improved. <br />For instance, the existing recyclables processing and transfer pad will of necessity have to <br />be relocated in 5-6 years as it is currently located in the Construction and Demolition <br />landfill footprint. It is anticipated that it would be relocated a few hundred feet east <br />within landfill property and perform essentially the same function as the existing facility. <br />Also, it is highly likely that the existing SWCC will be improved or upgraded at some <br />point in the future. <br />In order to clarify the BOCC intentions on Enterprise Fund property, we suggest, <br />sometime in 2011, that staff update the BOCC adopted 2001 Eubanks Road property <br />master plan clarify county intentions, acknowledging that future Boards may pursue other <br />decisions. <br />4 <br />