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r Table 3-f Landfill Fees in Oran e County 2009-10 Fee Type Fee Amount Comments Municipal Solid Waste $50 per ton Includes state disposal tax of $2 er ton Construction and Demolition $44 per ton Includes state disposal tax of Waste $2 per ton Yard waste and clean wood $18 per ton No state disposal t�charged as it is not disposed Scrap metal and cardboard $0 Revenue rec'd from materials Sale. Materials banned from dis osal by Co. ordinance Appliances (white goods) and $0 State law—disposal costs Tires covered through advance disposal fee. White goods reimbursements do not cover expenses. Future of the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund Enterprise fund reserves as of June 30, 2009 were projected to be $6,958,498 to which the equipment/vehicle replacement portion is $4,298,854. Sanitation Division equipment is not currently included in this reserve as no contributions have been made. Cost estimates for the funding of landfill closure, long-term maintenance and environmental monitoring are awaiting final design along with permitting of the closure plan and its associated costs. Sta.ff has assumed that closure expenses are to be substantially fmanced from reserves. While there will be significant reduction in expenditures (persorinel and equipment) once the landfill closes, enterprise fund revenues sources will be diminished and aze likely to fall below expenses. An enterprise fund financial analysis will be conducted over the next few months in cooperation with the Orange County Finance Department to evaluate and refine the enterprise fund's fmancial viability. The goal is to adjust the level of services, fee rates and any other revenues to attain operational efficiencies to achieve a fully funded enterprise fund model for all county solid waste operations. Future convenience center operations could shift further or entirely away from the general fund towards annual household fees, fee based or Pay-As-You- Throw based systems or some combination. Those are future decisions currently being analyzed in preparation for discussion with the Board of Commissioners.No decisions have been made. The Solid Waste Advisory Board does recommend a short-term focus on re-expansion of service hours as a top funding priority. The Work Group recommendation includes an annual per household fee as a major means of supporting SWCC operations and capital needs. The notion of offsetting ta��reductions if fees are instituted has not yet been discussed or deternuned because the analyses have not been done and the BOCC has not addressed the issue. The Environmental Support Division provides both direct and indirect administrative and environmental support to the other divisions that include education/outreach, enforcement, planning,maintenance, utilities, insurance, facilities, financial,retiree health,janitorial services, billing, clericaUadministrative,payroll, etc. support for the entire department. Funding for Environmental Support is currently split between the Recycling and Landfill Divisions,but with the addition of the Sanita.tion Division these support costs may need to be reallocated. 37