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Norxna White: I am a resident of the Schley community and regularly use the Walnut Gro`�e Convenience Center. Thank you a11 for your great efforts on our behaif. At the same time I say thank you I say you are not listening to the rural population. We have [made] quite [a] considerable effort in making that survey available to everybody and I don't hear that message being reflected in that plan. The rural Orange County people and their needs are not what�the municipalities and urban centers use or need. We don't need recycling. We have our own ability to do that. Reflections of what rural Orange needs is not been clearly reflected in any of tl�is proposal and urge you hard to look at it carefully. Hank Rodenburg: I came here to get educated not make comments. I would Iike to ask tu�o questions. I was happy to see that the total waste collected from 07-08 to 08-09 was reduced from 86,000 to 83,000 tons but then I read on the side line that it mid-September you stopx�ed collecting from UNC 5,200 tons. Did that have an affect on the 83,000 tons? If you have still collected would there have been an increase instead of a decrease? Pollock states that the 83,000 tons does include the LTNC waste that went out of County after no longer came to the landfill. � My second question is can you gi've a little update of the results of the study under conside;ration of alternative technologies particular as it related to the mass combustion and incinerator. Are there any definite results out of the study or if it is still ongoing? Wilson states that the County conducted a study a little over a year and a half ago that was, a preliminary assessment of the available technologies at that time and the potential for bein�g appropriate for Orange County and/or the region. Since that time we've had at least one visiting speaker come in to explain a particular pyrolysis technology, staff has visited a presentation recwently in Greensboro and the BOCC has assigned the Solid Waste Advisory Boaxd to make a recommendation on a plan to continue and more comprehensively assess available techno:logies and the SWAB has that on an upcoming agenda. The plan will probably involved bringin€;in additional experts to make presentations to citizens and the SWAB and at some point the]BOCC may discuss it and give staff further instructions on how they would like to proceed to narrow it down to further to those technologies that might of particular interest and appeal. Robert Campbell: Regarding the direction of the County Commissioners to not place a transfer station in Orange County and to contract with Durham to take our trash, can you give us t:he current status of that agreement and any contingency plan in place should this fall through? The closure of the Orange County landfill has many environmental and financial implications for the county and especially the Rogers Rd. community. Can you give us the date certain for thf� closure of the landfill and any possible issues that would make it impossible to stay on schedule far closure? I understand you want to keep it open for euthanized animals and hurricane debris. I understand you wanted to vent the gas,but why did the vents get placed at the back end of the landfill,near the community. I would like to join with others speaking this evening emphasizing the importance of incr��asing the hours of the convenience centers. People are finding places in our community to thro�w their bags into the woods. When trash trucks go up and down Rogers Road and Eubanks Road,,trash is being spilled up and down the road. It fa11s on the community to pick that up and last timf;we got six pickup trucks of trash. It tells us that workers at Solid Waste axe not picking up trash alongside the road. 65