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ORANGE COUNTY } <br /> BOARD of COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM BSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 26, 2011 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution Exercising orange C unt 's Right to Increase the Mixed Solid <br /> Waste Tipping Fee to Mitigate Adverse Environmental Conditions and <br /> Requesting Orange Cou ty's Partner Municipalities Endorse the Use of <br /> Revenues Generated by the Increased Fees for F emediation Efforts in the <br /> Rogers Road Area <br /> DEPARTMENT: county Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: l N <br /> ATTAc lT S : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Resolution Sohn Roberts,.County Attorney, 245-2318 <br /> Copy of lnterloc l Agreement Frank Clifton, county Manager. 2 --23 6 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approving a resolution exercising orange Coun y's right to increase <br /> the mixed solid waste tipping fee to mitigate adverse environmental conditions and requesting <br /> Orange C unty's partner municipalities endorse the use of revenues generated by the <br /> increased fees for remediatlon efforts in the Rogers Road Area, ; <br /> . <br /> BACKGROUND: At the Board's May 17, 2011 regular meeting, the Manager er presented a plan <br /> for the Remediation of the historic Rogers Road Community. Part of the plan included the <br /> establishment ent of a Rogers Road Remediation Reserve Fund with an initial appropriation of <br /> $750,000 from the Solid Waste Fund Balance effective Jury 1, 2011. In addition, the Manager <br /> recommended a $5.00 miked solid waste tipping fee surcharge be established. effective July 1, <br /> 2011 to support the Fund. The Manager er further recommended that the surcharge incrementally <br /> increase each fiscal year by a minimum $2 per ton as long as the landfill is operational to fund <br /> the Solid Waste Rogers ers Road R.emed iation .reserve Fund. All funds would bet maintained in <br /> the solid Waste Fund and used for rernediation of the Rogers road Community as directed by <br /> the Board. <br /> To implement a Mixed solid waste tipping fee increase, the Agreement for Solid Waste <br /> Management solid waste (often referred to as the "In erlocal Agreement") approved in 19 <br /> y the County as well as the towns of Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro requires that the <br /> Board of Commissioners adopt a resolution .starting the plans to increase the fee and that the <br /> County provide a coley of the approved resolution to all the Agreement parties. The copy of the <br /> approved resolution gust be provided to the Interlocal Agreement parties at least thirty (30) <br /> days prior to implementation of the tipping fee increase, If the Board approves the resolution at <br /> this meeting, the Clerk to the Board and Manager will provide copies of the resolution to each <br /> town in order to meet the 30-dal requirement ent in advance of the projected July 1, 2011 <br /> implementation date. <br /> t <br />