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Chair Carey said that, as the staff has indicated, the Board could change this document at any time. He asked if the Board wanted the changes mentioned by Commissioner Jacobs brought back before sending the document to the state. John Link said that this document could be turned around and a Resolution to Adopt could be brought back at the meeting on September Stn Commissioner Brawn asked how many entities actually turned in a plan to the state. Gayle Wilson said that most municipalities did turn in a plan. Commissioner Brown said that every time she reads these plans she feels as though they were written from a driven perspective. She said that it takes away from the achievements of the County. She would like to turn the language around to focus on what the County has done well. Commissioner Halkiotis said that what Orange County was doing with this plan was exemplary. He thinks we should tell the public what the County is doing. Rod Visser said the County was at about a 37°~ reduction in solid waste since 1992. He assured the Board that the staff would take the comments to heart and recognize some of the accomplishments in the County. Gayle Wilson said that the staff did get overwhelmed by deadlines, but the state department, The Department of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance, really touts Orange County all over the state as a real success story. Commissioner Jacobs said that maybe one of the things the Solid Waste Advisory Board could do would be to review this plan once a year and do a report annually to the citizens as to what the County is doing as far as moving toward achieving the goals. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he did not believe the numbers really reflected everything that was going on with recycling, such as the amount of cardboard that is recycled from the two school systems by private companies. He said that he would suspect that 37°~ was a low number. John Link made reference to the background material from the Triangle J Solid Waste Planners Committee that depicted the current status of solid waste generation and management within the region. He said that the Board of Commissioners and the Solid Waste Advisory Board would be interested in seeing this document. 4. Solid Waste Facilities Rod Visser made reference to the relocation of the current solid waste administration facility, which is on University property. He said that the University and the Town of Chapel Hill would probably want that property back in the near future and the search far new property should begin soon. Gayle Wilson said that it was difficult to view each of the issues as an entirely separate, disconnected siting issue from the others. He said that if there was a C&D disposal facility, it was advisable to locate adjacent to that a C&D recycling facility because the two are interactive. He said that it was inevitable that the County would have a transfer station and it will have to go somewhere. He thinks there is going to be a lot of discussion about the possibility of a MRF. He asked the Board to try to think about the facilities as a group of facilities that the solid waste staff would try to locate so that they could compliment each other to the maximum efficiency. Commissioner Brown said that she was not sure that the MRF issue should be sent directly to the Solid Waste Advisory Board. She would like to see a master plan for Eubanks Road. She would like to see the facility as something of great pride in the community. Commissioner Jacobs said that he agreed with Commissioner Brown. He would like to knave what facilities have to go together and what facilities optionally go together. He would also like to see some sort of master plan. He said that he understood that now that there was a new Chancellor, the County might not have to move off the UNC property. Gayle Wilson said that in the event that the University said they would extend the lease for a long period of time, he believes the Town of Chapel Hill would want the County to consider relocating because the County is right in the middle of the Public Works facility, which is short on space.