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APPROVED 5115101 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION January 29, 2001 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Monday, January 29, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. in the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners Margaret W. Brawn, Moses Carey, Jr. Alice Gordon, and Barry Jacobs COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Manager Rod Visser and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe {All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. ALL RECORDINGS OF THE MEETING WILL BE KEPT FOR 5 YEARS. 1. SOLID WASTE DISPOSITION OF C & D: REUSE, DISPOSAL, ORDINANCE John Link said that there are two items far the Board's consideration. One is the disposition of C&D waste. The staff has offered three approaches in the form of resolutions for the Board to consider. The other item is related to the Solid Waste Ordinance that would deal with regulating solid waste materials. Rod Visser said that most of the background information is not new information, but information that the County Commissioners have previously received. There are three alternate resolutions. The first resolution would state that the County is not going to pursue an additional C&D landfill after the current landfill is filled up in the early summer of 2002. The second resolution indicates that the County is going to pursue some type of C&D disposal capability beyond the summer of 2002 in Orange County. The third resolution is that the County is going to pursue a C&D disposal site at the Eubanks Road site. He made reference to the C&D task force recommendations and said that the primary recommendation had to do with the creation of an ordinance that would deal with regulating recyclable materials. Commissioner Carey asked if the adoption of an ordinance would require the County to have a means for disposing of the C&D waste and Rod Visser said that that was part of the conclusion of the C&D task force. Commissioner Jacobs said that he would like to add some additional "Whereas" statements to resolution C. He suggested an additional point that says, "Whereas, a broad based citizen's task force that included members of the construction industry recommended to the Board of County Commissioners to support increased regulation and related infrastructure far recycling and recovery of C&D waste." He said that part of the thinking of the group was that the Caunty needed to be mare aggressive if it is going to meet the 60°~ goal. The ordinance is one way to get people's attention to not impact small projects that individuals were doing, but to capture the construction industry. The task farce also thought that there might be some ways to generate some related revenue. Commissioner Gordon asked when the County will reach capacity and it was clarified that it would reach capacity in 2002.