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• . <br />The Parties note the expected forthcoming report of the Landfill <br />Community Benefits Committee that has been studying the question of <br />community•benefits. Upon -the release of the report, each Party shall <br />provide for its Governing Board to discuss the ~,rorking group's proposal <br />for community benefits, and shall provide for such legal and other <br />staff analysis of the proposed list as it may deem appropriate <br />{especially including legal analysis concerning the use of System funds <br />to pay the costs of such benefits). After each Party has completed its <br />own analysis, the Parties •shall work together, diligently and in good <br />faith, to reach an agr_ee:nent as to community benefits to- be provided_ <br />The process of determining community benefits shall continue to include <br />participation- by persons belonging to the relevant community. Final <br />determinations of the public benefits to be provided, the sources of <br />financing and the menhaaisms-for providing the_benefits, however, shall <br />be made only bjz-further agreement of all the Parties. <br />The Parties state their preference that"benefits be financed from <br />System funds to the extent permitted by lawn To the extent permitted by <br />law and by generally accepted accounting~b-principles, to the extent <br />determined by the Parties and notwithstanrY~.ng any other provision of <br />this Agreement, the costs of providing pubTXC benefits as described in- <br />this Part 6 may be treated as an expense of the System and may be paid <br />from System Revenues. <br />.The public benefits contemplated by this Section are to be <br />considered as separate and distinct from any compensation, determined to <br />be owed for any "taking" of an interest in property as determined by <br />State or federal law. <br />7. The parties-will establish an advisory board. <br />The Parties hereby establish the Orange County Solid Waste <br />Management Advisory Board to advise the County's Governing Board on <br />matters related to the System and the Solid Waste Management Plan and. <br />Policies. The Advisory Board shall meet for the first time not later <br />than November ]., 1999, on the call of the members appointed by the <br />County. . <br />The Parties will continue to work through the existing Landfill <br />Owners' Group ("LOG") on matters of solid waste management policy and <br />operations until the Advisory Board begins to meet. The LOG shall <br />continue to operate by consensus, but the Parties intend that the LOG <br />shall make no recommendations for major financial commitments until it <br />dissolves or is replaced by the Advisory Board. <br />Each Party shall appoint • tw <br />Exhibit C sets forth details <br />responsibilities and the procedures <br />forth the Parties' agreement as to <br />of Advisory Board members. <br />~ members to the Advisory Board. <br />concerning the Advisory Board`s <br />that it shall follow, and also sets <br />the appointment and terms of office <br />19 <br />l0 <br />