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The Parties note the expected forthcoming report of the Landfill Community Benefits Committee that has been studying the question of community'~benefits. Upon the release of the report, each Party shall provide for its Governing hoard to discuss the working group's proposal for community benefits, and 'shall provide- for such legal and -other staff analysis of the proposed list as it may deem appropriate (especially including legal analysis concerning the use of System funds to pay the costs of such benefits). After each Party has completed its own analysis, the Paxties shall work together, diligently and in good faith, to reach an agreement as to community benefits to ~ be pxova.ded._ The gracess of determining community benefits -shall continue to include participation by persons belonging to the relevant community. Binal determinations of the public benefits to be provided, the sources of financing and the mechanisms_for providing the benefits, howevex, shall be made only by further agreement of all tree Paxties. The Parties state their preference tha~_~benefits be financed from System fund's to the extent permitted by lawF•To the extent permitted by law and by generally- accepted accounting'¢-principles, to -the extent determined by the Parties .and notwithstand~.ng any other pxovisi.on of this Agreement, the costs- of providing publ"XC benefits as described in this Part 6 may be treated as an expense of the System and may be paid from System Revenues. .The public benefits contemplated 'by this Section are to be considered as separate and distinct from any compensation determined to be owed for any "taking" of an interest in property as determined by State or federal law.. 7. Tha parties will establish an advisarZr-board. The Parties hereby establish the Orange County Solid Waste Management Advisory Board to advise the County's Governing Board on matters related to the System and the Solid Waste Management Plan and l t Policies. The Advisory Board shall meet for the first -time not later ~~,~~• than November 7., 1999, :on the call of the members appointed by the County. The Parties will- continue to work through the existing Landfill Owners' Group ("LOG") on matters of solid waste management policy and operations until the Advisory Board begins to meet. TYae LOG shall continue to operate by consensus, but the Parties intend that the LOG shall make no recommendations far major financial commitments until it dissolves ox is replaced by the Advisory Berard. , Each Party shall appoint tw Exhibit C sets forth details responsibilities and the procedures forth the Parties' agreement as to of Advisory Board members. > members to the Advisory Board. concerning the. Advisory Board's that it shall follow, and also sets the appointment and terms of office 37 ZO