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Commissioner Gordan noted the financial impact statement, which indicates that there is no direct immediate impact and asked what the long-term impact would be. John Link said that they are using their present staff. However, there will be some cast to address the signage, but additional staff such as interpreters may need to be added. He suggested we pursue signage and use existing staff to respond to telephone inquiries. There is already staff in DSS and the Health Department who speak Spanish. Commissioner Halkiotis encouraged the staff to be creative. He said that there were many graduate students and many people in the Hispanic community who would love to be able to pick up some extra money by helping with these services. A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to approve the proposed policy and action plan. VOTE: UNANIMOUS e. Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance The Board considered adopting a Regulated Recyclable Materials ordinance. Chair Jacobs made reference to the information that was distributed. Page three has the equipment costs associated with this initiative. He made reference to the issue of prohibition of open burning of wood waste as it relates to agricultural enterprises and said that the Board has asked staff to work on this mare and it will be coming back to the County Commissioners. Rod Visser said that the staff is also asking the Board to approve the creation of a permanent full-time Construction and Demolition Education and Enforcement Specialist when this ordinance is adopted. This ordinance was recommended from the C&D Recycling Task Farce that was appointed by the Commissioners in late 1999. The purpose of the proposed ordinance is to regulate recyclable construction and demolition materials and other materials in the waste stream by keeping them from being landfilled and requiring that they be separated through recycling policies. The Board held a public hearing in November on the ordinance and received a lot of feedback from the public. Most of the concerns were related to how this would affect the agricultural community, particularly with regard to potential threats on land-clearing practices for new fields. The Board of County Commissioners is very concerned about this. The staff is recommending that the Board adopt the ordinance without this point far now. The staff will come back within a few months and include a ban on burning of non-reusable wood waste after the options are examined for helping the agricultural community. The only significant change in the ordinance from the public hearing is that the definition of solid waste has been changed to eliminate non-reusable wood waste as an element. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about the horizontal grinder and if it is mobile and can be transported and Solid Waste Director Gayle Wilson said that it could be transported. A motion was made by Commissioner Carey, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to adopt the ordinance as attached and approved the creation of a permanent, full-time Construction and Demolition Education/Enforcement Specialist position, effective immediately. There was someone that had signed up to speak about this item. Aaron Nelson, Executive Director of the Chapel Hill-Carrbaro Chamber of Commerce, encouraged the Board to further explore ways to provide incentives to encourage people to use this ordinance in advance of the expiration of the grace period. A discount in tipping fees would be helpful. He objected to the 6Q-day delay for the demolition of buildings to allow time for staff to assess what can be salvaged. The delay should be restricted to the full demolition of a structure -not knocking out a wall or removing a door. He asked for flexible enforcement of segregated materials. He said that he could put his cardboard at his curbside collection. He asked if the truck would be allowed to dump at the site, if it is not just for C&D but for everything that comes through the landfill. Gayle Wilson said that the ban on cardboard that currently exists does not apply to residential cardboard because there are not curbside programs that collect cardboard. This ordinance would apply to all cardboard. However, staff will focus on C&D, associated cardboard, and commercial cardboard. Regarding the 60-day option for demolition, the ordinance allows up to 60 days and he does not feel that it will take nearly that long. Quite honestly, the staff believes that 90+% of projects would be delayed two weeks or less.