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10 1 Tony Whitaker: Regarding food waste, the kids generally bring their lunches. I do suppose 2 that there is some waste from that. The school is very good about segregating all kinds of 3 waste and very receptive to hearing about better ways to separate waste and collect. 4 Composting is an active part of some of the things that go on campus. Those are in the 5 operational protocols of the program already. 6 Commissioner Jacobs: This memorandum that we got thaYs kind of separate for solid waste 7 disposal and management practices, it may just be picking at words, but some of the 8 requirements where it says, "recycle a scrap as an aggregate producer," sometimes it says, "if 9 practical" and other times it says, "as practical." I would think "as practical° denotes more of a 10 commitment to do it than "if practical." 11 Tony Whitaker: I agree with you. I think the intent is as practical in every case. As the one 12 who wrote those words, I don't believe I made such a fine point of distinction at the time of 13 writing, but I do understand that as you speak of it, and I agree. The point is that certain things 14 are practical and certain things are not. They'll become manifest in the moment or at the time. 15 Sometimes there is a market for some kinds of material and sometimes there's not, depending 16 on economic cycles. Those things can be sorted through with another solid waste management 17 plan at the time of site plan approval for each facet of the work. Your point is well taken. 18 Commissioner Jacobs: So it will be reflected somewhere in the future. 19 Tony Whitaker: Yes. And to the current standards at that time. 20 Commissioner Jacobs: My last point, it is not really the Friends School's problem, but it is 21 more of the County's problem. 22 It must be already 15 years since Piney Mountain had its system failure. Piney Mountain is a 23 subdivision not far from the Friends School that had a system that was supposed to be cutting 24 edge, and in fact it didn't work. It was governed by the same entity that is now being designated 25 to administer this system. 26 We spent a number of years trying to come up with a mechanism to prevent reliance on DWQ to 27 have the sole authority over regulating these kinds of systems in Orange County because it was 28 such a mess to have to deal with when the Piney Mountain system failed, and Mr. Whitaker is 29 nodding his head, he remembers. We had to come up with a special way to get water and 30 sewer from Durham into the rural buffer. 31 I don't know really that there's anything to say about this project other than I would like at least 32 to put in the record the possibility that Environmental Health staff look at the possibility of adding 33 an inspection per year beyond what the state requires so that there's some local oversight of the 34 system. Because also what happened was the state was not following through on doing the 35 number of inspections of the system, so they didn't even notice very quickly that it had failed. 36 Of course the state has been cutting staff for these kinds of functions. I don't know that it's 37 necessarily a big issue for you because you're already so far into the pipeline and to bring up 38 now that there's a more global issue for the County is not really fair. I do think iYs a more global 39 issue for the County, especially if we ever want to do anything more creative in rural areas 40 about having any other kind of system other than a well and septic tank. I would at least like to 41 have Environmental Health look at whether or not there's a way to bolster the state's inspection. 42 I don't know that it would be anything but redundant, but it might prevent something like what we 43 had to go through before. 44 45 Commissioner McKee: Going back to the issue of the ball field. I heard mention of moving 46 the ball field to the east to take into account the adjacent property owners' concerns. If I might 24