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structures. Gayle Wilson said that most go with the owners because occupants come and ga and you lose a lot of money in the shuffle. Commissioner Carey asked about the $2.4 million that would have to be replaced and if this includes only the cost of disposal and not the cost of collection Rod Visser said that it includes the cost of collections of recyclables but not the collection of mixed solid waste. Commissioner Carey said that he was under the impression that if a district tax model were selected that a district can be all or any portion of the County. Gayle Wilson said that he thinks this is true. Commissioner Carey made reference to the May 10, 1999 letter from Gayle Wilson to Cal Horton and the criteria to establish a service district (page 61) and he read as follows: "It is impossible or impractical to provide these services on a countywide basis." Rod Visser said that it is a statutory provision. Commissioner Jacobs made reference to "other considerations" and "Proceeds not yet distributed to enterprise fund from disposition of Greene Tract." He asked if there was a working number of what we will recover. Gayle Wilson said that Finance Director Ken Chaviaus has worked up these numbers. Rod Visser said that we do have those numbers and recommendations and they will be coming back to the Board with recommendations and the timeline and process and haw other municipalities will pay. Chair Brown said that some of the pay back amount was extended over the years or was postponed until the Greene Tract could be developed. Rod Visser said that the work group discussed having a triggering mechanism to have the jurisdictions pay money back to the enterprise fund. This way no one jurisdiction would be hit particularly hard in one year. Commissioner Jacobs said that we need to be clear on the payments that we are counting on. Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the funding for the neighborhood public water project where we added an extra dollar to the tipping fee to try and recover that. He asked if this was the second ar third year. Gayle Wilson said that before money was paid there was only one or two years of that dollar advance. The County paid $600,000 even though the dollar had only generated about $150,000. There was not a separate fund set up; it was just a way to generate same additional money. This dollar is still in the tipping fee. Commissioner Jacobs said that we could continue thinking about the dollar as paying back the $600,000. He said that when we do talk about increasing the tipping fee, we may not want to include this dollar. Commissioner Jacobs asked how much of the projections and hypotheticals are based on the 61 % waste reduction by 2006. Gayle Wilson said that the plan is assumed in the 10-year plan. The cost of implementation is included in the fees. The plan is assumed to be fully implemented in 2008-09. The leveling fees will be included in there. Commissioner Halkiotis said that a water bottle is worth 5 cents in Maine and in North Carolina we have to pay to have it recycled. He asked if there was a