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Commissioner Gordon asked her to go aver Section A, the phase plan, and attachment 4. Elaine Holmes said that Section A is the old plan. Attachment 4 is the move forward C05tS. Commissioner Gordon asked several clarifying questions, which were answered by Elaine Holmes. Commissioner Jacobs said that it seems reasonable, using funds available, to move up the dates and to extend benefits to domestic partners -especially since BCBS is not going to charge an additional 1 °~ premium. He asked for more information on the housing wage. There is a question of providing a housing wage to employees who do not live in Orange County. Chair Brown said that they are being asked to authorize moving forward and approve the effective date of Phase 2. A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to authorize moving forward the approved effective date for Phase 2 implementation from January 19, 2004 to December 8, 2003, using funds already budgeted in 2003-04 and authorize implementation of Phase 3 of the Classification and Pay Study (an additional 2.5 percent salary increase for employees with seven or more years total service as a permanent County employee as of April 14, 2003) and establish the effective date as April 26, 2004, using funds already budgeted in 2003-04. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Elaine Holmes asked about the benefits for domestic partners. Commissioner Carey said that he thought we were going to include it for the next enrollment for January 2004 enrollment and Commissioner Halkiotis agreed. A motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to include the benefits for domestic partners. VOTE: UNANIMOUS John Link said that the health insurance trust would not allow them to make this effective January 2004. Elaine Holmes said that the time has past to do this from the health insurance trust perspective. 3. Solid Waste Matters Rod Visser said that the first issue is the need to provide the update to the State of the solid waste plan. The second issue is haw much it will cast to provide the current program of services or an expanded program over the next 10 years as the County continues to make progress towards the 61 % reduction goal. The County is currently number one in the State in waste reduction. The staff has been working on the proposal by the Solid Waste Advisory Board and have developed same refinements. He turned the presentation over to Solid Waste Director Gayle Wilson.