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schedule. The transfer station must be ready to receive waste the day of the closure of the landfill. Commissioner Jacabs thanked the Solid Waste Advisory Board for all of their work. He asked about the resale stare and the passibility of storing materials recovered from deconstruction. He asked if this would be part of the same facility that Habitat might use, ar if it would be a separate building. Gayle Wilson said that it would make sense to consolidate this into one activity, but he is not sure how much ownership Habitat would want to take for the large amounts of incoming material. He expects that Habitat would have stringent standards as to what they would accept. Commissioner Jacabs asked if the State allows roads through the buffer and Gayle Wilson said yes. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about the volume of usable debris coming off construction sites that Habitat can reasonably sell. Gayle Wilson said that the overall volume of C&D material is significantly less than four or five years ago. The Regulated Recycling Materials C}rdinance has been effective. There are some haulers that haul their debris elsewhere to evade the ordinance altogether. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about the proposal to go to an 11,000-square foot building. Gayle Wilson said that it was Habitat's proposal. Commissioner Halkiotis asked who would pay for the structure and Gayle Wilson said that it was his understanding that the County would pay for it. Commissioner Gordan arrived at 6:30 p.m. Gayle Wilson answered several clarifying questions about the proposed resale store. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he and Commissioner Jacabs represented the Board in putting together a legislative package. He is convinced that school systems need to plan in their budgets for the appropriate recycling of electronic products. He asked how the electronic recycling has been going. He asked if citizens had to pay for dropping off items. Gayle Wilson said that citizens do not have to pay, but businesses are charged $5.00 for dropping off monitors. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about markets in North Carolina for these monitors and Solid Waste staff member Rab Taylor said that there is no closed loop for these materials in North Carolina other than reselling them. Commissioner Halkiotis said that it is sad that some places are still burying CRTs. He wonders when the State is going to wake up and get concerned about what is getting buried. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about the number of landfills that have electronic recycling. SWAB member Jae Clayton said that the smallest county that does it is Lee County. There are 11 permanent collection sites in the State and 40 counties that collect. There are 26 licensed electronics recycling companies operating in North Carolina. Gayle Wilson made reference to the legislation and said that at the last session there was a bill proposed that did not make it through. Joe Clayton said that they are going to pass the legislation in a different form in that they will put a small fee on CRT's. Commissioner Jacobs said that electronics recycling is still in the legislative packet. Commissioner Jacobs pointed out that the Habitat Store was a proposal that came out of the C&D Recycling Task Force. He thinks that Habitat should be involved in constructing the store. He would like to invite Habitat to came and make a presentation to SWAB when they are closer to coming up with an agreement.