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She thinks that they should be more aggressive, as Joal Hall Broun said, and try and get some <br />advocacy for some of the needed projects. <br />Mayor Foy said that money is very tight for transportation projects, but there seems to be <br />millions of dollars to widen I-85 in Orange County. He does not know why this is. He would like <br />to get a piece of this money. He does not know why this section of interstate needs to be <br />widened because every time he drives it, it is fine. <br />Mayor Foy brought something up that he said is controversial between Carrboro and <br />Chapel Hill. He said that their 2030 plan calls far a corridor that goes from the hospital to <br />Carolina North. The corridor would use the existing train track and it ends at Cameron Avenue. <br />Carrboro is planning that this would be the corridor and then it will link up along Cameron <br />Avenue. Chapel Hill has taken the position that the transportation corridor should go dawn <br />Franklin Street and not Cameron Avenue. The problem is that these do not connect. The staff <br />is saying that there is na way to know where the corridor will be until there is an environmental <br />impact study. He is worried about it because if Carrboro builds toward this goal and anticipates <br />that this is where the linkage will be, and then Chapel Hill plans it for another place, he thinks <br />this would be a problem. <br />Alex Zaffron said that their position was that it was premature to preclude the corridor for <br />consideration. They asked the TAC to send the issue to the staffs far study. He understands <br />that the Chapel Hill Town Council took a stronger position on it and Carrboro has not been able <br />to revisit the issue. He hopes that everyone involved can try to keep an open mind about it. <br />Mayor Foy said that he brought it up because he wanted everyone to know about it. He <br />said that the Chapel Hill Town Council has assured the citizens along Cameron Avenue that <br />there would not be a corridor through there. <br />C. Solid Waste Issues <br />1) Status of Regulated Recyclables Materials Ordinance (RRMO) <br />Rod Visser said that this was implemented by the County in October 2002. This has so <br />far been extremely successful in terms of reducing waste. The County is at 46-47% waste <br />reduction. The Towns of Carrboro and Hillsborough have also implemented the RRMO within <br />their jurisdictions. The County staff will be happy to work with the Town of Chapel Hill. <br />2) Solid Waste Advisory Board fSWAB1-Three Year Comprehensive Plan <br />Update Process <br />In early February, the Board of County Commissioners had a work session with the <br />SWAB and addressed the need to prepare the next three-year update of the Solid Waste <br />Management Plan that is required by state regulation. This plan is due to the state in June <br />2006. The Board of County Commissioners gave direction to the SWAB to engage each town <br />to participate in this project and a work group was created. The first meeting of the work group <br />was in early April and there is another one in May. <br />3) Interlocal Agreement -History, Update and Summary of Responsibilities of <br />Parties, including Payments Required <br />Rad Visser mentioned that the nation of possible changes in the way commercial solid <br />waste is collected. The County's interest is that when waste is generated, that it come to the <br />Orange County landfill because it helps to underwrite the solid waste programs and recycling <br />programs. <br />Commissioner Jacobs asked for an explanation and if Chapel Hill has a problem with the <br />RRMO. Mayor Foy said that Chair Carey had talked with him recently, and there is no problem <br />but it has not been at the tap of the agenda yet. <br />