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Ed Shuffler and Bob Sallach are the senior engineers with Olver. Ed Shuffler walked the <br /> Board of County Commissioners through the hand out and explained the steps to the Board of <br /> County Commissioners for tonight's meeting. <br /> Solid Waste Siting Charts <br /> Work Session Agenda <br /> • Overview of Siting Process Methodology <br /> • Technical Ranking Example <br /> • Schedule <br /> • Exclusionary Criteria <br /> • Technical Criteria <br /> • Community-Specific Criteria <br /> • Public Input/Participation Process <br /> Methodology <br /> • Establish criteria for identifying and evaluating potential sites <br /> Develop criteria prior to identifying potential sites. <br /> • Three categories of criteria: <br /> ▪ Exclusionary <br /> 4, Technical <br /> ▪ Community-Specific <br /> • Establish each criterion's relative weight and importance <br /> Commissioner Carey said that the diagram implies that there would be no public <br /> comment on exclusionary criteria and Ed Shuffler agreed and said that this is generally how this <br /> is approached. <br /> Commissioner Carey asked about public input and if this was referring to a public <br /> hearing type venue. He said that, normally, when the Board makes decisions of this nature, it is <br /> in an open meeting. Ed Shuffler said that it is unusual for them to have the Board of County <br /> Commissioners as the siting committee, and to please bear with them. <br /> Chair Jacobs said that the plan is to have subsequent meetings at the Southern Human <br /> Services Center, and it has not been decided whether the meetings will have a public comment <br /> component. This needs to be decided. <br /> Methodology <br /> • Identify potential sites based upon exclusionary criteria <br /> • Evaluation of potential sites with respect to final technical criteria and weighting <br /> factors <br /> • Determination of final candidate sites <br />