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• Evaluation of final candidate sites based upon final community-specific criteria and <br /> weighting factors. <br /> • Final ranking of candidate sites <br /> • Site selection <br /> BOCC Involvements <br /> • Input, review, and approval of <br /> Siting process <br /> Schedule <br /> ± Siting criteria and weighting factors <br /> ± Public participation program <br /> 4- Final candidate sites <br /> ± Final ranking of candidate sites <br /> ± Site selection <br /> Public Participation/Input <br /> • Special public meetings <br /> • Informational literature <br /> • Direct mailings with project updates <br /> • Web site <br /> • County Commission presentations <br /> • Presentations to civic and environmental groups <br /> • Presentations to neighborhood groups <br /> • Community education program and workshops <br /> • Reading files located in libraries or community centers that document process <br /> Exclusionary Criteria <br /> • Wetlands and floodplains <br /> • Endangered and protected flora and fauna habitats <br /> • Protected sites of historical, archeological, or cultural significance <br /> • Parks and preserves <br /> • Major considerations <br /> + Countywide search <br /> + Site size requirements —future use <br /> + Single and/or multiple parcel acquisition <br /> + Freely offered and/or condemnation of property <br /> + Land use, zoning and/or other restrictions such as rural buffer zone <br /> + Critical watersheds <br /> + Site location —jurisdiction <br /> Bob Sallach went through the Transfer Station Siting Schedule. He said that the public <br /> participation events need to be added to this document. <br /> Chair Jacobs said that the Board of County Commissioners does not meet in June or <br /> July, and it seems that this schedule anticipates that there will be meetings in June and July. <br /> Chair Jacobs said that there is a solid waste group that has been meeting to discuss <br /> alternatives for reducing waste is going to come forward with recommendations that may or may <br /> not require a MRF. He asked Solid Waste Gayle Wilson how he was proposing to coordinate <br /> these recommendations with the size of the site that is needed. Gayle Wilson said that the work <br />