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25 1396 To: Board of Commissioners County Manager Margaret Brown RE: Waste Summit TT-November 13 gist&I met with randy Sachs(Franck was ario-show)Friday to discuss the azenda for the November 13 meeting. The meeting announcement 'indicates that the meeting will start at 6pm at the Homestead Center. Because food will be served, the meeting will probably not actually get underway until about 6:30,or as soon as Moses can call the meeting to order and turn it over to Andy. The first item will be getting the buy-in on the goal of the meeting, identifying key e;-ments and sequence for moving ahead on a management entity for Orange County's solid waste. Key elements for Jacquie are: I- meeting with residents to develop compensation plan 2. preparation of ISWiIv[P with meuris of achieving 50%waste reduction 3. site selection 4. selection of operator(management entity) Developing the ISWIvfp may take a year. I think it is unacceptable to delay selection of the management entity until completion of the Plan. Meeting with the residents before site selection sounds like trouble,but the attorneys have been asked to respond to LOG on that. Unfortunately,Franck was not at the meeting so we were not able to discuss Chapel Hill's proposal. They will likely want to steer the discussion to their policy-making,decision-making board proposal. It is my perception that all of the governing boards would like to see a decision made on November 13 that establishes a direction for solid waste management in OC. Realistically, because of the contrasting positions of Carrboro and Chapel Iffil.1,I think a reasonable outcome would be to, in principle,designate OC as the lead agency for solid waste management. To assuage fears and provide a focus for detailed negotiations,the attached Principles for Establishing an Orange County Solid Waste Management Entity may be useful. If OC is designated, in principle,then the next steps might be: 1. Request managers to begin working on a transition plan for July 1, 1997 implementation. 2. Request each Board to appoint(or re-appoint)2 members to OCSWMC,effective Ian 1, 1997. I Request OCSWMC to give priority to development of an ISWNIP with monthly updates/sign-off by each governing board- 4. Request BoCC to act on June 19, 1996 public hearing and select site for future solid waste management activities. 5. Request OCSWZvIC to conduct a facilitated meeting with residents near the selected site to discuss fair and just compensation,unless the County Attorney approves a meeting with OC-17 neighbors prior to site selection. Feedback on the next steps prior to Nov 13 would be appreciated. Thanks.