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{ • 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 30, 1997 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Amendments to Orange Regional Landfill Tipping Fee Schedule DEPARTMENT: Public Works PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/1S) BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/1) ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 5/15/97 Memo from LOG Chair Wilbert McAdoo, ext 2625 5/30/97 Memo from LOG Chair 6/23/97 Memo from CH Town Manager TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider changes to the landfill tipping fee schedule to take effect July 1, 1997. BACKGROUND: At their June 5, 1997 work session, the Board discussed, but elected to postpone action on, proposed amendments to the landfill tipping fee schedule for FY 1997-98. The rationales for the Landfill Owners' Group's and Chapel Hill Town Manager's tipping fee recommendations are laid out in May 15 and May 30 memos from the LOG Chair. Since that time, the attorneys for the Towns and County have identified potential problems with the proposed imposition of a surcharge on building permit fees to raise revenue to pay for construction and demolition(C & D)waste reduction efforts. The Chapel Hill Town Manager has recommended that the revenue needed to implement the C & D reduction efforts be derived from increasing the C & D tipping fee from $33 per ton to $35 per ton,effective July 1, 1997. The rationale for this is fizrther explained in a June 23 memo to the Chapel Hill Town Council from the Town Manager. The other proposed fee increases for 1997-98 (to $35 per ton for mixed solid waste and $12 per ton for yard waste and clean wood waste) are unchanged from what the Board of Commissioners considered at their June 5 work session. Under terms of the 1972 landfill agreement between Orange County and the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, all fees must be approved by each of the three boards. If all three boards do not agree on a change to a particular fee, that fee remains unchanged. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve tipping fees of $35.00 per ton for mixed solid waste, $35.00 per ton for construction and demolition materials, and $12.00 per ton for yard waste and clean wood waste,with all fee changes to take effect July 1, 1997.