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' 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 21, 1997 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. _C <br /> SUBJECT: Solid Waste Management Interlocal Agreement <br /> DEPARTMENT: Manager/Attorney/Public Works PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) R, <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/N) <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): <br /> LOG/Landfill Neighbors Report on Benefits INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 10/16/97 County Attorney Letter Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br /> 10/15/97 Planning Staff Memo Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br /> County Staff Review of Proposed Benefits <br /> (under separate cover) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> 10/13/97 CH Staff Memo on Proposed Benefits Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Consolidated Calendar for Board Actions Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Proposed Interlocal Agreement (under separate Durham 688-7331 <br /> cover) Mebane 227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To discuss the proposed interlocal agreement on solid waste management that would <br /> transfer primary responsibility for solid waste management and landfill operations from the Town of <br /> Chapel Hill to Orange County. <br /> BACKGROUND: At their meeting on October 6, 1997, the Board of Commissioners discussed a <br /> number of solid waste management issues,including a schedule for discussions, and ultimately, <br /> decisions, on several outstanding issues leading up to approval of an interlocal agreement with <br /> Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough that would have Orange County take the primary <br /> responsibility for overall solid waste management and landfill operations. Discussions were <br /> scheduled for the October 21 meeting on approval of substantially the final form of the interlocal <br /> agreement, and a list of community benefits developed in a series of meetings during the past few <br /> months between Landfill Owners' Group(LOG)representatives and residents of the neighborhoods <br /> around the Eubanks Road Landfill <br /> At the October 6 meeting, the Board asked the Manager and Attorney to prepare analyses of the <br /> legal, financial, and planning implications of the proposed list of community benefits. The County <br /> Attorney and Planning staff have prepared the attached memos regarding legal and planning issues; <br /> Chapel Hill town staff have likewise prepared a memo which reflects their perspectives on some of <br /> the legal and financial implications of the proposed benefits list. It is important to note that detailed <br /> analyses of the most monetarily significant benefits-those dealing with provision of water and <br /> sewer service - are not expected to be ready until early in the week of October 20. OWASA has <br /> retained an outside consultant to provide detailed cost estimates of those benefits, and will provide <br /> that information to the County and Towns as soon as the consultant's work has been completed, and <br />