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• to recommend to the LOG a site or sites- for the next landfill • to attend all meetings of the LSC and remain involved throughout the site search process From the final recommended site (s) , the LOG would select one site and recommend its purchase to the elected officials of the three governing boards . The three governments of the LOG would then approve the site and pursue its acquisition and rezoning for a landfill. The Landfill Search Committee has held 29 meetings since April 1990, all open to the public and announced in advance. Six of these meetings were public input meetings which were announced with paid advertising that encouraged the public to attend, ask questions and offer additional information. In 1991, the LSC was given windshield tours of the original 16 sites, a walkover of the Greene Tract (OC-3) and a tour of the existing landfill. The delay between the June 24, 1992, meeting and the March 8, 1995, meeting, was due to the Owners Group' s need to gain authorization from the property owners and, in some cases, the elected boards to allow Joyce Engineering and Bain Palmer & Associates to conduct the on-site geotechnical investigations and subsequently conducting the investigations . On February 24, 1995, Joyce Engineering, Inc. issued the "Report of Preliminary Engineering Evaluations" which presented their evaluation of the regulatory and technical issues related to the four final sites selected by the LSC. No "fatal flaws" were found at any of the four sites . A recommended order of preference based on the technical and regulatory issues was presented as follows : OC-17, OC-2, OC-9 and OC-11. Four meetings of the LSC were held in March and April, 1995 so that the technical issues could be presented by the consultants and citizen comments could be received. The LSC voted in the meeting of April 27, 1995 to recommend to the Owners Group site OC-17 and to remove the other three sites from the list of potential sites. The LOG sponsored a public hearing on September 28, 1995 to receive comments on the final four sites under consideration in preparation for making it' s final recommendation to the governing boards . On October 19, 1995, the Owners Group considered a staff report which requested that a final landfill site be decided and that a recommendation be presented to the governing boards. Discussions were to be continued until a decision was finalized. At the November 16 meeting, an Owners Group majority favored recommending some portion of site OC-17 as the site of the next landfill . The Owners Group also proposed a set of principles related to the selection, including setting a waste reduction goal