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7 BRAINSTORM: INTERESTS • Elected officials make all major decisions • Accountability between new entity and citizens and other Boards • Account between decision makers and staff • Resident's near landfill treated fairly • Mission statement implemented (fulfilling as written) and goals • Efficient decision making process • Which allows for consensus if at all possible • Buy-in from four local governments into decisions of entity • Each jurisdiction budgetary integrity and soundness maintained • All elected bodies are part of decision making process • Simple way to dispose of trash • County and Chapel Hill (deep pockets) -fair cost-sharing in all phases across jurisdictions • Costs of disposal - reasonable • Costs of disposal - in proportion to other expenditures • Inclusion of private entities in cost- sharing • Concerns, interests, and priorities other than Chapel Hill in decision making • Account to residents of Chapel Hill who live in Durham County • Decision making reflects financial stake of different parties • Affected employees maintain at least current level of benefits and status • Citizens have easy access to decision making • Can work at regional level • Easy access to understandable decision making • Short-term fiscal decisions have no more weight than long-term environment and social and fiscal • Decision makers open to new developments in technology • Board open to level of service L.O.G. decisions that majority of users would want - responsiveness and account to citizens on L.O.G. • Open to new methods for handling waste • Economic considerations included in decision about waste management, reduce, and recycling • Consideration that all give up something to this - compromise -to get totally integrated solid waste system • No increase in cost • No increase in waste • Involve other bodies which can create costs for taxpayers • New group do mission and goals statement on their own • " Backdoor" if it's not working • Single entity 7