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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8—k <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 4, 1996 <br /> SUBJECT: Landfill Tipping Fee Revisions <br /> DEPARTMENT: Public Works PUBLIC HEARING: YES: NO: X <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT: YES: NO: X <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 10/23/96 Memo from County/Town Managers Wilbert McAdoo, ext 2625 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough -732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill -968-4501 <br /> Durham -688-7331 <br /> Mebane -227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE:. To approve a change to the tipping fee schedule for solid waste disposal at the Orange <br /> Regional Landfill. <br /> BACKGROUND: During recent years,the Orange Regional Landfill has typically received for <br /> disposal over 30,000 tons of coal ash from the UNC Power Plant annually. A sizable portion of the <br /> Landfill's annual revenue stream has been derived from this disposal arrangement. Recently, UNC has <br /> reached agreement with another operator to receive its coal ash, beginning January 1, 1997. <br /> The Landfill Fund, administered by the Town of Chapel Hill on behalf of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and <br /> Orange County, expects a revenue shortfall of approximately $357,000 for FY 1996-97 as a result of <br /> UNC's no longer delivering coal ash for disposal. The attached memorandum provides additional <br /> background on this situation, and the recommendations from the County and Town Managers to the <br /> Landfill Owners' Group(LOG)about how to compensate for the anticipated shortfall. <br /> At its meeting on October 23, 1996, the LOG approved a recommendation to the three owning <br /> governing boards that this shortfall be addressed by the following combination of approaches: 1) use <br /> of$235,000 in undesignated Landfill fund balance; 2) savings of$17,000 by eliminating publication <br /> of the Spring 1997 issue of the WasteLines newsletter; and 3) additional revenue of$105,000 that <br /> would be generated by a$2.00 per ton increase in the tipping fees for mixed solid waste and <br /> construction& demolition debris, effective December 1, 1996. If approved,these fees would increase <br /> from$31.00 to $33.00 per ton. <br />