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3 district. This is compared to the old 3 -R Fee of $38 per year for Rural Curbside Recycling last approved by the Board for Fiscal 2011/2012. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The Rural Curbside 3 -R fee was $38 in Fiscal 2011/2012 and generated about $506,000 in revenues. The County has already moved to single stream recycling and needs to purchase: 1) up to 14,000 roll carts (estimated at $53.50 each) in Fiscal 2014/15; and 2) two new recycling trucks (estimated at $290,000 each) in current Fiscal Year (due to necessary lead time to acquire) to fully implement the Rural Curbside Recycling program. Staff preliminary budget estimates indicate that it will cost about $630,000 to fund the program in Fiscal 2014/2015, although these estimates will be refined and detailed during the FY 2014/15 budget process. The new District Tax rate will be determined by the total valuation of the proposed district divided by the proposed Fiscal 2014/15 rural curbside recycling budget, currently estimated at 1.5 cents /hundred dollars value. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board move forward with considering the establishment of a Solid Waste and Disposal Service District for Fiscal 2014/15 based on the proposed district delineation (Attachment 3) that includes approximately 15,500 households (including the approximately 13,750 households currently eligible for rural curbside recycling services) by: 1. Discussing potential public hearing(s) on the proposed District establishment and, if inclined, determining the number and locations of public hearing(s) the Board would like staff to pursue scheduling, including whether the public hearings should be separate meetings or occur as part of regular Board meetings (Note — Based on statutory requirements and time constraints associated with a July 1, 2014 implementation, staff believes public hearing(s) will need to occur in late March and early April); 2. Pending outcomes from #1 above, directing staff to bring back proposed public hearing dates, times, and locations to the February 4, 2014 regular Board meeting for approval; 3. Directing staff to move forward with the development of draft Notices of Public Hearing to be finalized after the Board's February 4, 2014 actions and to prepare to mail those Notices to Property Owners within the proposed District by February 14, 2014; 4. Directing staff to complete the required District Report based on the attached Orange County Rural Curbside Recycling Map and place the Report in the Clerk to the Board's office by February 14, 2014; and 5. Planning to make a final decision on the establishment of a proposed District after the potential public hearing(s) and no later than April 15, 2014.