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M A county -wide Solid Waste Tax Service District approach is a more comprehensive and flexible option that would include the Towns and the current Rural Curbside Service Area. A Tax Service District can provide services via County staffing, contracted, optional or mandatory programs or otherwise formulated approaches to both solid waste and recycling services as long as services are delivered and funded on some basis county -wide in the unincorporated areas of the County and can allow one or more towns to opt into the District. The effective date of a new Solid Waste Tax Service District would be July 1, 2014. There is a process to create a Solid Waste Tax Service District that is identical to the process used for the creation of Fire Service Districts completed in the spring of 2013. Schedule and Publish a Notice of Public Hearing: Prior to the Public Hearing, the County must prepare a Report on the district. A copy of the report must be kept in the Clerk's office. The report must contain the following: 1. A map of the proposed district, showing its proposed boundaries; 2. A statement showing that the proposed district meets the standards set out in subsection (a); and 3. A plan for providing one or more of the services listed in G.S. 153A -301 to the district. The Report should also include: 1. The resident or seasonal population and population density of the proposed district. 2. The appraised value of property subject to taxation in the proposed district. 3. The present tax rates of the county and any cities or special districts in which the district or any portion thereof is located. 4. The ability of the proposed district to sustain the additional taxes necessary to provide the services planned for the district. 5. If it is proposed to furnish water, sewer, or solid waste collection services in the district, the probable net revenues of the projects to be financed and the extent to which the services will be self - supporting. 6. Any other matters that the commissioners believe to have a bearing on whether the district should be established Notice of Public Hearing must be mailed (first class prepaid is fine), at least 4 weeks prior to the date of the public hearing, to the "owners as shown by the county tax records as of the preceding January 1 (and at the address shown thereon) of all property located within the proposed district." The preceding January 1 is the January 1 prior to the public hearing. The commissioners designate who handles the mailing. If the towns choose to be included in the district, the BOCC can designate the towns to conduct the mailing to all owners of district properties located within town limits. The Notice of Public Hearing must be published at least one week prior to the public hearing. A map of the service district must be attached to the notice and the resolution. If the Towns authorize the County to collect and charge a fee for recycling within their town limits, as Chapel Hill recently did for areas within its limits located in Durham County, there would be no need to include the towns in the service district. A fee structure similar to what the county has always had could be implemented. Included in the Fiscal 2013 -2014 Annual