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• construction and demolition waste; <br />• assuring long -term partnership of the entities involved through an interlocal agreement <br />on waste handling and disposal; <br />• addressing equitable funding and mechanisms for establishing fees and making future <br />joint decisions; <br />• future use of closed landfill sites; <br />• investigation of partnership possibilities involving neighboring jurisdictions; <br />• feasibility of innovative and cost - effective, environmentally -sound methods of disposal <br />of solid waste beyond burial; <br />• potential inclusion of biosolids in long -range disposal plans; <br />• emergency storm debris planning <br />• treatment of communities impacted by siting of any facilities either within Orange <br />County or beyond its borders to receive shipments of waste. <br />An interim report from the SWAG would be scheduled for the November 20, 2014 Assembly of <br />Governments meeting. At that time short -term and long -term policy objectives and preliminary <br />options and considerations would be articulated. Approval would be sought at that meeting to <br />proceed on a course and within a reasonable timeframe agreed upon by the parties involved. <br />Plans would coordinate with each government's budget process. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: To be determined. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends the Board: <br />1) consider creating a multijurisdictional task force of one year's duration to articulate, <br />investigate, and propose collaborative solutions for solid waste issues confronting <br />Orange County; the towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough; and the University <br />of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; <br />2) plan to make BOCC appointments to the task force at the Board's June 17, 2014 regular <br />meeting; and <br />3) solicit other representatives from the other jurisdictions, the University and the public <br />over the summer break. <br />