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NO PUBLIC COMMENT A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Gordon to add the following items to their legislative agenda: RESOLUTION REQUESTING LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON COAL ASH IN N.C. VOTE: UNANIMOUS A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Gordon to add the following item to the legislative agenda: proposed legislation authorizing counties to require county residents to participate in solid waste collection programs conducted by counties. Commissioner Pelissier said NCACC staff is considering whether or not this has to be a public bill. She said the County's original intent was to make it a local bill. John Roberts said he was told this had to be submitted as a statewide bill. He cannot say this is 100 percent accurate, but it would have a better chance of getting passed as a local bill. Commissioner Pelissier suggested that the Board could find out the answer to this question. She said it would be best if this was a local bill rather than state bill. Chair Jacobs said this can be discussed at the upcoming meeting with the legislative delegation. Commissioner Dorosin said he is not going to vote to include this because he believes the County has this authority under the existing legislation. He asked that this one item be voted on separately. Commissioner McKee said he would consider this as friendly amendment. Commissioner Gordon questioned how this would work if the Commissioners vote to pass it as part of packet, versus separately. She asked if the packet as a whole will be given to the legislative delegation. Chair Jacobs said these are the County's priorities, and the NCACC priorities are only attached for reference. Commissioner Gordon asked if everything but attachment 3 would be included. Chair Jacob said page 17 is noted to be only for reference purposes. Commissioner Gordon confirmed that the packet ends at page 16. Greg Wilder noted that Commissioner McKee has voted against option 1 in past years, and in the adopting resolution approved by the Board, separate votes on separate items have been noted. He said this will be part of the package. Commissioner Dorosin withdrew his friendly amendment. Commissioner Price said this is titled as solid waste, and she asked if this is actually about recycling. Chair Jacobs read the language and said this is just part of the nomenclature. He said the Board can give this a different title that specifies "participation in solid waste programs as it relates to recycling." VOTE: Ayes, 5 (Chair Jacobs, Commissioner McKee, Commissioner Rich, Commissioner Gordon, and Commissioner Pelissier); Nays, 2 (Commissioner Dorosin and Commissioner Price)