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Michael Talbert said this can be brought forward on the 17tn Commissioner Gordon asked how the agreement with the towns will be handled. Michael Talbert said the next agenda item will determine that. He said the towns are currently planning to pay for urban curbside by levying a fee of$59 per resident that the County will collect. He said the County will administer the program, but the town has to levy the fee. Commissioner Gordon asked if an agreement or contract is needed for this. Michael Talbert said this program has operated without an agreement this past year, and all that is changing is the addition of a fee. He said ideally there would be an agreement, but there is not one. He said the County either moves forward with the assumption of going with this or other options can be considered in item 7f. Chair Jacobs noted that the County chose to invest in the roll carts without an agreement, but with an understanding that things were moving toward an interlocal agreement, and there was general support from the managers of the other governments. John Roberts said the old solid waste agreement is technically still effective for recycling. He said recycling was not detailed in the agreement, and the only part of the old agreement that is no longer effective is dealing with the landfill and municipal solid waste issues. He said there hasn't been any kind of detailed agreement between the County and towns regarding recycling for the length of time that the prior agreement has been in place. Commissioner Gordon asked that staff be directed to research this issue and provide some advice at the meeting on the 17th regarding what would be necessary to do the subset. f. Fundinq for Oranqe County's Rural Curbside Recyclinq Proqrams The Board considered approving a funding source for Orange County's Rural Curbside Recycling Program. Michael Talbert said this was last discussed on May 14, and direction was provided to staff to come back with 3 options. He said the Board confirmed their desire to continue the recycling in the rural curbside program for the existing 13,700 customers for the next year. He said the Chair/Vice chair wanted to add another option, which is listed as option 2 in the abstract. He reviewed the following 4 options as outlined in the abstract: 1. Fund Rural Curbside Recycling Program for Fiscal 2014/2015 with Landfill Reserves. To fund $728,260 from Solid Waste Unrestricted Reserves which were $3,082,630 as of June 30, 2013. 2. Fund Rural and Urban Curbside Recycling Programs for Fiscal 2014/2015 with Landfill Reserves. To fund $2,090,526 from Solid Waste Unrestricted Reserves which were $3,082,630 as of June 30, 2013. 3. Eliminate all Recycling and Convenience Center fees and raise the County's property tax rate. To replace all revenues from fees would equal $6,049,228 and require a property tax increase of 3.77 cents. 4. Increase the Solid Waste Convenience Center fees to cover all or part of the $1,856,543 transfer from the General Fund to Solid Waste to fund Convenience