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11 1 2 3 3. Solid Waste Advisory Group (SWAG) Update 4 Mayor Kleinschmidt said the purpose tonight is to receive an update from the advisory 5 group and to take action to extend the SWAG's work. He said there is no recommendation, but 6 they would like to keep working. He said the timeline is designed to be respectful of the four 7 budget processes. 8 Mayor Lavelle said she is one of the representatives from Carrboro. She said there 9 have been 4 meetings to date, and she provided the following list of accomplishments: 10 1. There has been agreement regarding the need for co- ordination of funding and cost 11 decisions and the timing has been identified to allow costs to be included in municipal 12 budgets. 13 2. The group has determined that issues related to Recycling and Construction and 14 Demolition should be dealt with first, and issues regarding Municipal Solid Waste and a 15 transfer station will be dealt with subsequently 16 3. UNC and UNC - Hospital have been integrated into the discussions and the potential for 17 partnering has been discussed, with recognition that this is a longer term project to be 18 undertaken after an agreement on recycling has been reached. 19 4. The fiscal assumptions underlying the Solid Waste Enterprise fund have been explored. 20 5. A markup of the Inter -local Agreement has begun, and the group is working on the third 21 iteration of this. 22 6. The group has agreed to keep meeting over the next several months with a plan to 23 report back to the respective boards in the early spring. 24 25 Town Commissioner Lowen said the group's work is not complete, and they are 26 requesting reauthorization, with the intent of making a recommendation on recycling funding 27 and the Inter -local agreement by the end of March, 2015. 28 Mayor Kleinschmidt said the funding mechanism is the challenge, and this is the core of 29 the conversations. He said the County has been carrying the recycling program, but another 30 solution is needed by June 30th. He said several funding options have been presented to the 31 SWAG and subsequently to the staff of the various jurisdictions for analysis, critique and 32 recommendation. 33 Commissioner Rich said the first quarter of monitoring since the roll carts has been 34 phenomenal. She said the overall single stream tonnage has increased by 324 tons since the 35 first quarter of last fiscal year. She reviewed the following monitoring information: 36 37 e High Performing Programs 38 o Urban Curbside Collection — 29% increase 39 o Government Building Collections — 15% increase 40 o Recycling Collection from Convenience Centers — 19% increase 41 e Other Programs of Interest 42 o Multi - Family — 5% decrease 43 o Rural Curbside— 3% decrease 44 e Shred -a -Thou Success — Two Fall Events (University Mall and Hampton Pointe) 45 o Over 880 participants 46 o 19 tons shredded and recycled 47 48 Chair Jacobs said the group knows there is a charge for short and long term goals, and 49 they will try and get through as much as possible before coming back to the boards in the