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' 48% The revenue base for Orange County's Solid Waste management operation has changed substantially from the last three-year update submitted in 2003. In 2003-04, the County passed a 3-R fee (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) to finance most of the recycling programs and limit dependence on landfill tipping fee revenues to finance recycling along with its primary objective of financing the landfill operation. This fee is levied on all improved properties, including non-profit facilities, in Orange County at levels that vary in accordance generally with the types of services available to that property. The fee is included on the annual property tax bill. Government agencies, the school system and the Orange Water and Sewer Utility receive special individualized assessments for services provided at all their properties. The U, R, and M fees are levied where applicable, in addition to the B fee below. For example an urban single-family house gets B ($37)+ U ($44) fees annually to cover its basic recycling and weekly curbside collection. The fees are as follows: Table ES-2 .Annual 3-R Fees iin Oran a Coun 2007 Fee Type Fee amount Comments Basic Fee (B) $37 Levied on all improved properties including non-profits and those within Chapel Hill limits, but in Durham County. Urban curbside (CT) $44 Weekly curbside residential recycling Rural curbside (R) $26 Bi-weekly curbside residential recycling Multi Family $19 Fee levied on each unit in coin lex The attached budget document in Chapter 1 details the funding, revenue and expenses for the Solid Waste Management Department in 2006-07. Changes in the Solid Waste ManagLement Plan for MSW Reduction Development of the Integrated Solid Waste management plan The focus of developing the recycling and waste reduction element of the County's integrated solid waste management plan has shifted from primarily a question of whether or not to build its own materials recovery facility (IVIlZF) as the basis for planning future solid waste reduction strategies to a broader, but more incremental approach to the County's achievement of its sixty-one percent waste reduction goal. In 2005, to get the planning process energized for the three year update and to revisit the concepts of how to reach the stated 61 % goal, the County and the Towns initiated a solid waste planning process by forming a Solid Waste Plan Work Group that included an elected official from each of the four jurisdictions, key members of their solid waste and sanitation collection staffs and the full membership of the County-wide Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB). That work group using the technical advisory services of Resource Recycling Systems Inc (RRSI) represented primarily by and Jeremy O'Brien 4