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Memorandum <br />To: Laura Blackmon, County Manager <br />From: Gayle Wilson, Director, Solid Waste Management <br />Subject: Next Steps for Advancing the Interim Solid Waste Management Plan <br />Date: April 4, 2008 <br />Attachments: 2 <br />'This memorandum requests that the Board of Orange County Commissioners accept for <br />review the interim solid waste plan submittal and authorize the public meeting for <br />comments on the plan to beheld May 1 as part of the regularly scheduled Solid Waste <br />Advisory Board's monthly meeting. <br />Background <br />On December 3, 2007 the Board of Commissioners received a report (attached) from staff <br />recommending a process for proceeding to get the interim solid waste management plan <br />(attached) approved. As there was no objection from the Board at its December 3 <br />meeting on the recommended process, staff prepared a draft of the plan and presented it <br />to the Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB) on Apri13. The SWAB approved the draft <br />plan with some modifications that are incorporated into the attached version and is <br />prepared, if requested, to host the required public meeting on the plan as part of its <br />regularly scheduled May meeting, currently set for Thursday May 1, 7pm at the Orange <br />County Government Services Center. <br />Per the December 3 report proposed protocol, following receipt and incorporation of <br />comments at the public meeting, the plan would be presented to each of the three Town <br />boards for their review. Once Town Boards' comments were incorporated, the finalized <br />draft of the interim plan would be presented to the BOCC for its consideration, comment, <br />revisions and approval. Following that, the plan would be submitted to the State. That <br />submittal would bring the County into compliance with the state statute requiring athree- <br />year update of the ten year solid waste management plan. Ours was due June 30, 2006, <br />thus it will be about two years late if we follow this timetable and can get on all the Town <br />meeting calendars throughout May. <br />Discussion <br /> <br />As this is an interim submittal that is primarily descriptive of the planning process to <br />date, rather than prescriptive, we do not believe it will be highly controversial. The <br />ongoing solid waste planning process that includes decisions on: <br />