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Reserves for Fiscal 2014/15. The Board let stand the Manager Recommendation to fund the Urban Curbside and Multi-family ($1,362,266) from an annual 3-R Fee of$59/unit and $19/unit respectively. Subsequently, the Mayors of Carrboro and Chapel Hill requested that the BOCC decision be reconsidered at tonight's budget work session. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The budget to fund the Urban Curbside and Multi-family Recycling programs from solid waste reserves would be an additional $1,362,266. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board reaffirm the June 3, 2014 decision to fund only the Rural Curbside Recycling program from solid waste reserves in the amount of$728,260. Michael Talbert said there has been a lot of discussion about this item, and the towns have requested that the Board re-consider its position and look at the options again. He said the items in front of the Commissioners include tonight's abstract, as well as the abstract from June 3. He reviewed the following 4 options, which were previously discussed: 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 Center Operations Michael Talbert said the towns are asking the Board to consider option number 2, which funds urban and rural curbside together. Chair Jacobs noted that the Board discussed all of these items at some time in the past but voted for option 1. He said the mayors of the town were disappointed that the Board did not choose option 2, as a matter of fairness to those in the municipalities who had contributed to the solid waste enterprise fund. Commissioner Rich made a motion, seconded by Chair Jacobs to vote for option 2: Fund Rural and Urban Curbside Recycling programs for Fiscal Year 2014/15 with Landfill Reserves. Commissioner McKee asked the manager to explain the technical aspects and problems that may be encountered by imposing a fee on the current rural recycling customers. Michael Talbert said the whole district covers about 13,000 households, and the participation is about 57 to 60 percent. He asked if Commissioner McKee was talking about