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2 <br />1 1. Solid Waste Program Fee Options Recommendation — Solid Waste Advisory <br />2 Group <br />3 Commissioner Jacobs said the Solid Waste Advisory Group (SWAG) has been meeting <br />4 since August of 2014, and he asked the members to acknowledge themselves by raising their <br />5 hands. <br />6 Commissioner Jacobs said there has been good joint participation by staffs. He said <br />7 work has been done on basic agreements, and there has been discussion about the fees for <br />8 basic recycling. He said everyone agreed to do things in a way that would make it easy for all <br />9 of the governments to budget for this coming fiscal year with regard to any fees. <br />10 Commissioner Jacobs said the group started out with four staff proposals for possible <br />11 fees for the recycling program, and then this was reduced down to two options. He introduced <br />12 Gayle Wilson to review these choices. <br />13 Gayle Wilson said option 1 and option 2 are similar in that the revenue requirements are <br />14 the same, but are achieved in a slightly different way. <br />15 He reviewed the following information from the abstract attachments regarding the two <br />16 options: <br />17 <br />18 Option 1 is a two part annual fee; One Comprehensive Solid Waste Program Fee for all <br />19 Municipal Units - $94 /year (based on FY 14/15 budget revenue requirement), and One <br />20 Comprehensive Solid Waste Program Fee for all Rural units - $118 /year (based on FY 14/15 <br />21 budget revenue requirement). <br />22 Option 1 would establish an urban fee and a rural fee that would be applied to each developed <br />23 property and multi - family units throughout the county, including tax exempt properties, except <br />24 for UNC -CH properties that are served by the University's separate recycling program. Option 1 <br />25 would incorporate an approximate 33% solid waste convenience center costs into the urban fee <br />26 component and an approximate 66% solid waste convenience center costs into the Rural fee <br />27 component. <br />28 <br />29 Option One: <br />30 e Simplified fee structure <br />31 e Easy to administer, manage, and explain <br />32 e Includes phased expansion of rural curbside service, increasing recycling and waste <br />33 reduction rate <br />34 e Flexibility in providing services without being constrained by rigid categories <br />35 e Example: If a business is located on a residential route (urban or rural) and generates <br />36 recyclables in quantities similar to a residence, it can be assigned to a residential route <br />37 without concern that there is not an appropriate fee category. <br />38 <br />39 Key Factors <br />40 • Rural curbside service is proposed to be phased in to entire unincorporated area over three <br />41 year period, equalizing services by the fourth year. The rural fee will increase incrementally over <br />42 phasing period. <br />43 • Efforts to provide more equitable services among all the program users could be implemented <br />44 over time by improving service efficiencies and availability of services. <br />45 • Single family, multi - family and developed non - residential property owners in the rural sector <br />46 pay $24 more than property owners in the urban sector. <br />47 <br />48 Option 2 is a Single Comprehensive Fee - $103 /year (based on FY -14/15 budget revenue <br />49 requirement) that would be applied equally to all developed properties and multi - family units <br />50 throughout the county, including tax exempt properties, except for UNC -CH properties that are <br />