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<br />Milestones in Implementation Sequence: <br />• BOCC Approved Budget -- June <br />• Arrange for purchase of loader and trailer -- July <br />• Lease Road-Tractor -- Summer 2008 <br />• Receive Loader and Trailer -- Summer 2008 <br />• Initiate minor modifications to the existing processing pad to allow it to accommodate receipt <br />of commingled containers -- Summer 2008 <br />• Add OCC to Curbside collection and associated PR Campaign --Fa112008 <br />• Re-label and reconfigure collection. containers and haul commingled materials -- Fall 2008 <br />• Implement commingled collection at drop-off sites and commercial programs, including <br />associated PR campaign --Fa112008 <br />• Begin baling source-separated mixed paper --Winter 2008/2009 <br />• Ban CRT disposal -- January-February 2009 <br />• Add new source separated plastic to drop-off site, conduct associated PR Campaign (also <br />• combine news and magazines into one container at this time to gain further collection <br />• efficiencies and space savings at the drop off sites) -- Spring 2009 <br />Recommendation <br />Staff recommends that the Board endorse the relevant budgetary components as described within <br />this report and as will be submitted as a part of the Manger's Proposed FY 2008-09 Solid Waste <br />Departmental Budget Request for the Recycling Division. <br />Endorse the proposed timeline including the foilowrng subcomponents: <br />• Reconfiguration of current recycling processing area to manage and receive commingled <br />containers; <br />• Expand Urban and Rural Curbside Recycling collection to include corrugated cardboard; <br />• Expand drop-off recycling program to include additional source separated plastics; <br />• Change the Commercial and Drop-off recycling programs from source-separated to <br />commingled containers; <br />• Expand the number of commercial recycling sites serviced as capabilities allow and to add <br />the collection of all paper but corrugated cardboard to those commercial sites that are <br />interested in receiving this service and as program resources allow; <br />• Prepare language adding Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) to those items banned from disposal at <br />the Orange County Landfill and expand the abilities of the Electronics Recycling program to <br />manage the resultant materials generated by this disposal ban; and <br />• Develop and implement an effective education and outreach effort to publicize the changes <br />and enhancements to the various recycling program expansions described herein and to <br />execute this plan consistent with program impiernentation. <br />6 <br />