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086 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. ( . <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: JUNE 6, 1988 <br /> SUBJECT: ORANGE REGIONAL LANDFILL TIPPING FEES <br /> DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S <br /> YES <br /> OFFICE,X501 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a request from the Town of Chapel Hill, Adminis- <br /> trator of the Orange Regional Landfill, to establish a new <br /> schedule of tipping fees beginning July 1, 1988. <br /> BACKGROUND: Since the beginning of the joint partnership., the tipping fee <br /> has been used to finance the cost and maintenance of the opera- <br /> tions. The reserve from the tipping fees has been used to <br /> purchase land, equipment, etc. The tipping fees for garbage <br /> and refuse started out at three dollars per ton and increased <br /> to four dollars at present. Cost for rubble such as construc- <br /> tion debris and bulk material is now six dollars. <br /> The new suggested tipping fee is ten dollars per ton for <br /> garbage and refuse and twelve for ruble and bulk. Added cost <br /> for liners, equipment purchase using a sinking fund method, <br /> expanded recycling program, engineering cost, treatment of <br /> leachate collection, equipment for power plant ash disposal <br /> and resource recovery are reasons for the tipping fee <br /> increase. <br /> Please refer to the attached letter from David Taylor for <br /> explanation of increasing fees. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S) : <br /> The Manager recommends approval of this new fee schedule. <br />