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While only the Board of County Commissioners can declare what the County's policy position is on any given subject, 1 will attempt to articulate what 1 might.suggest that the County Manager recommend to the Board in this regard. The Interlocal Agreement was conceived and developed pursuant to the fundamental principle that all parties to the agreement would pledge their wastes to the waste management system. This founding tenet was significant because wastes delivered to the system's facilities were understood to form the financial basis for all system services/programs. I believe that it is welldocumented in the public record that Orange County would not have agreed to take on responsibility for the entire solid waste system without having a guarantee from its municipal partners that they would ensure that all elements of the waste stream then under their control would continue to flow to the Orange County Landfill. All parties to the Agreement understood this financial reality, which is explicitly articulated in the document. On page 3, Section 2 of the Interlocal Agreement, under the heading "The Parties will deliver Solid Waste and County Recyclables to the System", the Agreement says "The County and the Towns all agree to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to System Management Facilities for disposal or processing, respectively, all Solid Waste and County Recyclables under their respective control. This delivery obligation includes (without limitation) all Solid Waste and County Recyclables collected by any Party's employees, Solid Waste collection contractors, solid waste collection licensees or solid waste collection franchisees. " In view of this provision and the overarching financial realities that led to its inclusion in the agreement, 1 remain confident that all parties to the Agreement will continue to honor their commitment to the County and the other signatories to the Agreement who rely on the revenue generated by the pledges of waste. 3. How much of current fee revenue is dedicated to recycling? For FY 2000101 the total recycling budget (minus overhead)for all of Orange County was$2,049,000. Of this amount over half($1,298,364) is estimated to be the value of both residential and non-residential services provided by the County to the Town of Chapel Hill(based in part on share of the overall County population). Of this nearly $1.3 million in total recycling and waste reduction services provided by the landfill enterprise fund to the Town, it is estimated that non-residential services account for about$888,672. Based on the notion that approximately 113 of MSW revenues are attributable to recycling and waste reduction services, and that the Town's non- residential tipping fee revenue is$568,596, it appears that the Town actually pays about $189,443 for its$888,672 worth of services. While not intended to be a finely honed analysis of the programs, we believe it is a reliable estimate. This being the case, it is apparent that Chapel Hill receives considerably more in recycling services than it contributes in tipping fee revenue. This is possible because of the subsidy provided by the private commercial sector and