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Memorandum To: Barry Jacobs, Chair, Board of Orange County Commissioners Mark Chilton, Mayor, Town of Caiiboro Kevin Foy, Mayor Town of Chapel Hill Tom Stevens, Mayor Town of Hillsborough From: Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Management Director Subject: Interim Report on Development of Solid Waste Management Plan Date: March 15, 2006 cc. Cal Horton, .John Link, Eric Peterson, Steve Stewart, Jan Sassaman Attachments: .3 This memorandum provides an update of the work and meetings of the Solid Waste Plan Work Group from its inception in April 2005 to date. The memo also reviews the information presented to the Work Group and presents a projected schedule and tasks for work yet to be completed. Background Last February, the Board of Orange County Commissioners tasked the Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB) with moving the solid waste planning process forward to develop the next three year update required by the State of North Carolina and also to clarify and create consensus on that plan as a road map for long teen solid waste planning in Orange County. The SWAB's response was to expand into a broader working group for this task. Dubbed the Solid Waste Plan Work Group, it includes the current SWAB membership and Solid Waste Department staff, an elected official and key staff people from each jurisdiction, as well as an additional staff person from UNC. (List of'work group membership Attachment 1). A subsequent staff memo (Attachment 2) introduced a possible schedule through which the Board could receive an updated solid waste plan for submittal to the State by the statutory due date of June 30, 2006 It has become clear due to our rate of progress on this project, as well as the upcoming budget work required by the various elected Boards and their staff, drive a realistic date of completion later into calendar 2006. It is reasonable to say that the three -year, update of the ten -year plan will not occur by June 30, 2006. That delay will allow a more thorough consideration of all the elements of a relatively complex plan by all the jurisdictions and should result in an effective consensus on a plan that moves deliberately towards the County's stated 61 % waste reduction goal. Summary of Meetings The work group began meeting in April 2005 and has met six times: