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reduction goal. While staff believes plan development must be an iterative process, it is also useful to try to clarify at least generally, procedural and substantive steps in moving forward. Technical Assistance and Anal The staff has engaged its Departmental engineering consultant, Olver, Inc and their subcontractor Resource Recycling Systems Incorporated, to assist in technical aspects of the analysis of recycling collection and processing options, The collection options will compare dual stream to single stream collection in each of the three sectors — residential, multifamily and commercial - along with corollary issues of types of containers and automated to semi - automated collection. There will be a specific analysis of public v. franchised collection options for the commercial sector, as this is the least developed part of the County's recycling program. This analysis will be combined with an analysis of potential processing for recyclable materials — how much does it cost and what are the pros and cons of processing materials in- County with a County -owned and /or controlled facility compared to sending materials out to be processed by other private processors. Other possible work by staff Other important elements of the overall plan will continue to be worked on by staff at the direction of the Work Group including: • whether and how to include PAYT or mandatory recycling in the planning process, • franchising solid waste collection, particularly in unincorporated areas, • franchising solid waste collection in some or all.jurisdietions for non- residential waste, • multiple, jurisdictions working together to franchise waste and /or recycling services, • the future of drop -off sites and solid waste convenience centers wider changed solid waste and recycling collection options, • financing of the solid waste system, • soliciting and compiling public input. NOTE: Where we address franchising issues above, it is important to point out that in the upcoming legislative short session of the North Carolina General Assembly, Senate Bill 951, could be adopted. This bill would require local governments to pay any private haulers collecting waste or recyclables in areas in which they were considering collecting waste or recyclables beginning as soon as .July 1, 2006. Adoption of this bill as written, would require immediate action by Orange County and the Towns, outside the solid waste planning process considered below, to ensure passage of a local franchising ordinance which would preserve local governments' flexibility to franchise or outright collect waste and recycling without pre - paying private haulers who might already be working within the jurisdiction. Schedule and Process The staff has prepared a survey of decision points (attachment 3) that will provide the building blocks for development of a solid waste management system. The first iteration of the decision points survey will be completed without analytical data. Once data from the technical analyses are available to help the Work Group inform their decisions and ranked preferences for types of collection and processing, then they can begin development of a first draft of a system, 4