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Attacluirent 2 Memorandum To: Solid Waste Plan Work Group From: Jan Sassaman, SWAB Chair Subject: Decision Points Questionnaire Date: February 28, 2006 Attached is a questionnaire that I requested the staff prepare to define and detail some of the decisions that must be made to move forward in development of a comprehensive, integrated solid waste management plan. The plan for using this questionnaire is that all Solid Waste Plan Work Group members will complete it, electronically if possible, and return it to staff with any additional comments by March 23. The completed questionnaires will form the basis for the April Solid Waste Plan Work Group meeting to further develop its ideas, positions and possible consensus on these decision points as well as other decision points that may arise through discussion and further comment from the Work Group. In your response please indicate what dates in April and May you are available for meetings exclude week of April 3-7. We expect completion of a technical report on primarily the recycling portion of the County's scope of work due at the end of April. We expect to schedule a presentation of that work in May for the Solid Waste Plan Work Group, Once you receive the report, you will, at the subsequent Work Group meeting, have an opportunity to reconsider the responses to the questionnaire in light of data presented in the report. We realize that some of the questions are better answered with data the technical report in hand, while some, such as developing ranking preferences, may be better made before the data are presented. Feel free to answer all or some of the questions this first time as a way to express initial preferences; once you get data you may change your mind on some of them. Group consensus may shift. You may choose to not answer those that are more data - driven until you get the data; that's fine too. There is a lot of indecision right now, as no data on projected program performance has been presented, eg, single stream v, dual stream cart v bin. Use of the decision points tool is a two -step process. The first iteration allows representatives of the various entities to express what they want at this point and to a certain extent, we will use that to push against the recycling technical analysis. Then we'll do a second iteration once the data are in and come to consensus about the system we recommend. It will be important for all jurisdictions to express their preferences particularly in the part VII B of the questionnaire that pertains specifically to them. Work group members from outside the particular jurisdiction may express their preferences for solid waste management techniques in communities other than their own, but the opinions of those representing that jurisdiction will have most importance. The exception to this is that all members are able to comment on solid waste management needs for the unincorporated area because all are residents of Orange County and all pay taxes to support the current system of convenience centers. Please respond to the questionnaire along with any comments you may have on it, preferably electronically, and return to Blair Pollock of the staff by March 23 so he can prepare a summary of responses for presentation at the as yet unscheduled Solid Waste Plan Work Group meeting to be held in April.