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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 13, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~__ <br />SUBJECT• Solid Waste Operations Center Design -Neighborhood Meeting Follow-up <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management Pt1B~IC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Neighborhood Meeting Agenda <br />INFORMATION CANTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Director, <br />(919)968-2885 <br />PURPOSE: To receive information about the May 31, 2006 Neighborhood Meeting regarding <br />the design of the proposed Solid Waste Operations Center and to consider endorsing a timeline <br />for the architect to proceed with completion of detailed design and construction documents, <br />BACKGROUND: At the April 18, 2006 BOCC meeting, the architects for the planned Solid <br />Waste Operations Center on Eubanks Road responded to earlier BOCC inquiries by presenting <br />information regarding assessing energy exchange loss of the current design configuration <br />compared to a mare compact design with less exterior wall space, Following this presentation, <br />the BOCC formally approved the conceptual design and instructed staff to proceed with a <br />landfill community meeting to elicit input from the project neighborhood, and then to report back <br />to the Board on feedback received, As noted in the attached agenda, a neighborhood meeting <br />was held on May 31, 2006 at Southern Human Services Center. <br />The meeting was publicized by sending packets of meeting notices by direct mail to the twelve <br />members of the longstanding t_andfill Neighborhood Contact Group, by the two members of the <br />SWAB that live in the area (Norwood and Bowerman), and by contacting representatives of <br />Larkspur, Fox Meadow and Northwoods neighborhoods, There were no citizens in attendance <br />at the information meeting. <br />Given that several staff and SWAB members were present, the meeting proceeded as originally <br />planned. Following a presentation by Dixon/Weinstein Architects Ken Friedlein and Jim <br />Compton, numerous questions were posed by those in attendance and answered by the <br />architects or staff, including: <br />type of building materials to be use and where in the structure they would be used <br />the effect of the preferred materials on cost <br />have the parcels been combined <br />• how many people will the meeting room hold and how does it compare to the Southern <br />Human Services large room <br />does not having public water/sewer impact the capacity of the meeting room <br />how will summertime solar gain be handled <br />will the windows be operable <br />