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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 21, 1992 <br />SUBJECT: LOG Update <br />DEPARTMENT County Manager PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X <br />ATTACHMENTS) INFORMATION -- -- INFORMATION CONTACT <br />None Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a report on discussions at the April 15 meeting of <br />the Landfill Owners Group. <br />BACKGROUND: The Landfill Owners' Group met on Wednesday, April 15 to <br />discuss a number of topics. This was the first LOG meeting in which <br />Hillsborough Mayor Horace Johnson and Town Manager Eric Swanson <br />participated. The most significant discussion surrounded issues <br />affecting the 1992 -93 landfill budget. <br />At the April 1 LOG meeting, the LOG had agreed to have each member <br />solicit comments from their respective boards about the matter of <br />accepting UNC ash at the landfill for $13 per ton in 1992 -93. At -the <br />April 15 meeting, each member reported back to the LOG with comments <br />from the full boards. After discussion, the LOG by consensus approved <br />the $13 /ton tipping fee for UNC ash and in keeping with past <br />procedures, asked each of the three governing boards to take action to <br />formally consider approval of the tipping fee. The LOG also agreed to <br />raise the tipping fee for general waste by $1, to $22 per ton. <br />Revenues from the tipping fee increase are intended to fund <br />enhancements to the countywide recycling program in 1992 -93. Staff <br />will develop a proposed program of enhancements that will include most <br />or all of the following components: rural curbside recycling, curbside <br />recycling of tin cans and plastic bottles, increased apartment <br />recycling, additional commercial cardboard recycling, and waste oil and <br />pesticide recycling. <br />The LOG plans to approve the landfill budget sometime in May, following <br />action by each of the three governing boards to approve recommended <br />changes to the tipping fee schedule. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board receive the <br />report for information only. <br />