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8 w' ? 8. w In the past few weeks, Draper Aden and Associates, our consulting engineers for our existing landfill, have completed their design for the new landfill area south of Eubanks Road. They have also calculated our remaining useful life on the existing portion of the landfill on the north side of the road. We now believe that the current landfill will last through 2000. This is about 2 - 2.5 years longer than we estimated when we began the search for a new landfill. This extra time is the result of design of the prospective fill area, operating practices on the north side (including the relocation of the University's coal ash from the main fill area of the landfill to a separate fill area), and reduced waste, twastetreductionl w and and bthe h result rather soft both successful local economy over the past few years. to We believe that we will need f rom 5 to 8 ars le d time the complete selection of a site, acquire the property, g n site, receive permits, and have the first cell at a new landfill constructed and ready to receive garbage. 9. Has the idea of movin tlandfillosite' een considered in con unction with locatin a new The Managers' Committee on the Airport, composed of Chapel Hill Town Manager Cal Horton, Carrboro Town Manager Bob Morgan, Orange County Manager John Link, and then Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance of the University of North Carolina Ben Tuchi, made their report to the Coordination and Consultation Committee on May 18, 1992, separate reports were made to the managers' respective governing bodies in subsequent weeks. The Managers' Committee recommends a preliminary dialogue process (see attachment #7,) for exploration of possible options for relocation of air traffic operations from the Horace Williams Airport site. The process would be facilitated by representatives of the Institute for Environmental Negotiations, an independent consultant having no ties to the community. To date, the Chapel Hill Town Council has agreed to partially fund the cost of the proposed work and has appointed two members of the Council as their representatives for participation for trio proposed Chancellor Paul Hardin has stated his support process. The Town of Carrboro has agreed to tallow their further Manager to observe the process and appears participation. The Orange County Commissioners have not concluded their discussions. at is not Whether the proposed process will be lthere tiated no assurancelthat this time. Even if it goes forward, discussion would advance beyond the preliminary stage. One possible outcome would be a Ion thesPrelimin preliminary negotiated ialogue process is would be highly unlikely. successful, the next step, would be to conduct more in -depth