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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 8, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Solid Waste Matters <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management/ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />County Manager <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />As noted in "Background" section <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 <br />Rod Visser, 245-2308 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 9684501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To conduct a joint work session with members of the Solid Waste Advisory Board <br />(SWAB). <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Board of Commissioners Comments/Questions: The first section of the meeting agenda is <br />slated for individual Commissioner comments and questions for the Solid Waste Advisory Board <br />and staff, particularly with regard to any items that may not be listed for discussion elsewhere on <br />this work session agenda. <br />No Attachments <br />BOCC Requested Updates: Staff will provide verbal updates and/or review attached <br />background materials regarding several solid waste topics of current interest to the Board of <br />Commissioners. <br />Eubanks Road Master Plan; Staff will briefly review the major facilities and operations, existing <br />and planned, as laid out in the Eubanks Road Solid Waste Facilities Master Plan approved by <br />the BOCC in October 2001. Elements of the plan to be covered include as a minimum: <br />• design and construction of the new Solid Waste Operations Center that will need to take <br />place later this year (the current solid waste offices must be vacated by the end of 2006, <br />when the Town of Chapel Hill's lease for the property on which those offices are situated <br />expires); <br />• interest in developing some type of retail recycling facility at or in the vicinity of Eubanks <br />Road;