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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 8, 2005 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Solid Waste Matters DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management/ PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No County Manager ATTACHMENT(S): As noted in "Background" section INFORMATION CONTACT: Gayle Wilson, 968 -2885 Rod Visser, 245 -2308 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732 -8181 Chapel Hill 968 -4501 Durham 688 -7331 Mebane 336- 227 -2031 PURPOSE: To conduct a joint work session with members of the Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB). BACKGROUND: Board of Commissioners Comments /Questions: The first section of the meeting agenda is slated for individual Commissioner comments and questions for the Solid Waste Advisory Board and staff, particularly with regard to any items that may not be listed for discussion elsewhere on this work session agenda. No Attachments BOCC Requested Updates: Staff will provide verbal updates and /or review attached background materials regarding several solid waste topics of current interest to the Board of Commissioners. Eubanks Road Master Plan: Staff will briefly review the major facilities and operations, existing and planned, as laid out in the Eubanks Road Solid Waste Facilities Master Plan approved by the BOCC in October 2001. Elements of the plan to be covered include as a minimum: • design and construction of the new Solid Waste Operations Center that will need to take place later this year (the current solid waste offices must be vacated by the end of 2006, when the Town of Chapel Hill's lease for the property on which those offices are situated expires); • interest in developing some type of retail recycling facility at or in the vicinity of Eubanks Road;