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15 <br />Orange County, NC <br />Financial Plan and Rate Study for Solid Waste Enterprise Fund <br />• Personnel rosters and organizational charts <br />• Vehicle improvement plans <br />• Vehicle maintenance plans and anticipated costs <br />• Solid waste agreements <br />• Planned and potential capital improvement projects <br />• Program fee drivers, memorandums, and other narratives <br />1.1.2 Staff Communications <br />SCS held a project kickoff teleconference to initiate the Study, which provided a forum to <br />confirm the scope of services, discuss data needs, and identify key issues for County staff. <br />During the course of the Study, SCS conducted a series of additional conference calls with <br />County staff managing different facets of the overall System. These conference calls, along with <br />routine email communications, gave SCS an opportunity to review Study progress, verify overall <br />assumptions, and receive useful input from County staff. In addition, SCS representatives gave a <br />presentation of initial Study findings at a County Manager's Meeting on 5/10/16 as well as a <br />meeting of the Solid Waste Advisory Group (SWAG), a group of public and private solid waste <br />stakeholders from various County and Town organizations on 5/25/16. SCS met with the County <br />Manager and other County leaders again on 8/3/16 to review the financial analysis and <br />conclusions and recommendations from the study. <br />1.2 SOLID WASTE ORDINANCES <br />Chapter 34 of the County Code contains the County's solid waste ordinances. Ordinances fall <br />under three articles related to general solid waste topics, collection and disposal, and regulated <br />recyclable material. <br />1.2.1 Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance <br />Of particular note is the Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance (RRMO), which went into <br />effect on October 1, 2002. The RRMO requires that C &D projects have a waste management <br />plan in place. It also mandates that certain bulky materials such as scrap metals, clean wood, <br />pallets, and corrugated cardboard from commercial waste streams be recycled and not disposed <br />of in a landfill. Applications for self -haul of recyclable material are available through the <br />Department for a fee. There is also a charge of $25 per vehicle for a Collector's License which is <br />applied to a vehicle used to haul C &D waste within the County with a Gross Vehicle Weight of <br />greater than 9,000 pounds. Open burning of solid waste and C &D is prohibited within the <br />County. <br />1.3 COLLECTION OF SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLABLE <br />MATERIAL <br />Collection of solid waste and traditional recyclable material (bottles /cans, mixed paper, OCC, <br />etc.) occurs through a variety of facets (curbside collection, staffed drop -off centers, 24 -hour <br />drop -off centers, etc.) within Orange County. Orange County is somewhat unique in the <br />municipal world in that it operates municipal curbside recyclable material collection programs <br />