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i <br />8. Assess the Effectiveness of and Compliance with the RRMO <br />■ Make ordinance or enforcement adjustments as necessary <br />9. Consider options for proving non - municipal operated waste collection services — i.e. franchising <br />■ Reduce fuel usage <br />■ Minimize costs <br />■ Maximize access to services <br />10. Evaluation of Urban Curbside Program <br />■ Collection frequency upon request by Towns <br />■ Capacity for adding additional materials to recycling stream (ongoing) <br />Lone Term Issues <br />Staffs believe that some sort of technical advisory committee would be appropriate or even necessary to <br />explore and evaluate more intricate or longer term type issues or issues that are likely to be publically <br />contentious. Alternatively, local government staff could provide this function once satisfactory progress <br />is made on more short /mid -term priorities. <br />• Uses for closed landfills <br />• Residential Organics <br />• Alternative Technologies <br />• Community Impacts of Facility Siting, Programs, Policies /Ordinances <br />• Pay -As- You -Throw waste collection <br />• Development of Regional /Multi- county Cooperative Relationships <br />[,anpral <br />Timeframe - Most new program implementation, major current program expansions, and all facility <br />construction require multiple years to plan and implement. So terms such as short -term, mid -term and <br />long -term may not be viewed by everyone through the same timeframe lens. For example, it may be <br />suggested that expansion of rural curbside recycling is a short -term action, but that action has been <br />proposed as a three year phased implementation that will not be fully implemented until the fourth <br />year. <br />Workload — Your staff's capacity to plan and implement multiple programs and facilities is frequently <br />limited given ongoing routine service provision and administrative obligations, in addition to other <br />programmatic and facility improvements and modifications that are continually in progress. Even the <br />use of consultants requires close oversight and guidance. There are genuine limits to the overall staff <br />capability at any one time if quality program performance, cost effectiveness and effective citizen <br />education and outreach activities are desirable objectives. Nevertheless, your staffs are prepared to <br />undertake the issues deemed priority by our respective governing boards. <br />3 <br />