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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board March 2, 2006 Approved April 6, 2006 Attendance : Linda Bowerman, Al Vickers, Joe Clayton, Remus Smith, Jan Sassaman and BJ Tipton Staff . Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, Wanda McCain, Rob Taylor, Paul Spire, and Tom Draney Guest : Ken Friedlein and Jim Compton (Dixon-Weinstein Architects ) 1 . Adoption of Minutes from February 2 SWAB meeting Clayton moves to accept . Bowerman 2nd . Passes unanimously . 2 . Solid Waste Operations Center Preliminary Design Presentation- Dixon-Weinstein Architects Friedlein states that we have gotten through the schematic design for the building for the solid waste group that serves the agency and provides a place where the public might meet . The site is now larger and it frees up the building design to allow us to more readily accommodate parking and other functions . We are proposing a building that is about 9 , 000 sq . ft . It will be set back from the road . This will not be a tall, in-your-face kind of office building . The public meeting room will be the lantern for the building . In discussion with staff we' ve concluded that it ought to in some way acknowledge the landfill although that will become the dinosaur of solid waste and we can demonstrate new solid waste technologies there . There will be demonstration and educational components, and the building itself will demonstrate sustainable design practices and methods . [Shows drawings of building] . The roofs will slope up to allow light in from the southern sun for most of the building except the main meeting room . There is an education courtyard that you come through into the building . The covered walkway is an area where we' d like to use the [previously] deconstructed building materials . [He continues to describe the building program and design in detail] . Sassaman asks what is the seating capacity of the meeting room? Friedlein replies with tables it is 54 and 80 without tables . Wilson states that in about a year and a half hopefully all SWAB meetings will be in that meeting room . On March 15 there is a solid waste work session at 4 * 00pm with the County Commissioners . At that time these gentlemen will go into a little more detail . If the Commissioners are agreeable and see no difficulties we will be ready to proceed with the next step . We' re awaiting their feedback to move to next phase . The short term plans for the other piece of property purchased is for equipment and employee parking and a crew building when the Sanitation Division comes over . And when the transfer station is constructed presumably on Eubanks Road we will dislodge and relocate some things so we' ll combine equipment and employee parking and a crew building over here . At some point we will construct an unheated storage 1