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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board March 2, 2006 Approved April 6, 2006 This will probably be one of the areas of focus as we are developing the plan . The County has recently faced the issues of trying to find new convenience center locations as leases expire and it' s difficult for the elected officials to site these facilities in areas where there are complaints and people don' t want them . The notion of universal garbage will come up in our discussions . This will roughly mean the County in one way or another providing curbside garbage collection for the residential sector in the unincorporated areas . It could be mandatory or voluntary where you can continue using the convenience centers . The thing that you all and the Work Group will need to do is provide staff some direction as to how to prepare the solid waste plan with regards to unincorporated waste collection . I have made a personal request through Rod to have the County Attorney analyze and provide some information to us regarding franchising . This is important for two reasons . One because that will be a legitimate option if we want to consider any kind of universal collection and take control of the waste so the regulations are applied to all the waste [from Orange County] . Two, because of Senate Bill 951 , which will put some pressure on local governments to franchise quickly if it' s adopted . If the bill is adopted in mid- May the only protection is a franchise and I don' t know if there ' s enough time to adequately consider and adopt a franchise ordinance . Vickers states that under franchising there would be no investment by the County and users would pay the cost . Would the County be looking for one or two vendors ? Wilson states that my understanding is that you can have an exclusive or non- exclusive franchise . An exclusive would be one . You can also divide up [the County] into sectors or any other geographic way and award different franchises in that area . You can franchise and make it mandatory or voluntary . If it' s voluntary then you can only hire the franchisee, you can' t just hire someone who' s not been awarded a franchise . Vickers asks if the franchise would dictate the fee level . Wilson replies yes . Clayton asks wouldn' t there be a much greater savings if you were to write one check a month to company X . The company would not have to have a sales force, mailings each month whether you did it yourself or someone else did it . If there was a single payer system, everyone included, there is already a mechanism in place in the County . Everyone already pays for garbage fees, which run the convenience center . If you are losing all convenient centers you need to take pressure off of them . You 7