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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> June 1 , 2006 <br /> Approved August 3, 2006 <br /> that having a transfer station in Durham County is not smart in order to reduce travel <br /> and emissions . <br /> Clayton states that in order to accomplish the " All Objectives" action strategy would <br /> require a member from each department to know what they are looking at and meet <br /> regularly so they could analyze the [environmental stewardship] ideas the County' s <br /> looking at . <br /> Pollock states that the Environmental Stewardship Committee met for the first time <br /> and had 23 people there . Two things were apparent to me from that meeting . The <br /> structure is just now being formed and this would be an opportune time to bring <br /> these kinds of notions forward . The other thing they will take what they get from all <br /> individual departments and the various advisory boards and compile it into a <br /> document and send it to the Commissioners . <br /> Pollock suggested that they go slowly before bring it to the Commissioners as Jan <br /> suggested it is a potentially profound impact . There will be a sort of bureaucratic <br /> structure that could take on something this meaty, the form will be there and maybe <br /> that will drive the substance forward . <br /> Wilson asks Blair wasn' t there a sustainable committee about five or six years ago that <br /> we attended several meetings, there were private citizens involved and they produced <br /> this big thick book . We talked about a lot of these issues and everybody had great <br /> ideas and produced this book, where is it . <br /> Clayton states that he agrees with Bonnie that in many instances that people shouldn t <br /> sit around . If you drive onto the landfill you will see the guys sitting in a compactor <br /> idling his vehicle . He has to because the compactor is either hot or cold and he has to <br /> stay in there . So every department can have a rationale for why they don' t do some <br /> of this . With the routing, if you [re] routed Public Works you would have massive <br /> savings . <br /> Sassaman states that I am sure that now with the cost of gasoline everyone thinks a <br /> little bit about combining trips . <br /> Vickers states that I have a letter going to Carrboro that points out that one of the <br /> biggest financial issues will be the [cost of transporting waste to the] transfer station if <br /> it gets located farther away from Carrboro . <br /> Smith suggests that we move ahead with what we are talking about . The statement <br /> you are making in the opening paragraph is solid . That is the best we can do in all <br /> these statements . We are in the solid waste department; the idling truck is not my <br /> problem . <br /> 5 <br />