SWAB minutes 060106 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board June 1 , 2006 Approved August 3, 2006 Pollock states that not to derail you all from reaching a consensus, my instinct about the message of the meeting yesterday, because each department or most departments have an advisory board, the feeling he got was they will be looking for some specific recommendations that pertain to that advisory board' s purview as opposed to the general, so if you want to hit the general, I would also make sure to mix in something that specifically pertains to solid waste . Sassaman states that according to this action item it is to look at how we drive our trucks and our haul routes and make sure we are doing it the most efficient way possible . Vickers asks Gayle, isn t that one of your highest cost options ? Looking at how you can effectively collect garbage . Wilson states that we are looking at it right now . He doesn' t' know what they are going want us to look at . For a simple thing like the transfer station, it is commonly understood that a transfer station is better for economic reasons, meaning using less fuel etc . , located as near as possible to the center of waste generation. We have moved beyond the notion of a local landfill, but just the notion of transferring waste to a distant facility is obviously not environmentally efficient . We are not examining the convenience centers . Is it more efficient for 10, 000 people a week to run to the convenience centers to get rid of their recyclables and garbage when a recycling truck goes down their road and could pick it up ? We have already burned the gas to get in front of their house, yet they are not using the service . The same thing would apply for garbage collection . If you are serious, that is were the real juice is . Kabrick states that while it makes sense to have a statement that expresses the small ideas that we' ve talked about we believe that there are bigger items where the savings are currently and articulate those, as Gayle pointed out . Sassaman states that my goal tonight to come to a decision . A lack of a decision is a decision within itself . He will give Barry a response tomorrow . Kabrick states that he would add another bullet to the first paragraph to site and permit a new landfill in Orange County . Jim Ward and he and another Council member are interested and I' ve heard there is one County Commissioner interested . He will not let that die . Wilson states that the point you make is a good one . Do they really want to know how to do it or do they want to know how to do it that doesn' t upset anyone ? 8