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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> October 5, 2006 <br /> Approved November 2, 2006 <br /> Kabrick states that most facilities have a community relationship plan, financial <br /> contributions to charities and required volunteer number of hours for an annual basis . <br /> A lot of this is stated in part of the [existing SWAB] attachments in a different way . <br /> Sassaman states that we should consider trying to combine the two . You' ve been <br /> more specific in some spots, the community issue, the reserves, the personnel getting <br /> health insurance at a reasonable cost . <br /> Bowerman asks Randy if there are problems finding places that fit all the criteria . <br /> Kabrick replies not when you work for the world ' s largest oil company . BP can drive <br /> any bargain they want . We don' t have that kind of leverage . <br /> Sassaman states that it doesn' t have to be binding, these are guidelines . <br /> Kabrick states that we could marry these together . <br /> Sassaman suggest that he and Randy work on that together . <br /> Smith asks if we transfer our garbage are they required to tell us what they pay their <br /> employees ? Is that our business ? <br /> Kabrick states we should make it our business . OWASA is doing that with their <br /> biosolids, they say " if you want our business you will show us your facility . " They are <br /> not obligated to open their books to us . <br /> Clayton states that one could ask if they pay a living wage . <br /> Pollock states that a lot of places may not define that the same way Orange County <br /> does . It terms of putting it as a criterion, you may want to refer to the hourly <br /> equivalent of the federal poverty line for a family of four or use Orange County' s <br /> definition . <br /> Clayton states that the State may have that by County . <br /> Sassaman states that it ' s questionable that if the living wage clause was part of the <br /> criteria, would a private facility meet that criteria . <br /> Pollock states that based on what we ' ve learned about MRFs it would be unlikely . <br /> Sassaman states that ultimately we will need to find a facility to take our recycling <br /> and if the standards are set too high we may not find it and may force us into building <br /> our own which is another option. <br /> 2 <br />