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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board May 13, 2004 Approved September 9, 2004 3 . 2004-05 SWAB Priorities Sassaman reads goals stated in " Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions Input for County Commissioners' Planning Retreat" . Are these things we want to do this year ? Vickers asks if we are ready for the issue regarding the location of a waste transfer station now . Wilson states that it is something that could be delayed another year . Vickers states that you are not going to get the powers to be to listen to you unless it' s an immediate issue for them . Wilson states that they are not going to be interested in going through a siting process . They will probably go with this site . Kabrick asks where do we encompass the redraft of the plan . Is that part of this list? Wilson states that will be the result of the meeting of the [Chapel Hill Town] Council and Commissioners . Sassaman asks Wilson what does he want from the SWAB . Wilson states that some of the things the department will be doing are • moving toward opening a full land clearing and processing facility not a landfill in the county, • implementing the fee, • hearing appeals for the fee, • designing a recycling center for Southern Village, • designing and construction of the new solid waste administration building, • evaluating the way the county provides solid waste services, with the likelihood of the Sanitation Division of Public Works becoming a part of this Department, • taking over rural curbside program • relocating the Hillsborough recycling center • reevaluating the Solid Waste Management Plan You can pick of those that you want to get involved in. Sassaman asks what do you want us to get involved in. Wilson states that it is essential that you all stay involved into the issue of the solid waste management plan. 5