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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board January 9, 2003 Approved February 13, 2003 Wilson states that' s true but we have to deal with it straight up and either convince them or not . The bottom line is that the materials are going to be processed somewhere — will they be processed locally without the additional transportation cost but with capital cost and operating cost or not have a MRF and not care where it' s processed . Tipton asks why do you have approval on this ? . The real point of the discussion is to move forward on a fee structure . Sassaman states that we have been telling the Commissioners and Chapel Hill, that we are basing our assumptions on MRF and a waste transfer station because that is inherent in the plan they have approved . Vickers asks Gayle when the capital would need to be approved for that to happen . Wilson states the approval would have to happen within the next fiscal year or year and a half. Pollock states that the [MRF development] schedule was land acquisitioning in FY04-05, design in FY05 -06 . Wilson states that you will not be able to separate the MRF from the fees . Sassaman states that part of the report is putting in the cost implications associated with no MRF . Pollock states that Barry Jacobs brought up a good point at the last meeting when he asked that we show how far we can go without a MRF . Staff feels that we are as far as we can go with source-separated collection. Wilson states that without a MRF the Unity would be l id in jumpi ivers essntereste ng on the bandwagon . Visser states that it is fine to talk about a MRF, but you will need to point out the cost assumptions inherent in the scenarios, however if you are not careful about how much attention you pay to it and what tone there is, severe danger that this discussion will spin out of control . 10