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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board January 9, 2003 Approved February 13, 2003 Wilson states whether the public will understand that nuance and believe it is another matter . Just because it' s true doesn' t mean it will be understood . Sassaman states that we should have Jeff Hughes summarize where he is today with the tax and availability fee . Then we can have B J Tipton speak about the university . We will need to spend a fair amount of time talking about what we want to do with the outline and where we want to go with our report . If there is some consensus about the general approach we are interested in and it is viable then we should put it on the table . The gist of the model is simple, some programs benefit everyone in the County equally while some are specific to various sectors . The model has tried to define people in different customer categories that are obvious to the public . It ' s important to know how we categorize and quantify the customer classes . We feel the numbers are valid to within 10 % in the customer categories . For instance, about 10,000 in rural area have curbside recycling pickup . Hughes states that the model that we have is being fine-tuned . As far as the policy decisions you make you are in the 5 % to 10 % range . What we handed out at the last meeting would be the jumping off point . There are only a handfull of numbers that are important . [493 Jeff explains the handout] that' s used to generate the availability fee or taxes that might be needed to make up the shortfall . We have taken the numbers and looked at the expenditure information for each program. For some of the programs there is existing revenue, i . e . tipping fees, which has been taken into consideration and calculated the shortfall . For a period of 10 years we have calculated out the shortfall for each of the subcategories and divided by the number of users to come up with the revenue that' s short. The nitty-gritty is trying to figure out where individuals fit in the categories and which services they benefit from. The standard that most counties are going to is the flat fee option . In the cases that you have, we have calculated the theoretical fee . If you wanted to you could change it every year to see what it would be but it ' s hard to be that exact in predicting future revenues . Example in FY 2003-04 people in Carrboro for urban curbside, we need about $60 [per household annually] for that service and general services . On average for non-residential (commercial and institutional) it would be approximately $157. The shortfall for next year would only be about 10 % that is coming from non-residential class, so from an implementation standpoint, it will be more than 10 % of the headache to calculate fees . You could decide to fix residential shortfall since it' s relatively simple . 4