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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> January 9, 2003 <br /> Approved February 13, 2003 <br /> Gist states the thing she likes about the fee is that it is safe from tax cuts at budget <br /> time . Using a tax I might devote to a fireman rather than the landfill . <br /> Sassaman states the next thing we should do is segue into the Prince William <br /> scenario and share the numbers to give us something to talk against . <br /> Hughes states that the compromise op , let ' s take the <br /> ise tion <br /> services that benefits <br /> everyone such as hazardous household waste, that are the closest to general public <br /> services and cover those through property tax and a fee to cover the rest . In doing <br /> that you end up with a slightly lower fee and convert that over to property taxes . If <br /> it ' s an $8 fee and you convert that to property tax, it' s about 1 / 2 a cent . Under this <br /> scenario all property tax owners are paying something . <br /> Pollock states that on page 1 of model note 6, the mobile home parks are a very <br /> significant number to Orange County' s housing and are considered as rural <br /> residential customers not multifamily customers . Second point is when looking at <br /> commercial fees they look significant but with a shopping center with a cluster of <br /> businesses the fees get shook out . <br /> Wilson states that Blair has done a survey of similar communities to find out what <br /> they did and of the six that he called they all use fees — Hickory, Wake County, <br /> Chatham County, Durham County, Kernersville, and Wilmington. <br /> Hughes states the Prince William option has a lot of fundamental changes in the <br /> way you finance the program . You no longer have any revenue from landfill <br /> tipping fees but you still have cost. So we take that deficit for that category and <br /> divide it by the number of customers and it goes to $122 for the urban curbside <br /> customer from $65, multifamily goes to $85, non residential $195, <br /> Vickers clarifies that means, for the Town of Carrboro, for example, there would no <br /> tipping fee . . <br /> Sassaman states a very important point to make is that the Towns ' cost would be <br /> significantly reduced because you would not pay tipping fees . The only thing <br /> costwise the Towns would have to pass on to the citizens is the cost of [solid <br /> waste] collection. [i . e . not disposal] <br /> Gist notes for that cost we 're going to sell them a blue bag . <br /> 6 <br />