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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board January 9, 2003 Approved February 13, 2003 prepay there ' s no incentive to reduce . We pay about $360, 000 per year . With the prepaid tipping fee, you ' ll get more money out it that way but it' s not as equitgable . Arndt suggests the University should stand alone and be negotiated with . Vickers notes that the County or Town cannot dictate to the University as a creature of the state . Tipton notes that if any of the Towns or County implement Pay As You Throw, the University would get dumped on. Hughes asks if residential and commercial waste data is kept separately at the landfill . Wilson replies what is multifamily is mixed in with general commercial . Single family residential is separate . Sassaman states that I am trying to get a feel of what we want. Forget about fees, those are gone . Norwood asks if there is a need for a backup plan. Vickers states that the fees structure without the collection [ should be shown] as appendix in case a County commissioner doesri t want to do this . Visser states that, when presenting, go ahead and give the all as options and say what you want and the reason why . Sassaman states that the next item to deal with is the outline that was distributed . Tonight I would like us to be in a position to ask staff to go ahead and start fleshing that outline out to get a draft report . Looking at the Prince William County model as a prime option and a fee-based system as a backup . Wilson states that we are ready to go to start writing the report. Vickers states that there is the issue of the MRF . Why is it needed? I think that when talking about the MRF you have to discuss the cost saving ways of obtaining our recycling goals . There seems to be a ' Niagara Falls ' (ref : ' Abbott and Costello ' ) reaction to the MRF concept with some of the Commissioners . 9