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/ , V Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board / February 13 , 2003 Approved March 13, 2003 Attendance : Bonnie Norwood, B J Tipton, Remus Smith, Al Vickers, Jan Sassaman, Bill Rehm and Phil Haas Staff : Gayle Wilson, Rod Visser, Blair Pollock, Rebecca Holdway , Wanda McCain, Paul Laughton, Phil Prete, and Jeff Hughes 1 . Adoption of Minutes from January 9 . Norwood moves to adopt the minutes . Vickers 2nd . Passed unanimously . 2 . January 27 Staff PowerPoint Presentation to BOCC- No discussion Sassaman introduces Philip Haas, the new Hillsborough representative . Sassaman recaps that the SWAB has agreed on recommending the Prince William Virginia model , which involved creation of a sanitary district for collecting a prepaid comprehensive solid waste services fee from all generators of solid waste . Orange County attorney, Geoff Gledhill, has prepared a letter concluding that the model as implemented in Virginia would not be appropriate for North Carolina , Rod Visser states that the Prince William model was not being discussed by Orange County until the December SWAB meeting when Prince William County ' s Solid Waste Director, Tom Smith, presented it to us . Gledhill was asked to look at it only recently . The model was based on use of a sanitary district . Those districts are obsolete in North Carolina and would require a separate governing board to decide about taxes, fees, etc . There was an old Dogwood Acres Sanitary District in southern Orange County that had to be legally abolished . It was created to provide sewage coverage " way out in the county " and ensure they could pay off debt on their sewer system . Orange County has no more sanitary districts . Geoff' s letter indicates that it doesn' t work to establish these types of sanitary districts for limited areas and purposes such as sewers , therefore the sanitary district model doesn ' t work for solid waste fees . New Hanover County didn' t adopt the model because they looked at a fee that would include [ prepaid] tip fees . Flow control is important to them to ' feed ' their incinerator . Flow control could also be important to the interlocal agreement to assure waste flows to Orange County facility . Flow control is a bigger issue this year because of the changes in Chapel Hill and Carrboro ' s commercial waste collection and the RRMO ' s effects on reducing the C &D stream . In Hillsborough, the attorney met to ensure that all the [franchised] commercially collected waste continues to flow into the Orange County landfill . A similar effort or ordinance at the county level is needed to ensure waste keeps coming to the landfill . 1