SWAB minutes 021303 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board February 13 , 2003 Approved March 13 , 2003 Vickers asks if there would be any complications with the Solid Waste Convenient Centers (SWCC) that the county runs ? Wilson states that he is unsure how the SWCCs would come into it . One could look at that as disposal and not collection because it is being brought to them . Sassaman states that it seems that we have three possible decisions to make : (1 ) scrap the Prince William model and go back to tax / fee structure, (2) keep the Prince William model as first choice and recommend additional evaluation . Either tweak it to make it work in North Carolina or ask the Commissioners to seek enabling legislation to make it apply . State the elements of the Prince William County model and say that' s what they ought to be moving toward . (3 ) Keep Prince William County model and have a combined tax / fee structure as a fall back option . [i . e . ] Recommend to the Commissioners that if you can' t tweak it, then this is what we want . Rehm states that it isri t clear that what the SWAB opted for was a straight " adopt the model they are using in Prince William County " . We could enumerate the features in the model we were hoping to implement here . Pollock states that single most core element of financing is the stable and predictable financing of the solid waste system if you prepay for a bundle of services that would include operation of landfill and other elements of our system including recycling system, HHW collection, administrative aspects , etc . C &D is not included but they have been financed in our integrated model now . Typically you ' d charge a tipping fee for C &D but that piece isn ' t fully resolved . Aside from that, you ' d assess each residence and business a fee based on the total cost of the solid waste system divided by the magnitude of their waste generation . If a single family house was equal to one then a mobile home might be 0 . 75 and an apartment might be 0 . 7 times the number of units in the building . You ' d develop a whole separate structure for the commercial sector based on the size and type of business and fit all your commercial into categories . Then you have to integrate with tax, GIS and others . That ' s not an insignificant effort . Sassaman states that one of the things that appealed to us was that it eliminates the concept of tipping fees . The Towns could pass off that cost to the county . It appears to be a lot more equitable than any kind of tax structure where non-taxable entities don' t contribute to the cost of the public service they might use in the solid waste arena . The one draw back is that it cannot be totally implemented in year one . This one would take longer than others would . 3