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Minutes - - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board February 14, 2002 Approved March 14, 2002 Wilson states that in year one there are 2 trucks that we are asking to be debt financed over a 5 -year period . In addition to buying that equipment, the cost is so high because we are looking at a mid-year implementation . Gist asks if implementation could be delayed ? Wilson states that the Commissioners are in control of this . They could decide not to do it at all . Gist asks if it is cheaper next fiscal year to stay with what you are doing? Wilson replies yes . As an enterprise fund we are not immune to the budget crises but we are somewhat shielded . If an extra $115 , 000 is spent next year to implement the program that doesn' t really effect the tax rate . Gist states that in any way the enterprise fund can be connected to the tipping fee . The lower we keep the tipping fee the lower the tax rate . For us the tipping fee is a percent of our budget . Pollock states that no matter what year we do it [implement the program] we will have to incur that lag . Vickers states that looking at it from SWAB position, we would be recommending to the County that this is a good program and they should implement it when appropriate . It is the County' s decision to implement based on economics . Gist states that the county' s decision effects all of us . Sassaman states that there is another way of looking at it . It may be better to start it sooner than later so that the cost savings come into play when the landfill is closed . Vickers states that we don' t know how long the State' s budget problem is going to persist . If more than 2 or 3 years the numbers indicate that this should be done tomorrow . Visser states that we don' t have to make a decision about this tonight. What I hear Gist say is that it is tough to handle that up front cost if it is going to have some possible upward effect on the tip fee . 3