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Solid Waste Advisory Board ~- Regular Meeting November 14 , 2002 Government Services Center - Chapel Hill Approved January 9, 2003 In Attendance : James Arndt, Jacquie Gist, Bonnie Norwood, Bill Rehm, Jan Sassaman, Remus Smith and BJ Tipton . Staff : Rebecca Holdway, Blair Pollock, Mary Watkins, and Gayle Wilson . Others in Attendance : Joe Cook, Jeff Hughes, Vimalanand Prabhu, and Rod Visser . The meeting was called to order at 6 * 15 p . m . 1 . Adoption of Minutes from October 10 . Jan motioned to table the review of the minutes until next meeting, seconded by Bill Rehm, due to the fact that some members did not receive the e-mailed drafts . Prior to the next meeting, the October minutes will be re-distributed to those that did not receive them. 2 . Reports re : Feedback from Towns/County regarding process for proceeding with BOCC review and obtaining input from Towns and public . Jan stated that he would give a brief review on where we were and what we are doing with regard to alternative financing proposals and issues so that the stage could be set for the next two items on the agenda . Basically, we have started out with a series of work sessions and meetings addressing the financial needs for handling the solid waste enterprise for the next 10 years, based on a 10-year budget analysis . We have massaged that analysis and looked% at the assumptions . We are down to a point that if we make a specific change, it might affect the . final outcome a few hundred thousand dollars one way or a few hundred thousand dollars another way in any given year . A lot of these changes are within the noise of variability and some of the changes are probably smaller than the uncertainty that we will be faced with 9 years from now . We . have also looked, to some extent, . at an alternative . budget that assumes a continuation of the status quo with regard to programs . The primary budget we have been looking at is scenario ' A' , based on an aggressive attempt to try to. achieve the 61 % recycling goal by the year 2009 and that is based on a vote by this board to endorse the solid waste plan that called for a 61 % recycling goal . We have also been looking at scenario ' B ' as an alternative to ' A' . ' B ' assumes that we will keep the status quo in terms of recycling; we won' t try to do anything aggressive .