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Solid Waste Advisory Board -- Regular Meeting November 14, 2002 Government Services Center - Chapel Hill Approved January 9, 2003 Over the past 2 times we have met; we started looking at the availability of fiscal resources . What are various alternative ways to come up with the money to meet these needs that we have projected over the coming 10 years ? We have been looking at several service levels . Basically looking at general service fees , urban curbside service fees, rural curbside service fees, multifamily fees and commercial fees . These are the things that will impact the towns and the citizens . It is nice to sit back and say " well this is what its going to cost, and this is what we can do to raise the money" , but we all realize that each of us represent a group of stake holders represented by Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and the county at large, t so we spent time at our last meeting talking about the need for us to go back and talk to the various town authorities (elected or otherwise) . If you have followed the correspondence that you have received from me and see the copy list, you will note that Jacquie [Gist] noted the need to send an update to the elected officials and you should have gotten a copy . We did send a memo to all the elected officials of the towns explaining where we were going and what we were struggling with. Al Vickers and I were invited to make a command appearance, last month at a Chapel Hill Town Council Meeting and I went over that with you at the last meeting and had a handout. Bill has a copy of the presentation and (with modifications) will share it with Carrboro . If anyone is interested, I will give you a copy of that presentation. We decided that we really needed to go back to the various jurisdictions and talk to them about how they wanted to have input into this process and the next item of business will be feedback from anybody who has gone to their respective authorities to discuss with them what we are doing . What we need to do next is continue our evaluation or our consideration of the various alternative4unding mechanisms and decide on what we want ' to recommend to the Board of Commissioners . Talking with Al, who is my Chapel Hill partner, we have felt that we were not comfortable with going to the. Board of Commissioners and saying 'you need ° to slap an _ 'x % tax rate on ' everybody to generate this kind of money' . We thought it more appropriate to go back and say ' these types of services probably should be covered by taxes and these types of services probably should be covered by service fees . ' ' If you did this you would generate this amount of money and if you did that you would generate that amount of money' ; but leave the political decisions up the politicians .