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Solid Waste Advisory Board- - Regular Meeting December 12 , 2002 Government Services , Hillsborough Approved January 9 , 2003 find out his opinion on what the SWAB is thinking . We talked about trying to get closer communication with the Commissioners . Barry suggested that we get up a work session with the Commissioners . The very earliest would be January . Barry suggested that at the work sessionswe walk the Commissioners through the process . Barry also suggested that we also have the County Attorney attend these meetings to get his input on how to proceed and advise us on legal questions . Jan suggested that Gayle be responsible for getting the County Attorney to the next meeting . Gayle responded that he would ask, but the Commissioners would be the ones that would make sure he was in attendance . One of the things Jacobs and Sassaman discussed was the 61 % recycling goal and as a [ SWAB ] board we have officially put our stamp on that percentage . I got the sense that the BOCC ) board was pretty much committed to that goal . We are talking about a goal — something that we are going to shoot for . We talked about the timing and implementation of that goal . How pushing the implementation back later on in time would affect our fiscal needs . We talked then about the analysis as it was last month with two basic scenarios ( a) looking at scheduled implementation somewhat later than was originally planned and (b) 61 % by the year 2006 was probably not within the ream of the achievable . Barry suggested that we develop a chart showing a continuum of where we are now at approximately 45 % recycling up to 61 % . Show the mechanisms needed for each incremental increase in recycling such as the MRF , new programs , pay as you throw, etc . At each incremental step show the reduction and the cost of each incremental reduction . We talked about our need to get a better sense of what the Board of Commissioners wanted in general . Barry suggested that we prepare a semi - annual report to the Board and use that as an opportunity to let them know what we are doing and to provide a vehicle for a dialog with them and finally he indicated that the Board would probably like to see a calculation about any fees that we would suggest that we would recommend such as availability fees , taxes , etc . for the solid waste operations would relate to the overall tax rate . Mr . Jacobs stated that the Board had not discussed much in the way other than operational decisions . We have not had much of philosophical discussion about anything related to solid waste . We talked about the purchase of a grinder and implementing the [regulated recyclable materials ] ordinance , but we haven ' t looked at a big picture level since a recommendation was made not to hire a consultant , which was a year ago . That was why I suggested a work session with the Commissioners to get them up to speed on what is happening . Jan asked Gayle what he thought would be the best approach for the work session . Gayle it would be February before we would be ready to have a responded that he thought discussion with the Board of Commissioners and be reasonably prepared to answer a lot of the questions that we would expect them to ask and we can ask the University (Environmental Finance Center , i . e . Jeff Hughes , Joe Cook) to present with us . Gayle 5