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Minutes <br /> Regular Meeting - Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> November 8 , 2001 <br /> There are many levels of interaction with the other Departments such as <br /> whether public works will be considering universal rural curbside waste <br /> collection . Do we reduce or eliminate dropoff site collection if that happens . <br /> Wilson states December . <br /> Visser states that there must be a sound baseline of documented assumptions <br /> and then do the sensitivity analysis and come up with a range - - but be <br /> conservative if you ' re going to overstate costs by contrast don' t tell people <br /> that we ' re going to have $ 75 to $100 per year availability fee that might <br /> turnout to be $30 or $40 . <br /> Sassaman states that there are 2 sides to the whole issue — how much is it <br /> going to cost and the alternatives of coming up with the money . <br /> Vickers states we have to come up with the ballpark of the money we need . <br /> Sassaman replies that we ' re charged with the task of suggestions and <br /> recommendations . <br /> Visser states it is possible the SWAB may determine that the cost of meeting <br /> the goals is too great and they may recommend that the goals be <br /> reconsidered . Some of the Commissioners are concerned that when the 61 % <br /> goal was established it was not done with the type of analysis that the SW <br /> staff is doing right now, the detailed analysis of the costs . A possibility <br /> would be to look at X facility what increments of waste reduction does <br /> that achieve at what cost . SO, if we' re at 35 % now, how do we get the next <br /> two percent, then four percent . <br /> Sassaman, you want it in terms of increment per dollar . You dori t want to <br /> spend 50 % of your money to get 5 % more . <br /> Wilson states that when the plan was adopted there was a range of cost . That <br /> was well known, they were not pursuing the plan and goal in a vacuum . <br /> Those costs were prominently displayed in the reports . There are increments <br /> that can walk forward that are cost associated with, but they aren' t just <br /> additive . As you go forward, some of the options affect other programs . They <br /> can merge . We can assume a few percentage points increment but to make <br /> the 15 to 18 % jump, you' re going to run into processing issues . This has all <br /> bee addressed . In one way it' s simple . You' re going to move materials and <br /> you have certain choke points, we' re approaching it now . I could start <br /> collecting commercial recyclables tomorrow but how am I going to prepare <br /> 8 <br />