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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board March 8 , 2007 Approved April 5, 2007 Wilson says he has heard nothing through the professional solid waste organization about it at the state level . Pollock notes it' s gone to the Senate Committee on small business . 3 . Discussion of January 18 Landfill Neighborhood Community Meeting, March 1 Tour, March 1 BOCC Work Session and other related Transfer Station Matters Wilson states that there was a neighborhood meeting on January 18 . There were about twenty -five people in attendance . I reviewed what a transfer station is, what it could look like, and explained the operation of a transfer station. Moses Cary presented the general approach the commissioners were taking . There was a good deal of time spent responding to questions . The questions covered a gamut of issues such as traffic, speeding, and public bus service . On March 1 there was a tour of a transfer station. The newest one in the state is in Greensboro and that is the one that was toured by some elected officials . They had a lot of questions of the manager of the transfer station. There will be a second tour on Saturday to include interested citizens . There are a couple of pieces of property off of Hwy 70 East that the BOCC are also considering. Recently there have been ads in the paper, a direct mailing to those in the area and hand- delivered flyers to those in the economic district of the potential transfer station site . There is a meeting next week for the Board to choose to or not to make a decision. If they choose not to use Eubanks Rd . they may direct me to conduct a more detail assessment of one or both of the sites on Hwy 70 . The time line necessary to design and permit, and construct a facility is three -and - a- half to four years . We are in the three -and -a-half [years] or less amount of time left. Bowerman asks if the Chapel Hill site would have [publicly supplied] water . Wilson states that it is in the area where it would be serviced by water and sewer . The Hwy 70 sites have water but not sewer . In my opinion it is more important for the BOCC to pick a transfer station site that they can live with for the next twenty years instead of picking a site for expediency that they will regret for the next twenty years . There are implications if a transfer station isn' t ready when the landfill reaches capacity . We would then have to spend money on an interim transfer station that would have to go somewhere . The best course of action is for them to pick a site they can live with . Sassaman asks what are the implications for operations for siting it on Hwy 70 . 3