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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> April 5, 2007 <br /> Approved May 3, 2007 <br /> Vickers states that there are five or six meetings between now and the end of the year . <br /> We are at box one and there are seventeen inputs between now and the final . <br /> Norwood states in the face of the landfill siting, if we now want to [further] prove to <br /> the commissioners what we are capable of, since we have their attention now, we <br /> could meet more than once a month and get this done in a year . <br /> Wilson states that it is the workgroup that will be making the recommendation even <br /> though you are doing a lot of work . <br /> Sassaman states that we could serve as a subgroup of the workgroup and bring that <br /> discussion to the workgroup . <br /> Vickers states that as we go into April, May and June all the political entities will be <br /> tied up in budgets . <br /> Sassaman states that we could present the work group a set of recommendations to <br /> say yes or no to . We would do all the brainstorming . <br /> Pollock states that that creates an interesting wrinkle in the proposed process, but I' ll <br /> just review the document showing the process we' ve got right now . [Reviews the <br /> various studies and the document. ] In general, the highlights of the MRF RFPs that <br /> are out on the street right now include one in which we are going to get bids from the <br /> currently operating private MRFs to take our material . The other approach is to get <br /> qualifications from different bidders and then use that to have RRSI [our MRF <br /> consultant] set up a straw system using the best elements of each and the County <br /> would then put out a request for bids to ask what it would cost to put that system <br /> together . We would then compare whether the privates might do a better job based <br /> on their proposals to take our materials compared to what we might do . [Describes <br /> the timelines for these projects including the separate RFP _ for cost of hauling and <br /> brokerage costs . ] <br /> The future of the drop off and convenience center recycling study is a natural <br /> outgrowth of what its like to have mixed paper at the curb and the push from the <br /> other end where convenience center sites are closing and changing. We' ve also been <br /> asked by the BOCC to look at capturing the waste in unincorporated areas now <br /> collected by private haulers and the various ways to approach that, voluntary, <br /> mandatory, integrated with how the dropoff and convenience center piece [falls out] . <br /> Then there is a legal study of waste hauling franchising in North Carolina . Our legal <br /> consultant' s opinion is that you cannot franchise recycling hauling in North Carolina . <br /> Wilson points out there are franchise haulers of recyclables in North Carolina . <br /> 3 <br />