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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> May 3, 2007 <br /> Approved June 7, 2007 <br /> Joe Clayton has informed the County that he does not wish to be reappointed . Randy <br /> Kabrick has written to [Chapel Hill Mayor] Kevin Foy that he will be resigning <br /> effective May 1 . Having said that, I would welcome a resolution to thank Joe and <br /> Randy for their efforts . <br /> Smith states that they should also get some type of certificate they can frame along <br /> with the letter . <br /> Staff agrees to prepare letter and certificates for Joe Clayton and Randy Kabrick . <br /> 3 . Overview of May 10 Solid Waste Plan Work Group Meeting Pollock states that next <br /> Thursday we will give a broader update of our consultants' recycling study and the <br /> solid waste rural area study . There will be two formal presentations, which you will <br /> receive tomorrow . One study is the rural solid waste collection study in which there <br /> is a part for residential and a part for commercial waste . The nut of it is : Are we better <br /> off with the current system of laissez faire waste collection with the convenience <br /> centers or with some kind of franchise type operation that provides rural solid waste <br /> collection? Jeremy O ' Brien from Olver will be presenting the results of some financial <br /> analysis he did that looks at the current option versus the other . <br /> To boil down some of the key issues, one is when we value the total cost of the system <br /> there is the hard cost of operating the centers and there is the less clear-cut value of <br /> people ' s time and effort to go to the centers . If you add the cost of trips plus operating <br /> the centers, it' s over $2 million per year . Valuing the cost of individual trips is a <br /> policy decision and it matters when you compare it to the value of the truck trips <br /> going to everyone' s house . Does the reduced air pollution from running one truck not <br /> four have any economic value ? Should the collection be voluntary or mandatory ? If <br /> there is a franchise hauler, should you be required to use that hauler or use the <br /> convenience centers and have a charge there per bag of waste delivered . If there is a <br /> charge, it makes self haul less attractive if for example you have three bags a week at a <br /> dollar a bag and have to haul them there against getting it picked up weekly at $13 <br /> per month . How does one perceive the cost when it seems free to use convenience <br /> centers ? <br /> The commercial side will have a lay out of [analysis of franchise hauling from the] 350 <br /> commercial or non-residential properties in the unincorporated area so the service <br /> doesn ' t look that attractive to a hauler because he has to go far between stops . The <br /> economic analysis shows that it is more expensive to put a bundle of services together <br /> [fora franchise to serve all the unincorporated businesses] and bring it to our landfill . <br /> Assuming that they don' t all go to our landfill now . <br /> The way that it would make sense is if it was tied to one of the towns ' waste collection <br /> systems and that part will not be presented next week . <br /> 2 <br />