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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> June 7, 2007 <br /> Approved August 2, 2007 <br /> Wilson replies that the difference will come out of the [undesignated] reserve balance <br /> which would reduce that from half a million dollars to $100, 000 . <br /> Norwood asks if there are figures for the new site of the convenience center at <br /> Eubanks Road . <br /> Wilson states that it will be integrated imto the cost of the transfer station project. <br /> There has been a slight impediment, where the convenience center was to be <br /> relocated, when the sewer was in place for the leachate pond, it [the pond] was going <br /> to be filled in and then the area all the way down through the HHW was going to be <br /> used for the convenience center . The rules for stream set backs have increased <br /> drastically from a 50 ft centerline to 150 ft which wipes that out. If the Town of <br /> Chapel Hill doesn' t give some type of waiver on that initial 150 ft, a new location will <br /> be needed . <br /> Pollock asks if there are no assumptions for revenue from the Greene Tract. <br /> Wilson replies the manager is going to try to have that nailed down by the next <br /> budget and to have an agreement with the three parties regarding reimbursement on <br /> at least the part of the Greene Tract that is jointly owned . <br /> 4 . Discussion of Drop- off Site and Convenience Center Planning (follow-up to Work <br /> Group Planning Process) Pollock states that you all have had a chance to look at the <br /> report that RRSI did on evaluation of services at the convenience centers and drop -off <br /> sites . That was the first phase of a two-part study that is being done . In the study <br /> they list a series of options for the new configurations of the convenience centers and <br /> drop- off sites . There are four sub-options as follows : (a) no changes to the current <br /> system, (b) reduce the number of drop -off sites to four, (c) reduce number of <br /> convenience centers to four, and ( d) reduce drop -off sites and convenience centers to <br /> four each . Included in that is making Eubanks Rd . a super-center with compactors for <br /> more ease and efficiency of moving waste where you can recycle rigid plastics and all <br /> the other materials you can' t recycle now . There could be HHW, mulch sales and <br /> other enhancements . They are two-level sites where you drop your garbage down <br /> instead of trying to heave it into a dumpster . <br /> The map shows the sites of the current convenience centers . The obvious hole is <br /> where Hwy 57 used to be . There are significant costs to replace that. The other issue <br /> is the future and expansion of the Bradshaw site . It' s small and inefficient and if any <br /> one could go that could be it. This would still leave the northeast quadrant <br /> underserved and the southwest quadrant arguably underserved . We can then talk <br /> about drop off sites . We have property at Southern Village . This is the chance for you <br /> all to air your concerns . <br /> 3 <br />