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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> August 2, 2007 <br /> Approved September 6, 2007 <br /> possibility of losing the transfer station site for this theoretical possibility of <br /> maximizing our operational potential . <br /> Spire states that the maintenance building was built to service the landfill equipment <br /> but now works on mostly trucks and once the landfill closes, we won' t have much <br /> heavy equipment. The only way that this might work is in the long- term, the <br /> maintenance building could move to where it would be more convenient to service <br /> the recycling and sanitation vehicles because there won' t be much equipment at the <br /> transfer station and C &D landfill . While the concept is sound, we cannot give up our <br /> maintenance building . <br /> Wilson notes that they have 165 acres on the Greene Tract that they can work with for <br /> recreation, but the Towri s interest is focused on the Neville Tract, which is space we <br /> need for storm debris management when the next big storm comes . <br /> Sassaman asks, what is the realistic probability that there would be a MRF built on the <br /> Eubanks Rd . site ? <br /> Wilson replies a ten percent chance . <br /> Vickers states that having the MRF on there is a political poison. <br /> Norwood notes that there may be some other terminology to use to describe the <br /> facility . <br /> Tipton asks if the transfer station could be built there now and everything else we <br /> might need to put there could wait? <br /> Wilson notes that the solid waste convenience center has to move soon and if the site <br /> next to the transfer station is the choice rather than on the south side, we need that <br /> site . The convenience center could be built where the maintenance building is, but <br /> then the maintenance building has to be moved and we have no site for that. We <br /> don t know if there is a site for a new maintenance building within the Town of <br /> Chapel Hill . <br /> 4 . Expansion of Landfill Buffers Wilson states that there is a small piece of property <br /> near the landfill that has been on the market a couple of times over the years but <br /> hasn' t sold . In being consistent and sensitive to the neighborhoods' concerns of the <br /> landfill being here, the county should think about, when possible and reasonably <br /> priced, buying property around it [the landfill] for � buffer to insulate impacts of the <br /> landfill on the surrounding community . This is going to develop and there would <br /> eventually be someone living along this section of Eubanks Road . I am <br /> recommending to the Board to authorize [the Department] to conduct a market <br /> 3 <br />