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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board September 6, 2007 Approved October 4, 2007 and several district attorneys was that we are covered under the law as long as we make it clear that we [Orange County] own the materials . We are now in the process of preparing a memo to alert the various police departments that we have complied with what they ' ve asked . There are two gray areas - at the multifamily sites and the blue bins at the curb . The new labels stating that materials belong to Orange County will go on the [rolloff] containers next week . Wilson has had some dialog with the County Attorney about strengthening the County ordinance . Wilson states that the County Attorney' s office has invited us to provide language to strengthen any ordinance against theft. Another element of the theft has been at the [staffed] convenience centers . Some employees have been the culprits and that has been dealt with and stopped . At a couple of the sites, customers have just taken the material using threatening language to take the material that' s on the ground, not containerized . We are trying to have the attendant call the sheriff and stop it one way or the other . It will get worse as prices go up . The reason this is a problem is because the revenue from the metal is used to help fund other things we do . Pollock notes that 600 of the 800 tons that came to the County last year came from the convenience centers, not directly to the landfill . Sassaman asks if this board needs to do anything with this . Wilson states that at this time it' s just for your information. At a later date we may do an ordinance or formal recommendation that you all may or may not want to endorse . 4 . Solid Waste Management Plan Work Group Process Pollock states that we are twenty months behind in our submittal to the State of our three year update of the ten-year plan . It is a problem for several reasons [outlined in the memo for this month' s meeting] . The intent is to write an interim plan and we' d like to know if you want to endorse it. It would be [primarily] a descriptive document that explains what' s been done and what we plan to do . We' ve introduced mixed paper and that' s raised rural curbside tonnage 21 % and urban curbside 8 % though in place for only half a year . Our intent would be to describe the planning process as a substitute for the prescriptive portion . We would show process as we don' t have product now . If you agree, we ' d like you to consider the interim plan concept. Smith asks if at the next meeting the placeholder, interim plan could be presented . Pollock states that we could give you a detailed outline of what the document will look like . Smith favors that. 2