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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board December 6, 2007 Approved February 7, 2008 Attendance : Jan Sassaman, Bonnie Norwood, Remus Smith, Al Vickers, Michelle Grunwald, Mike Nelson, BJ Tipton and Linda Bowerman Staff: Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, Paul Spire, Wanda McCain, Nicole Ard, Hary Howard and Rob Taylor Guest: Gary Carver, Tracy Kuhlman, Robert Campbell and Curtis Harper - all introduce themselves when asked . 1 . Adoption of Minutes from October 4 SWAB meeting Norwood moves to accept. Grunwald 2nd . Passes unanimously 2 . Board Member Comments Norwood states that you can tell a difference who is working on how clean the whole place looks, but particularly the shed . More brownie points for Vann . The road is nice and clean . The smell, that stuff is not masking very good . Smith states that the meeting last week was very informative . 3 . Solid Waste Management Planning - Interim State Report Pollock states that in October you all received and endorsed a resolution requesting the BOCC adopt the notion of providing an interim solid waste management plan to bring the county ' s three-year solid waste planning update into compliance with the state requirement. The original due date was June 30, 2006 . This past Monday, the Board adopted your recommendation to go ahead and permit the staff to prepare the interim solid waste management plan. The interim plan is a little different from the standard solid waste plan that we usually prepare, which is both descriptive of past activities and prescriptive in terms of what we look forward to doing in the next planning period . This particular interim plan will focus primarily on the descriptive aspect of what we ' ve done, not only in the three-year period of 2003 -2006 but also the other intervening eighteen months and highlight some of our accomplishments, for example the addition of mixed paper at residential and multifamily [locations] . The prospective part will do more than actually lay out what the plan is, it will describe the planning process which is rather deliberate and inclusive of all the various local governments, and explain why we are running behind on our plan and what we have been doing for the last eighteen months with the solid waste plan work group and you all, along with progress in planning in the commercial recycling plan and evaluation of the processing center . You all will see the draft once it is completed . Subsequent to that we will make a progress report to the BOCC, after which there will be a public meeting about the plan that we will host with the Board . The staff intends to accomplish the substantive 1