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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> February 7, 2008 <br /> Approved April 3, 2008 <br /> Tipton states that we are talking about a new technology that we don' t know the <br /> name of so my first question is what about the [State] Solid Waste Division and asking <br /> them what they' ve seen, what they think, think outside the box, there are creative <br /> things out there now, can we afford them, I have no idea . Not looking at options will <br /> create more of a political issue than looking at them . <br /> Spire states that there is a consultant working with the BOCC on the criteria for the <br /> transfer station. That is going to determine what ever the type of solid waste facility <br /> built in Orange County possibly for years to come . The consultant is already under <br /> contract you could piggyback on their process . <br /> Norwood states that this seems like this is one of those issues where the <br /> commissioners just wants us to feed them and we don t get any feedback . They just <br /> want some ideas to go on. <br /> Sassaman states that they are responding to a lot of people who have said to ship the <br /> material out of the county is unethical . Is there any alternative that we might look at <br /> that is viable and feasible for Orange County ? <br /> Norwood states that we could send them a list of, not a lot of information, but just <br /> send them something and ask them to pick out what they are interested in. We have <br /> been through this with the landfill site search . <br /> Sassaman suggests a simple approach for arraying the technologies including <br /> maturity, experience in other places, amount of storage capacity, etc . <br /> Grunwald states that my big questions would be why did they come up with this, <br /> why do they want this, what are the chances of anything really happening . As a <br /> voluntary advisory board can we say ' no thank you . ' It would be a huge waste of <br /> time and money to come up with this consultancy if we are just going through a feel <br /> good process that is going to get rejected . <br /> Sassaman states that they are genuinely interested to an alternative to shipping <br /> material out of the county . We cant sit on the notion that ' we tried it 25 years ago and <br /> it didn t work' . Technologies change and I hear more and more the argument that it' s <br /> nities . We are recycling more and there is a lot <br /> unethical to dump on other commu <br /> less mercury and lead which are issues to think about if we consider incineration . <br /> Pollock asks if the board wants to make this an action item . <br /> Norwood asks do we pick a number we want the consultants to look at and do we <br /> give them a timeframe of when we want the information back . <br /> 8 <br />