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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board April 3, 2008 Approved May 1, 2008 Tipton states that the recyclables processing there was a cell with a recommendation to move forward on that. Pollock notes that the short term plan shows more commingling and the labor saved from not processing was to be devoted to collecting more recyclables . Tipton then notes that the next thing is saying the [issue of] rural residential is still out there for discussion. The next is the drop off centers [which] are still out for discussion . The commercial/ non-residential waste and recycling collection is that county, city, is it waste and recycling? I ' m not clear on that one . Pollock states that it incorporated all the governments ' activities and the private activities, so trying to summarize and put it in one cell in a table limited that amount we could detail . At the time this memo went out, what we were trying to convey was those were the pieces that were being worked on last week . That could become part of action pending in the sense that it was clear in our next communication with the work group we will define the waste part, as there seemed to be a consensus among the work group to let commercial garbage continue to be collected as it is now . [This would] separate out the part about recycling and provide essentially an option that was going to be a publicly financed and operated recycling program but also leave some sub options in there [about how this could be practically done] . For example, now most businesses have cardboard recycling dumpsters but markets have changed enough so most paper could also be put in there . Should a sub option be to look at that as a sub option for recycling or should the County take it over or franchise that element in what would otherwise be a publicly controlled or operated Tipton states that I would recommend that the waste part should be separate from the recycling part, as decisions have been made on waste . Consensus is achieved on this by SWAB . Vickers notes there seems to be no cost savings for franchising commercial waste, but possibly for residential or commercial rural waste . Pollock states that it is fair to state where the work is and isn' t in the document going forward . Bear in mind this memo was prior to making that decision . We will separate the decision on commercial, show there is not a lot of potential savings and the recycling piece will have some further analysis on commercial . Action is needed on rural residential collection that is integrally related to the option of charging at the convenience centers . Without a charge at the centers or prepaid collection like recycling there is no good price savings likely from franchise . 5