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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board September 4, 2008 Approved October 2, 2008 Attendance : Jan Sassaman, Bonnie Norwood, Linda Bowerman, Al Vickers, Remus Smith, and Michelle Grunwald Staff: Blair Pollock, Paul Spire, and Wanda McCain 1 . Adoption of Minutes from August 7 SWAB meeting Norwood moves to accept. Vickers 2nd . Passes unanimously 2 . Board Member Comments Smith states that I didn' t want to say what I ' m about to say at the last meeting because I didn ' t think it was appropriate . I remember when I was about six years old, Durham was burning their garbage . I remember the things came in a Model T or Model A truck and the men were shoveling it into the furnace - just a steel single wall pipe in the early thirties . Also some 30 years ago Hillsborough had a landfill . About every two years it would catch on fire by some mysterious way . The downwind neighbors didn ' t like that. The gentleman [on the recycling truck] that comes by every Wednesday does a good job . I sit and watch him pickup about 4 or 6 different houses — he ' s hustling . Also, at the SWCC north of Hwy 86, I ' ve been hauling stuff from my home and those three men are as helpful as they can be . Last week you [Gayle] mentioned that the New Hanover [waste combustion] plant was going to close, can you tell me why? Wilson states that the New Hanvoer County Board of Commissioners contains some members who have historically been hostile to the incinerator . Inside sources indicate that there are Commissioner relationships with private waste companies who have lobbied that landfilling is cheaper, etc . and that the incinerator should be closed and private landfills utilized . This issue has arisen several times over the past couple of decades . Now it would appear to make even less sense to close it as the debt service is being paid off this year I believe . Norwood states that at one of the neighborhood meetings someone was complaining that they could not get the SWAB minutes . Can you mail Rev . Campbell the minutes ? Gayle states that we can mail him the last two and tell him how he can find future ones on our website . Norwood states that occasionally everyone [at the Eubanks Convenience Center] disappears and one car will sneak into the SWCC and the guy will be sitting in the office thinking he is safe and that person will steal everything they can get their hands on because they think they are not being watched . So a heads up to pay attention to 1