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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board January 15, 2009 Approved February 5, 2009 in the garbage " . Once those have been applied we will put out signs all over Carrboro that also say ' no cardboard in the garbage,_ recycle it. ' They plan to make that their main approach rather than enforcement. In Chapel Hill they have gone door to door telling them not to put it in the garbage . We don' t know what Hillsborough is doing. 4 . Solid Waste Planning Update and Discussion Pollock states that the work group met in November and made some decision about the direction it wants to proceed as far as recommendations to the Board regarding the convenience centers and rural waste collection. The essential recommendations are to stay status quo on the number of convenience centers and look at franchising more closely as a way to get everyone on board and look at charging for bulky waste but not solid waste in the near term . A specific recommendation will be made on that. We did not get to the commercial. For the up coming meeting, they are already planning their financial plan analysis . They will distribute staff and equipment allocations worksheets to help us get our overall budget picture in a long-term plan. There will be similar worksheets for escalation variables . [There are] Transfer station and waste transfer capital and operating models which they will work with Gayle and the consultant on and then the overall enterprise fund workbook that will consolidate all the assumptions about landfill and transfer station tipping fees; 3R fees, recycling revenues and all the other revenues that comprise the enterprise fund . . The objective is to still have a completed plan to the Commissioners this calendar- year . Sassaman asks when is the next meeting. Pollock states that it hasn' t been set yet but possibly late February . Sassaman asks what else needs to be done to get it to the. Commissioners . What other decision points are there ? Pollock states that some kind of more detail on the commercial options . There is a vagary in the process . The work group is mostly public - the SWAB, elected officials and staff. There aren ' t any businesses that are going to be the primary client of the commercial part of the plan on the work group . Once the options are shaped clearly it will be a question of how to drag that in front of the commercial people again. They've seen quite a bit already . The financials will be in a model . There will be a lot of " ifAhen" s . If the transfer station looks like it will cost $65 per ton to operate, what is the impact of that, if that shifts waste to the recycling side, then what happens to the transfer station side ? Should you assume no revenue from recyclables for the next five years and fund everything with 3-R fees ? What about funding SWCC' s with a pay as you throw fee ? Once that set of decisions is finalized, you can recommend a financial 3