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Minutes mmm Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> February 5, 2009 <br /> Approved March 5, 2009 <br /> Hauser states that the decision on the table is not should we in-source or out-source <br /> our waste management. The decision on the table is we have not a very appealing site <br /> for a transfer station so before we go ahead with it and our long term vision seems to <br /> be to go to waste-to-energy before we go down this path with this undesirable site <br /> should we rely on vendors on an interim basis only for our municipal waste, not <br /> recycling or any other services, until we have a better option. <br /> Sassaman asks for collection, disposal or both . <br /> Hauser replies just disposal . Instead of doing the waste transfer station, in the middle <br /> of the country where there is no water and sewer, it' s 23 miles from the centroid, <br /> should we rely on vendors to handle that on an interim basis until we figure out <br /> where we are going long term . That is the only question we are asking . <br /> Vickers states that the SWAB has not taken a position on in-sourcing or out-sourcing <br /> while there are opinions, there is no position. The issue is does it make sense for the <br /> County in that position. There are different opinions on that. <br /> Blake asks why does UNC out source so much of theirs and why is there so much out- <br /> sourcing in the county already . <br /> Vickers states that UNC is 11 % of the waste in the county . They are a much smaller <br /> operation . Their business is not solid waste, it is to run the university . <br /> Spire states that it all comes down to the time frame . Is it 5 years, 10 years, Hary will <br /> tell you the Town of Chapel Hill cannot operate longer than four or five months <br /> without major changes to staff, trucks etc . ? <br /> Hary concurs . <br /> Spire notes that the distance one way to Durham is 23 miles so there are a lot more <br /> miles traveled . Is this for two months or ten years ? <br /> Blake states that the question is not whether there has to be a waste transfer station <br /> there is a question about where it will be, but there has to be a waste transfer station <br /> in any scenario . <br /> Sassaman asks how many years have we been working to site a waste transfer station. <br /> Hauser replies a year . <br /> 19 <br />