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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board February 5, 2009 Approved March 5, 2009 don' t think they would accept the transfer station in exchange for those amenities . A stipulation they had was to put the transfer station elsewhere . Norwood states that part of the problem there is jurisdiction . The neighborhood is now split between Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the County . Pollock notes the combination of other extraterritorial jurisdiction, rural buffer, OWASA services boundaries . Some of the community is served by sewer and some isri t. Wilson states that since the Board has assigned some responsibility for the SWAB for helping to review and look at the information, there may be a need for additional meetings as we start producing some more analysis and work . Sassaman states to Gayle that once we have finished discussing this, I ' d like to invite Orange County Voice and anyone else in the audience to speak to this and then ask you to be a little more specific about what the SWAB ' s role will be as you see it or you think the BOCC might see it. Vickers states that one of the issues from the Towns ' point of view when looking at different options for transferring waste is each city will have a different financial impact depending on the final destination of their municipal waste (i . e . distance to the transfer station wi11 matter differently to each of the three Towns and the County) Sassaman states that there are other issues in addition to financial that are important. The issue of carbon footprint, impacts on road structures, effect on traffic quantity . Also what is important, whatever evaluation is done or the considerations made, incorporate how this will fit within the interlocal agreement. It should be recognized that solid waste is a complex system in Orange County, it not only involves waste collection and disposal but also recycling . Layered on top of that is the goal as a county to achieve 61 % waste reduction . Pollock asks Hary Howard of the Town of Chapel Hill as the opportunities to look at privatizing go forward, does the Town have any position they plan to put forward regarding what might happen if all the waste in the Town is privatized and out of your control if you will . Howard states that solid waste collecting in Chapel Hill is not just going to someone' s house and picking up the garbage . There are parties, events, dead animals, and a large recycling program . Anytime you look at privatizing a system you have to look at the entire aspect of community values . There is a cost for everything that you would bring in a private company to do . It' s not just a hauling and collecting type of business . If something happens at 5pm in the afternoon, most private guys are gone . 4