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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board February 5, 2009 Approved March 5, 2009 Hauser states that we started down this path to say what if had a little delay and needed to use a vendor while we built capacity . Now looking at a $7 - $10 million capital investment plus some amount of money, we use a half million to a million a year, to run it and over ten years because we were told it was an interim solution, not a long- term solution that comes out to $50 - $ 70 per ton. The vendors told us between $40 and $50 per ton to operate it. Sassaman asks did the vendors specify what type of waste transfer station they would build . Would it be indoors, out doors, etc ? When we make these comparisons it must be apples -to -apples . You can build a tin roof over a hole in the ground for less than $5 million. Hauser concurs . I thought at a SWAB meeting Olver said they could build a transfer station at Eubanks for $250, 000 . I understand what you are saying . The crux of the question was since it is going to cost us this much money to build and operate it ourselves what would it cost us to use a vendor . That is where we came with the vendors came back and this was with no contract if I were to bring my garbage today on a per ton rate that it would be $40 to $50 per ton at their facilities . We actually threw in an extra eight to ten miles per ton because we think that the waste transfer stations might be further from the centroid than the Howell site . Sassaman asks what is the assumption of how the waste is collected and delivered to the waste transfer station . Hauser replies collected as-is but we assumed at first it would cost $ . 75 per ton per mile in a six ton truck and $ . 75 per ton per mile to haul the waste from a further distance if the vendor were further than the Howell property . The message here is not should be go to vendors although it could be . The real question is, before we build a waste transfer station out in the country on the way to nowhere, should we take even a few years to see if a regional solution makes sense for waste to energy, figure out where we want to go with that, and where ever that gets sited RTP, Durham, Chatham, next to the OWASA plant, shouldn' t we make that decision first then decide where the waste transfer station would be if we needed one at all . Sassaman asks how long will it take Orange County to develop and site a waste to energy facility . Hauser states that assuming we have a regional waste to energy solution it would take three to five years to come up with a regional mix who are our partners and where to do it, but once we know where it is going to go and who we are going to do it with then we can decide on the waste transfer station . If a waste transfer station in an industrial center where there is water and sewer the timetable to site, permit and build is probably a year shorter than the one that we are building . 7