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Minutes - Special Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> March 31 , 2009 <br /> Approved May 7, 2009 <br /> ilities for that ten-year period rather than having an in-county <br /> to the private fac <br /> transfer station . <br /> Yuhasz states that is the essence of the question . Is that number 1 year, 5 years, or 15 <br /> years ? <br /> Reynolds states that question is, " What is the likelihood of an in-county WtE facility <br /> or some other in-county option in the next 5, 10, 15 or 20 years ? " What we have said <br /> is that is pretty unlikely to have a WtE facility in-county in the next 20 years . <br /> Wilson states that if you are thinking about a WtE in-county for Orange County waste <br /> only then you shouldn' t worry about how much extra hauling costs there is in the <br /> mean time but the $40 to $50 million it will cost to build the WtE facility . <br /> Vickers states that all this started with the centroid of waste being in this general area . <br /> I ' d like to see a baseline of actually located the centroid of the waste in the county is <br /> how efficient is any of these decisions economically as it affects the tax payer . How <br /> much of our decision is really getting towards the optimum costs? You have the <br /> numbers because Eubanks Road is pretty close to that centroid . <br /> Tipton asks Bonnie Hauser on the $0 . 75 ton/ mile, this is on the off-route hauling? <br /> Hauser replies yes it is an industry standard from the vendors of what you are calling <br /> off-route hauling . <br /> Ray Kirby states that most of the times when you get ready to build a house the first <br /> thing you do is buy the land . Have you bought the land? That has not been figured <br /> in on your costs . Howell has said that you buy 142 acres or nothing . You all are <br /> talking about buying 25 acres . I don' t think you are going to get it. He is not going to <br /> sell it to you unless you all go out and take it from him . <br /> Robert Campbell states that I am more concerned about the temporary transfer <br /> station . Have you begun to get permits and where have you identified a site for a <br /> temporary transfer station - not on Eubanks Rd . Just like the folks on Hwy 54, we <br /> need to find a true alternative to our waste problem . Waste transfer station is not it. <br /> You are talkmi g about a waste transfer station with a life of 20 years . We are talking <br /> about $4 . 9 million every 20 years to build a transfer station where we can use new <br /> technology . We are in an area where you have a university that has great resources of <br /> grey matter that we can come up with a better alternative than sending our waste to <br /> someone else ' s county when we don' t know how it is going to be treated . <br /> Do we want our trash to go into a landfill that is operated almost like Orange County <br /> landfill where it does not take in regards of the health impact that a landfill has on the <br /> 13 <br />