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Minutes - Special Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> March 31 , 2009 <br /> Approved May 7, 2009 <br /> residents that live around a landfill . If we are more progressive and if we are talking <br /> about sustain ill in economic growth, why not be like the people in Greensboro ? <br /> Their waste facility is not around any residents and they took in mind when they got <br /> ready to build their transfer station that we are not going to impact the community <br /> that was impacted when we were operating a landfill . We have to be more <br /> progressive in our selection of what we do with our waste . Why are we going to send <br /> our waste to be a problem for someone else when we cannot resolve the issue of <br /> whether we want a waste transfer station or a WtE station. Which one would make <br /> the better economic sense ? I think our problem is we don' t want to collaborate with <br /> other counties to generate the amount of waste to have a WtE station . <br /> Neloa Jones states that I live in the Rogers-Eubanks community . That is a community <br /> as most of you know has borne more than their share of holding the garbage for <br /> Orange County, as I think the count now is 37 years . My concern is that perhaps the <br /> county is consideringconsidering <br /> a temporary transfer station or perhaps you are considng <br /> after all has been said and done locating a permanent transfer station in the <br /> community . What I am feeling tonight, I want to continue to trust the county to keep <br /> its word that it will not site a transfer station on Eubanks . I don' t think many people <br /> in this room can fathom what it is like to live in a landfill community . I truly believe if <br /> just imagine then you would be much more empathetic and take much <br /> you could <br /> more care in making sure that a solid waste facility was sited in a area where it could <br /> not impact communities in a way that this landfill has impacted the community <br /> [where] I live . <br /> I ' ve heard people say that this is the best place to put the landfill from a technical <br /> perspective . I' ve heard it say it' s more economical . That may be the case, but those <br /> issues are not the issues we need to consider . I think that what we have to do as Mr . <br /> Campbell said, is organize as counties and talk about ways to deal with our garbage <br /> issues that we need not transfer out of the county . This is our garbage and I think if <br /> we become more responsible and stop burdening small communities, rural <br /> communities, helpless communities, communities that don ' t have resources to say <br /> " no " as my community will say and will continue say because we are not going to be <br /> able to continue to accept this burden and you shouldn' t continue to expect us to . I <br /> think that we have to do what is best and what is right. I trust you will do the right <br /> thing and we ' ll help you think through this problem . <br /> Susan Walser states that it is 11 miles from the centroid or Eubanks to the 54 site and <br /> that' s driving Homestead to Old 86 out to 54 . I know that is the route they take <br /> because I drive behind the trucks . If it is 11 miles from here how can the average <br /> miles on your estimates be 8 . 7? The other question is we were at the Greensboro <br /> transfer station, a wonderful facility, we spoke with Jerri Covington, it is on 10 acres <br /> in an in location, [with] water, sewer . She said the cost was $ 9 million. I don' t <br /> understand how Orange County can build one on 25 acres which the land they are <br /> 14 <br />