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Minutes - Special Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> March 31 , 2009 <br /> Approved May 7, 2009 <br /> in Durham or RTP and that our collection trucks would go to those sites and tip into <br /> those transfer stations until we found a better site . If Chapel Hill has a site they <br /> should offer it up . <br /> Pollock states that in the case of the Towns did you look at the opportunity costs, the <br /> forgone costs, to the Towns . If they spend that hour off route and they have a <br /> diminished hour of productivity does the $0 . 75 / mile account for making up that hour <br /> for getting back on the street? <br /> Hauser states that I didn' t use an hour . I used a $0 . 75 number . We can get into the <br /> details of incremental costs of [Hwy] 54 versus the vendor sites etc . but what we used <br /> is a standard all-in rate . We didn' t want to get into the detail of routing, the peoples' <br /> time, how the trucks are staffed, how they are used, how much trash is coming out of <br /> the convenience centers, nor the 40 % of the trash that is being handled by private <br /> vendors . It is a complicated question. Chapel Hill is not the only collection operation <br /> that we are serving . I think Orange County is serving all those collection operations . <br /> Wilson states that the interlocal agreement anticipated a transfer station . It wasn' t just <br /> designed around a landfill . <br /> Hauser states that based on everything that has happened, we are not questioning <br /> whether or not Orange County should build a transfer station. We think if there was <br /> a good site it would be much more cost effective . Rural [Hwy] 54 is not that site . <br /> Based on all our work it is our understanding that the Commissioners and certainly <br /> the community at this point want to know how much will it cost to build and operate <br /> a waste transfer station on rural Hwy 54 . Not to understand a 20 year comparison to <br /> vendors but as a benchmark to understanding and the benefits of selecting a better <br /> site . The Commissioners also want to know if the County can rely on vendors to take <br /> our trash on an interim basis until a better site is selected . Our definition of abetter <br /> site means 5 acres or more in a commercialin or dustrial area with water and sewer <br /> near a highway and ideally near rail and power and, most of all, close to where the <br /> waste is generated . We hope once we clarify the cost that the SWAB will join us <br /> asking for a report that will clarify the options that are available to this community . <br /> Vickers states that in the past the board has looked at going out of county for a <br /> transfer station. <br /> Hauser states that no one is questioning the value or quality of the solid waste <br /> operations nor if it is a better option for Orange County to put a waste transfer station <br /> in the county . We don' t have a site that works and that is the issue . What do we do <br /> now ? We sat at the Commissioner meetings where they stated more than once that <br /> the trash will pile up, we don' t have an option, we have to make this decision now we <br /> 5 <br />