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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board May 7, 2009 Approved June 3, 2009 Attendance : Jan Sassaman, Bonnie Norwood, Linda Bowerman, Al Vickers, Remus Smith, Steve Yuhasz, and Doug Guild Staff: Blair Pollock, Paul Spire, and Wanda McCain 1 . Open & Welcome Sassaman states that before getting to the agenda items there are two pieces of housekeeping that need to be addressed . There are people here from the public that have signed up to speak . The other issue is Board member comments . That has typically been at the top of the agenda . In the past few months its use has fallen off. It seems that to continue to have this item it may be more appropriate to have it at the end of the agenda because there are some things that might come up during the meeting that may generate comments . 2 . Adoption of Minutes from March 31 and April 2 SWAB meetings Smith moves to accept the March 31 minutes . Norwood 2nd . Passes unanimously . Norwood moves to accept the April 2 minutes . Bowerman 2nd . Passes unanimously 3 . Transfer Station Site Search Update Wilson states that at the April 21St BOCC meeting there was a substantial discussion of the status of the environmental evaluations, the report on contingency plan, and some discussion on the various financial analysis on hauling that had been performed . The Board adopted the manager' s recommendation to hire a law firm to be available in the event that a lawsuit resulted from the transfer station site search process . The Board directed the County manager to bring back to the BOCC the final ruling from the County Planning Department once the Planning Department received all the information from the State clearing house regarding the various environmental issues related to site 056 known as the Howell property . There will be a work session in which the Town Councils will be invited as well as the SWAB, which will be on May 14th at 7pm at the Southern Human Services Center where there will be a broader discussion of the transfer station siting process . One of the options in the contingency report was a temporary transfer operation on Eubanks Rd . They determined that there would not be a temporary transfer operation on Eubanks Rd . An environmental impact statement or a rough equivalent of an environmental impact statement would be performed on the Howell property . Staff was requested to speak to the Orange Grove Fire Department about fire issues related to a possible transfer station on Hwy 54 . Sassaman states that at the request of the Commissioners I made a statement on behalf of the SWAB . That is in the minutes of the BOCC meeting. It was a summary of the memo we sent to them . [passes out some copies of the statement] 1