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Minutes mmom Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> May 7, 2009 <br /> Approved June 3, 2009 <br /> Another thing that hasn ' t been discussed is when you put all the costs together do the <br /> Towns know how much more a waste transfer station in Bingham or anywhere will <br /> cost over the cost of using the current landfill . That is assuming all the recycling <br /> subsidies are taken out. What are the real costs to tip garbage into this landfill versus <br /> a waste transfer station? I ' m guessing it is roughly double . You the Solid Waste <br /> Advisory Board your job is to represent the citizens we are not sure that we were <br /> properly served in this last board meeting . You are being asked to serve the board as <br /> experts to the Board we would ask please let the Board and the Town leaders know <br /> the truth in what their real options are for solid waste management. <br /> Robert Campbell states I found out about a meeting that was to take place last Friday . <br /> I found out about it Wednesday evening . Thursday morning I called the Town of <br /> Chapel Hill to see what the meeting was about. The mayor of the Town of Chapel <br /> Hill had called some of the members that was on the [Rogers Road] Small Area Task <br /> Force and invited them to come to a meeting Friday morning . The proposed site on <br /> Millhouse Rd . was the subject of discussion about placing a transfer station on <br /> Millhouse Rd . Millhouse Rd . is a part of the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood <br /> community . We have always said " no " to a transfer station and " no " to expanding the <br /> landfill operation. <br /> Whether you know about this meeting or whether you know this to be true or not, <br /> today I get a phone call there is going to be another meeting tomorrow at 3pm down <br /> by the Chapel Hill Operations Center to walk over the land that is the proposed site . <br /> If you have any true interest in not being a part of this you should be there tomorrow <br /> at 3pm to walk with Mayor Foy of the Town of Chapel Hill and those that will gather <br /> together to walk over this property . You have an opportunity to voice your opinion <br /> for or against but don' t be kept in the dark or don' t pretend to be kept in the dark <br /> about what is happening on Eubanks Rd . <br /> The operation of this landfill has gone on for 30 + years . I know that there are voices <br /> that say we have to put it somewhere but there was a site that was proposed by UNC <br /> and the people that are developing Carolina North, they put that piece of property out <br /> there when they thought they were going to put an airport on 54 . You probably <br /> haven' t heard this being discussed but it has been . Why put it on Eubanks Rd . when <br /> you can put it on Carolina North. They have acres they are not going to develop in 50 <br /> years . It is not an appropriate thing to put out here . You are already dealing with the <br /> UPS trucks, school buses, the Town Operations Center and their trucks and vehicles, <br /> Solid Waste and Recycling, and the Transit buses how are you going to control the <br /> eighteen wheelers that will coming down Eubanks and Millhouse Rd . There is <br /> enough congestion out here already . The people in this community have endured the <br /> operations of municipal facilities too long . I know that the County is talking about <br /> hiring a lawyer in case there may be some litigation but there will be some more <br /> litigation . It is time to start looking at the humanity side of things and not the <br /> 6 <br />