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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> May 7, 2009 <br /> Approved June 3, 2009 <br /> economic part of it. Too long has the community suffered . It is time to be <br /> responsible . We need to learn how to handle our trash more . We need to have the <br /> human side of what all this is doing to the ecosystem out here and the lives that <br /> depend on it. Where is the future for the community out here if we are going to keep <br /> id waste facilities . It is time for us to begin <br /> being impacted by the operations of the sol <br /> to do the right thing . <br /> I know of the many times that I have spoken to the different boards and spoken here . <br /> 1 know you hear me but are you hearing what I ' m saying . Enough is enough . There <br /> are other ways of dealing with our waste and there are other ways of dealing with the <br /> situation we have here . We can either find something we can all work together with <br /> or we can work in our own way to come up with a solution to the pollution this <br /> operation has caused this community . <br /> Guild states that this is the first I ' ve heard any of the information and it is a little <br /> surprising . Steve if I may ask has there been any communication from the Board to <br /> the Town of Chapel Hill about assisting with the selection of a site . <br /> Yuhasz states that there hasn ' t been any communication that he is aware of from <br /> Chapel Hill to the BOCC on a site . Rev . Campbell has said that there is a meeting . <br /> That is a meeting that I was not aware of. <br /> Norwood asks Steve if this board went to the BOCC and said " Don' t you dare" , what <br /> impact would it really have ? The paper I have here says the ultimate site selection is <br /> the responsibility of the Commissioners . What I ' m really asking is how much power <br /> do we really have . I think there is an assumption that we have more and if we have <br /> more I ' d like to play with it. But I' m not aware we have any . <br /> Yuhasz states that at the risk of speaking for the Board, I believe the BOCC listens to <br /> all the comments and all the groups that speak to it. I think the BOCC looks at SWAB <br /> as a technical advisory board . To the extent that recommendations are technical in <br /> nature, I think the BOCC gives great weight to those recommendations . I think that <br /> those that are not technical, but rather political I think the Commissioners are likely to <br /> give less weight to that recommendation . <br /> Norwood clarifies if we are going with our guts and following the public and the <br /> residents here, that is not going to carry any weight. We would have to come up with <br /> a technical reason why as a board [we would oppose the site] . <br /> Yuhasz states that as a board that is probably true . As an individual [or] a non- <br /> technical recommendation yours would be given as much weight as every other <br /> citizen. <br /> 7 <br />