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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board May 7, 2009 Approved June 3, 2009 Yuhasz states that in the five months serving as a Commissioner I have not heard any iversity that that would be a place to site a transfer station or suggestion from the Un any other facility . Hauser states that in some transient comment Caroline Efland had mentioned the notion of Carolina North being used for a plasma gasification facility in the long term . So it would seem to me if they would be open to a waste -to - energy facility they might be interested in a waste transfer station as a phase one . Just a comment. Yuhasz states that as part of the parallel tract effort made there were overtures made to the University for cooperation on waste-to - energy and I ' m sure there would have been discussions about potential for siting a waste transfer station at that property . I think if that was a viable suggestion we would have heard about it by now . 4 . Solid Waste Department Budget Update Wilson states that it has been a tough year for all departments . We have all had to submit a budget with 10 % reduction from the budget that was approved for this year . (Hands out draft budget to be presented to the itation Division some possible budget reductions could be . manager) In the San • Miscellaneous cuts in the amount of $92, 000 . • Free dump permits be eliminated . • Mattresses no longer accepted at the SWCCs . We are suggesting that when people buy new mattress they have the old ones hauled away by the company they purchased the new one from or find a way to get them to the landfill themselves . • Closing one of the SWCCs- Bradshaw Quarry Rd . It is the least used and doesn' t have the full array of our services . It is a very small site with no opportunity to expand . • Closing all the SWCCs on Thursday, Wednesday (as is currently done) , and Sunday and close an hour early all other times . That would be a savings of $120, 000 . Users may not like it and the Board may not like it, you can' t save without cutting costs . The BOCC will determine what will ' give' . For the non-Sanitation budget of the enterprise fund possible budget cuts of $400, 000 are : • Eliminate interns including one we' ve had since 1990 . • Reduced materials like stone for maintenance . • Cut back on training, but no specific programs were eliminated . Norwood states that regarding cutting the hours for the SWCC is the last hour of the day the least used time or is it from 7 - 8 in the morning . Wilson states that usually the last hour of the day is the slowest. 9