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Minutes Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board June 3, 2009 August 6, 2009 things and there is only money for 12 and the decision will have to be made of what is critical . It is unfortunate, but it is the County Commissioners' job . Wilson states that one additional comment to follow up on Linda' s concern is the BOCC has already determined that once a site has been selected a citizens advisory committee of the neighbors surrounding that will have substantive role in nities, mitigation for noise and traffic . Once the determining how it is developed, ame decision has been made for the site, staff will move to formulate that committee and get them working before the facility is even designed . Norwood states that we must be absolutely sure that the County is who will dictate what we request, what Gayle was saying, because if Chapel Hill, because we are on Chapel Hill ' s property, if we are under their jurisdiction might as well not have the meeting because they are going to do what they want regardless of what the committee says . Yuhasz states that the County is in charge of this . I would like to express my appreciation to the SWAB and all the people that have been involved in looking at all these issues for much longer than I have . I think the Commissioners and the county can' t express enough their appreciation for the work that this group does . 4 . Programs/Services Update Solar Tech South — Interest in Solar Photovoltaic Project at Landfill Pollock states that the Economic Development department indicated that there was a company based in Orange County that wanted to create a photovoltaic solar electric generating array somewhere in Orange County - the direct conversion of sunlight to electricity . We indicated as the landfill there might be some land that would be suitable - the closed C &D landfill . The footprint of the site is about 11 acres . They came out with Economic Development to look at it and determined that about 3 . 5 acres is suitable for their type of application. There are two things about this project that are exciting and interesting . One is that the County has chosen an economic development strategy to attract a solar cluster . The interesting piece is that there are very few compatible uses for closed landfill sites . They can ' t bear a lot of traffic or buildings with foundations that have to penetrate the cap . A project like this, which wouldn ' t generate any people traffic, is just about as ideal as it gets . We have continued to work with Economic Development and Solar Tech South . On the 16th they will be coming to the Commissioners with a brief presentation . It is not obvious how the economics will work for the project but they look pretty sound in general with the respect to the development of electricity and the sale of electricity from the site . 16