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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> June 3, 2009 <br /> August 6, 2009 <br /> Sallach states that we are not to the point of being ready to finalize it. It would be <br /> somewhat comparable or a little better than Eubanks Rd . when you factor in all the <br /> community specifics . <br /> What I want to present is that you will have a site that is very highly ranked from a <br /> technical standpoint, then you will have a site [on Millhouse] in the middle of these <br /> eleven sites of the community-specific criteria when we are finished with this . It is <br /> important to recognize what the drivers of those community specifics are . Through <br /> any evaluation you will see a higher ranking if it' s further away from less populated <br /> areas . <br /> Norwood states that it seems, and I hate to say it, that this site because of its proximity <br /> to the highway, how short of a distance a semi has to go to get there plus the fact that <br /> the trucks and the garbage is already there, financially this would get a high rating . <br /> Sallach states that it is fair to say that if you look and compare the direct and off route <br /> haul cost from the transfer evaluation there is some significant economic <br /> considerations with this site versus the location of site 56 . <br /> Sassaman states that it seems to me that this site from an operational standpoint, <br /> operational being all those functional things of proximity to the waste centroid and <br /> long-haul transport routes, and rail, should be superior . Also from an environmental <br /> standpoint, it should have a lot of benefits, because of the issue of the lower carbon <br /> footprint. The one questionable area is some of those community specific issues of <br /> proximity to populations, schools, and competing traffic needs . <br /> How easy is it to quantify those demographics of the whole social economic arena? <br /> Have you tried to do it? <br /> Sallach states that that is part of the evaluation now in terms of looking at the impacts <br /> to residences . We are looking at 500 and 1000 ft. zones, school, churches and that type <br /> of thing . When you look at all the sites, the one thing we do see there will be a <br /> grouping of sites in general there will be 2 or 3 sites that are superior and then there <br /> will be a grouping of 4 or 5 sites that basically, while you go through and assign <br /> numbers in accordance with the ranking weighting criteria, for all intents and <br /> purposes they are all equal . <br /> Vickers asks what do you consider the site, the whole triangle [of land north of the <br /> Town Operations Center] . How much is the county going to buy? <br /> Sallach states that one of the things that is on the table is that question and whether to <br /> lease or buy . <br /> 8 <br />