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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board September 3, 2009 Approved November 5, 2009 Attendance : Jan Sassaman, Linda Bowerman, Al Vickers, Remus Smith, Doug Guild, Steve Yuhasz, and BJ Tipton Staff: Blair Pollock, Paul Spire, Rob Taylor, Terry Thomas, Hary Howard, and Wanda McCain 1 . Opening and Welcome Sassaman states that Bonnie Norwood is ill and won ' t be here tonight. There is a card here for her for you all to sign if you ' d like . Please get it back to me by the end of the meeting and I will get it mailed tomorrow . Tonight we have a major item of business to deal with, which is to restart the process of the solid waste management plan. We hope to kick off the work group next month . We will need to fill one of the elected official ' s positions . As most of you know, Bill Strom, Chapel Hill Councilman, has resigned and hopefully Chapel Hill will fill that slot. Tonight Blair will be leading us through the process of identifying and giving us some preliminary talking points and decision points we need to make . Then we will have a quick report on the transfer station site search. 2 . Adoption of Minutes from August 6 SWAB meeting Smith moves to accept. Vickers 2nd . Passes unanimously 3 . Solid Waste Management Plan Decision Points and Strategy for Unincorporated Area Waste Management Pollock states that as we got ready to reengage in the solid waste plan it became clear that trying to serve the whole ' meal' , all the decisions at once, was an overwhelming task . Prior to going forward with the whole menu we have made some staff-level decisions that might be more fruitful to convene the Solid Waste Advisory Board to focus on each course at a time . The first course is the work in the unincorporated areas . Part of the reason that it has come to the fore is the issue around the closure of the Bradshaw Quarry convenience center and the cut back of hours due to our budgetary constraints . So we bundled the issues related to the unincorporated areas . In no particular order with respect to priority, because they all intermesh, they are -- the decision to provide franchise waste collection service for predominately residential waste, secondarily to provide franchise collection for nonresidential/ business waste . The sub-choices are to either provide as part of the residential franchise, as a stand-alone, or coupled to some other animal such as the Hillsborough nonresidential franchise is one that came up . The next two decision sets are related to the convenience center operations -- how to finance them and should we work with the current set of convenience centers, assuming that Bradshaw is permanently closed . A decision has to be made for geographic equity around the county . If you divide the county into four quadrants, Eubanks would be the center for the southeast quadrant, Walnut Grove is for the 1