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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> September 3, 2009 <br /> Approved November 5, 2009 <br /> Wilson states that any vision that staff might have on this regard would be the <br /> convenience centers primary use would shift to a primary use of recycling and a <br /> secondary use for waste collection for those [who] for whatever reason need to use the <br /> SWCCs for waste . <br /> Smith asks if there is much dumping at the unmanned sites such as the one behind <br /> Home Depot in Hillsborough. <br /> Taylor states that there is a significant amount of illegal dumping at the unstaffed 24 <br /> hour / day recycling sites . They are cleaned five days a week . It is basically a 20 / hr <br /> week job to visit all the sites . The sites are treated fairly well by the citizens, but there <br /> are bulky goods left there and residential garbage in bags also . <br /> Pollock states that we have already discussed the decision item regarding <br /> modernization and redistribution of the convenience centers . This is an interesting <br /> and interactive issue . Looking at the map of the Monday night BOCC agenda item, <br /> you can see the distribution possible . We could invest in the centers that we know <br /> will stay around like Eubanks Rd . and High Rock Rd . to improve their function and <br /> make them safer for the public . In the northeast there has been a demand for <br /> collection of hazardous waste . We bump up against the fiscal constraint. How will <br /> the services and changes be paid for - a fee, a tax, or do nothing? <br /> Do you all think it is a useful thing to modernize the centers in the ways described <br /> ity ? Things are bad now but they could be <br /> and how important is geographic equ <br /> better . We own 2 1/2 sites now and the others we have good long-terms leases . We <br /> own property at a future park out [on] Schely Rd . We could consolidate Ferguson <br /> and Bradshaw into a new site possibly on Hwy 54 . <br /> Yuhasz states that looking at the basic numbers given tonight, which is there are <br /> roughly 20, 000 families in the unincorporated part of the county . It is roughly costing <br /> $2 million a year to keep the centers open which work out to be about <br /> $100 / family / year to handle their solid waste . I understand that it doesn' t account for <br /> the transportation cost from their home to the centers . With franchising it would <br /> roughly be $400 / family / year . I am not sure that most people in the county are going <br /> to see the benefit in paying that extra $300 / year . I need a reason for us to go forward <br /> doing this . That is what I am having a hard time with. I understand we want to make <br /> improvements to the centers but are they necessary improvements . I ' d like to know <br /> what the external reasons are for looking at the way the centers are operated so that I <br /> can factor that into the decision making process . <br /> Pollock states that with regards to franchising, using the Olver report numbers of <br /> $21 . 40 times twelve come out to a little less than $400 [more like $258] . The point is <br /> 11 <br />