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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board September 3 , 2009 Approved November 5, 2009 well taken. We are pretty much at the limit of what the centers can do especiallys we reduce the hours . As the rural population grows and more houses come into being it will be difficult to handle much more material there . The other issues are around flow control of the waste we don' t capture now and the idea that [we want to] to make it easier and safer for people [to manage their waste] . Sassaman states that I am struggling with understanding all the issues and know upon what basis to make my own judgment. It seems that we should be looking at some criteria or guiding principles to weigh the alternatives against. It was sort of done in the work group, but it should be re-looked at because of the economy and things have changed over the past two years . Yuhasz states that I am not necessarily saying we should not spend more I just want to know why we should . Wilson states that there are a lot of issues and sub-issues . For the citizen that delivers stuff to the centers their time and fuel is not free . And how do you monetize emissions which are not free either . Dumpsters leak, front loading trucks leak, it is easier to clean up and keep the leaking liquids out of the ground . We can do a cheaper version too . What we are trying to do is find out what the community wants and needs and hit the balance between environmental, cost, efficiency, equity, availability and convenience issues . Vickers states that one of the things wrong with the cost issues is the cost of savings are inrect cost s that aren' t recognized by the citizen . The cost of individual travel is not recognized by most people . Wilson notes that there are people who come two to three times a week to convenience centers . Pollock states that on the decision to expand rural curbside currently we are serving about 2/ 3rd of the county with the rural curbside recycling program . Typically those are the denser areas and the routes have grown outwards from the towns . Some have grown by infill, by citizen demand, and rerouting . We are now at the cusp of a three- part decision . In essence we 've grown by a route or two every year . We could begin to provide the Bradshaw Quarry southwestern quadrant with service by December if that was something demanded partly as compensation for closing the convenience center . We could also hold off and do the rest of the county year after next with serious routing and a capitalization program with the additional trucks needed . A third decision would be to continue to incrementally add homes, which is not very efficient for us . We are beginning to bump up against our capacity to add to existing routes . It makes more sense to leapfrog to the next level . We are asking for feedback to bring forward . 12