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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> September 3, 2009 <br /> Approved November 5, 2009 <br /> Yuhasz states that there is also a $37 fee that everyone pays whether they get curbside <br /> service or not. How does the $38 / year compare to the cost of actually servicing the <br /> additional households ? <br /> Taylor states that the new homes are not budgeted in this year . The capacity to serve <br /> them exists with i in n the routing . The layout of money the recycling division for <br /> adding those homes would be fuel cost. We have enough bins now . Next year those <br /> houses that got the service would get the rural curbside fee and that would fully fund <br /> the continuation of that service into the future . <br /> Yuhasz asks if the $38 / year would be enough to fund the service, why not extend it <br /> throughout the county . It could start in January 2010 and charge everyone the fee <br /> next year . <br /> Wilson states that it could be done January 2011 . There needs to be a budget cycle to <br /> budget the additional several thousand bins and acquire the truck and driver . <br /> Pollock states that the key answer in terms of cash flow is the 3R fee has been <br /> developed to where it is self-sustaining . From a policy perspective, it hasn' t been <br /> done because the marching orders in terms of the solid waste plan haven' t driven us <br /> in that direction . In addition further out, [the] houses are further between with more <br /> narrow [private] roads; we come to address a much higher proportion of service <br /> equity issues . The challenges are disproportionate to the number of houses <br /> remaining to add . <br /> Wilson states that we are willing to do it if the Commissioners want to and provide <br /> the resources . We have no reason not to take it from county line to county line . <br /> Yuhasz states that that was the sense of my question . If we are concerned about <br /> equity county-wide then it ought to be county-wide . The question really is the <br /> additional $38 / household / year sufficient to pay for a program that would be county- <br /> wide, if not what would that cost be . <br /> Taylor states that looking at the rural curbside program covering 95 % of the county <br /> the fee does get more expensive because effectively the further the units the more <br /> expensive it is to serve . It would be more like $44 per unit. <br /> Sassaman states that if you have what you need at this point we should move on . <br /> 4 . Programs Services/Update <br /> Transfer Station Site Search Wilson states that at the commissioners meeting on <br /> Tuesday night the county manager presented four options on how to possibly <br /> 14 <br />