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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board September 3, 2009 Approved November 5, 2009 proceed . The BOCC essentially said " proceed on all fronts . " Hwy 54 site will remain a candidate site at this time . There is no more dedicated work to do on the site - the environmental work is complete, . There is a conclusion on the wetlands that they are not prohibitive of constructing and operating a transfer station there . The other possible option of the Town [site] on Millhouse Rd . - the Town has not met since the county inquired as to whether they were going to formally offer it or not. The Board wishes to wait until the Town s last meeting of the calendar year around November 28th to get an answer from them . The issue of temporarily or permanently going to Durham is still on the table . They authorized the manager to write a formal letter to the City of Durham to get a formal response to whether Durham is willing to receive the waste short- or long-term . There was a new option laid on the table Tuesday for another piece of property on Millhouse Rd . across the street from the Town property . This is a ten-acre site that the county already owns that is directly adjacent to the northern part of the landfill property and it was purchased originally for incorporation with the Blackwood property for a park site . The BOCC did ask for additional evaluation of that property to verify if it has any environmental problems, whether it is suitable land or permitable for a possible transfer station . They also authorized the manager to proceed to get request for proposal from firms to obtain a firm to possibly design and permit a transfer station. They authorized the initiation of a RFP processes . They authorized staff to solicit letters of interest or intent of possible landfills that would take our waste . This would not be for a bid or formal quote but to show interest in bidding . I don' t know when this will all be pulled together . It will take a little while to get the additional environmental information for the ten-acre site, called the Paydarfar site, which is the [name of the] previous owner . We are moving forward on what we can . The Board set a deadline by when they hope to make a decision . That is the last meeting of this calendar year - December 7th. We generally need about 30 months to pull this off from the date the site is selected . There are interim contingency options should there not be enough time . If the decision is made on December 7th I think we can do it. If it is delayed beyond then it becomes a little questionable and cutting it a lot closer . Sassaman states that, being at the meeting, I was particularly chagrinned that the Durham transfer station option is still floating around . Almost exactly 3 years ago we sent a resolution to the BOCC opposing the [use of] the Durham transfer station . I see some options open to us to weigh in. Do you think if we said anything at this point the Commissioners would listen? Yuhasz states that I am convinced there are members of the public on every side that know the commissioners don t listen to anybody . It does seem that if the SWAB has a 15