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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> September 3, 2009 <br /> Approved November 5, 2009 <br /> northeast quadrant, High Rock is for the northwest quadrant, and Ferguson is for the <br /> southwest quadrant. When you go into the northeast and southwest they are kind of <br /> skewed relative to where they might be if they were going to be equi- distance to <br /> where everyone is [lives] . Geographic equity would cause consideration of moving <br /> Walnut Grove to a new site maybe at a [planned County] park at Hwy57/ Mincey <br /> Rd / Schely area [on County-owned property] . In particular, where the transfer station <br /> would be located out on Hwy 54 west, close the Ferguson site and open a modernized <br /> convenience center at the transfer station. <br /> The other part of the convenience center set of decision-making relates most <br /> specifically to how to operate them, because to continue to solely operate them using <br /> general fund money, with a little of enterprise money because of the recycling, has <br /> reached its constraints . What we are asking you to consider in essence is -- should we <br /> charge for any or all items brought to the convenience centers ? <br /> The final item is how to proceed to expanding rural curbside recycling programs . A <br /> set of options could be to continue as we have done, to move forward during this <br /> fiscal year to provide services in the southwest quadrant of the county to create some <br /> compensatory service for people that are losing the Bradshaw Quarry site, thirdly to <br /> gather our sources and doing a full implementation the balance of the 1 / 3rd [of rural <br /> residents] that don' t have rural curbside in probably a two year time frame . <br /> The way the memo is laid out was to address the franchise issue first. There was quite <br /> a bit of work around this with Olver, our consultants . There were three reports, only <br /> ided - one related to the implementing of rural residential <br /> two which were prov <br /> franchising and the other analyzing the rural commercial franchise . <br /> I am not sure if it is fruitful for me to go on at this point or whether we should stop <br /> and ask if you want to consider the franchise item first. <br /> Wilson states that it may be easier to do them one at a time . <br /> Pollock states that starting with franchising the key decision is franchise or no <br /> franchise and all the decisions stem from that. Should it be mandatory or not? How <br /> many districts should we have ? There are also other subsidiary decisions . Is the <br /> franchise PAYT ? Should we get different size carts [for PAYT] ? How do we deal <br /> with the elimination of small haulers? The Olver report goes through a rigorous <br /> economic and environmental analysis and with a voluntary franchise, the economics <br /> to the homeowner are borderline [they are not much better with a franchise than the <br /> current open competition] . The average fee from the current private haulers equals <br /> that of our projected franchise cost per household in a franchisee provided roll cart. <br /> 2 <br />