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Minutes Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board November 5, 2009 Approved December 3, 2009 of non-public road that makes it harder to service . There was also the point made " if it' s not broke why fix it" . A good part of the county feels that way . Pollock states that Al ' s characterization of franchising is reasonable in terms of there is no clear best way forward as to whether the county should be engaged in that or should provide universal waste collection . Vickers states that one thing that did come out of that was if there was to be a franchise it would have to be a voluntary franchise . That was one clear direction . Pollock states that there seemed to be consensus of the notion to go forward on the expansion of the curbside [recycling] plan and the corollary piece of changing to single-stream over time and making sure there was adequate space for transferring recyclables . The staff work for the next agenda will be to shape that recommendation a little more so that it can go for final review . That was clearest. On the convenience centers there wasn' t a lot of support for the notion of pay for individual bags of garbage at the convenience centers to finance that. There was a recognition that given the budget situation the funding will be inadequate, so things may be cut and then put back in another year . Thus there needs to be a more stable and predictable source of funding to have functioning convenience centers over the long haul without cutting things every year to make it through the budget. Funding demands a fair amount of consideration. The other piece about the convenience centers was related to design issues and how the centers function now compared to how they might be designed for efficiency . The bigger picture issues which are, are they appropriately located or spaced apart in terms of people ' s ability to equally access them and are they designed for safety and efficiency . If we think there are improvements how should we pay for them . If it' s incremental how should we go forward, using compactors rather than dumpsters, use an incremental approach to improvements ? Some of the potential ways forward varied a lot. There is a status quo option but there is an upward pressure to recycle more stuff, but there is no more room with 20 plus dumpsters at every site . We are space constrained if we continue to use dumpsters, not compactors, but we are financially constrained to switch to compactors . The current system is part of a history of continuous improvement and is not the beginning of the line nor [at] the end of the line . Vickers states that there was some recognition that [with] the convenience centers there would have to be some way of funding in the future figured out. Pay by the bag was dismissed . 2