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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> November 5, 2009 <br /> Approved December 3, 2009 <br /> Sassaman states that those representing the municipalities basically didn' t have too <br /> strong of an opinion of how things functioned in the county . The consensus of all was <br /> that it made sense if there was going to be franchising to have a voluntary franchise <br /> and that it has certain advantages from the standpoint of efficiency of collection and <br /> flow control . The consensus was that convenience centers are critical to the recycling <br /> effort and should continue to serve a function in as much as they can . They are <br /> important and a vital part of what we do from a recycling standpoint. There was a <br /> concern about cost. A couple of the people that were there expressed that the people <br /> in the incorporated areas find them just as vital as the people in the unincorporated <br /> areas . <br /> Vickers states that on the funding issue, they recognized the need for funding but no <br /> ided . Regarding PAYT Carrboro and Hillsborough stated that this <br /> details were prov <br /> was something Chapel Hill was championing and they are not interested because they <br /> see too many issues with it. <br /> Sassaman states that since Chapel Hill ' s elected officials, past and present, weren' t <br /> there, we don t have too much of an idea where we are at the present moment. Hary <br /> mentioned that there is still an interest, but it' s hard to tell what is going on. The one <br /> issue about the MSW collection is that the issue of PAYT, however defined, has be to <br /> coordinated between all four jurisdictions because there is potential for collateral <br /> effects . <br /> Vickers said there has to be a system of users paying for the convenience centers <br /> somehow . <br /> Pollock states that the other funding method that was discussed in specific, in <br /> addition to the general fund and the 3 -R Fee, was the notion of an annual fee per <br /> household for access to the centers . As a preliminary recommendation staff made a <br /> twoAiered proposal that the households in the unincorporated areas pay in the range <br /> of $22/ year to support all the activities at the centers except for garbage collection and <br /> the urban households paid $8 . Once PAYT was out of the equation we had to find a <br /> way to come up with the million dollars that was related specifically to household <br /> garbage . There was no second iteration of fees per household [that would have <br /> calculated fees to cover this] . <br /> A lot of other counties in NC have adopted a per household fee as part of their <br /> approach to how to deal with convenience centers . Durham and Chatham counties <br /> have one that fund the vast majority of their convenience center operations . In their <br /> case it is mandatory for the unincorporated area and those that live in town can buy a <br /> permit to use the convenience centers . So [there is] a variety of models that result in a <br /> predictable stable source of funding that didn' t get thrown on at least by default. <br /> 3 <br />