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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board November 5 , 2009 Approved December 3, 2009 Smith asks how many people work at the Hwy 86 North center . Pollock replies it is usually two per day as it' s a big site and our most used site . Sassaman asks if the public would like to speak . Hauser states that I appreciate the candor of the discussion. There are a couple of things that weren' t mentioned . On the franchising, a couple of issues came up . One was Hary Howard had made the point about market. There are many small vendors out in the rural community that serve people and with a franchise it would put them out of business . We are going to put together a list for people . I just heard about one who charges $20 and they have pickup trucks and they will do back- door service and will go down the mile-long private roads and down driveways . What I ' d like to hear more of from you all is to say that if we add curbside garbage, we are asking people to add $250 a year to their budgets plus a franchising fee . That is something that people are not prepared to do . I realize people in town do it. It is a different world, it' s a rural community . On curbside recycling I think that this board has, the department reports that curbside recycling has a roughly 50 % utilization rate of usage . As you all know we have a survey, I' m not prepared to talk about the results but one of the things that I will comment on is that' s interesting is how many people that have curbside recycling also use the convenience centers . Whether or not they use it but they use it in addition to the convenience centers . One of the things that were surprising about the work group to us is how come it is not looking at simple things that don' t cost millions of dollars like scheduling changes or the state of the recycling market. If the recycling market is not taking certain kinds of plastics then changing the distribution system isn t going to help . Is there anything that this board can do ? I am under the impression that in other markets maybe they have more density they are taking more plastics, they are taking more materials, are in this market to make more things recyclable . there things we can do We got about 900 responses [to the OCV-issued survey] . These are households all over the county that have responded to our survey . Eighty-five percent of the people say they recycle regularly . Nearly 50 % compost kitchen waste and nearly 60 % compost yard waste . These are all good things . I don t know if we need to improve the recycling rates . There are some ideas that we have, but what can we do about the market. What can we do with education to get recycling rates up ? I keep hearing things we are going to do to build a [recycling] facility or change the distribution system, but I' m not hearing what we can do to drive demand . 7