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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board December 3 , 2009 Approved January 11, 2010 The way the work group has been addressing this with input from the solid waste advisory board has been a series of iterations on different elements of the plan. The element under recent discussion is the unincorporated areas bundle of issues related to waste collection, curbside recycling, and the convenience centers . The work group has been very deliberate, comprehensive, and very detailed iO n its approach to this . It has taken an extraordinary amount of time to get to a series of recommendations which will ultimately go to the County Commission. Another big item on the table that hasn t been finally addressed yet although there has been a lot of study is " whither the commercial recycling into a lesser extent commercial waste collection? " There are other elements of the plan, regulatory and other measures, to increase waste reduction the same way corrugated cardboard, scrap metal, and wood were banned are there more bans that would be effective ways to move towards waste reduction . Is there any kind of regulatory approaches that are appropriate here ? PAYT is a general kind of approach that has been discussed and it is not clear where we go with that. As another major element, there is an overall financial plan . At this point the landfill is still something of a profit center for the enterprise fund . A transfer station -- not so much, but we still need that and a way to pay for it. Recycling has its 3 -R fee . How do we want to look at the financial situation and recommend how to proceed on that? Doing each of those things in a kind of iterative deliberate process as it has been done can take an extraordinary amount of time . My opinion in watching the process and being part of it is that we just don' t have the kind of energy and fortitude to go about it quite as deliberately and get done in a timely manner that is going to give us momentum and satisfy the real objective which is to get the plan moving, achieve our goals and move forward . There are a couple of approaches for the board to discuss . One is prove me wrong and to say this deliberate process is really appropriate . It works . It is important to discuss all these things in detail and continue at this level . For example the meeting on the [December] 15th will complete the work on the unincorporated area and be able to make a firm recommendation. Then it would move on to commercial recycling . Take all the reports that have been done , technical analyses, and series of options debate and discuss those and come forward with a recommendation on that and so draft forth. At the conclusion of those set of iterations, direct the staff to produce a plan that includes the recommendations on all of these . Then take the draft plan and shop it to the municipalities as we' ve always done and to the public which there is some keen interest in solid waste and it is required to have a least one public hearing and we' d have more than one . Another potential approach is to proceed in a different manner . We are on the path of this work on the unincorporated area in terms of there is fairly firm recommendation 13