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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> December 3, 2009 <br /> Approved January 11, 2010 <br /> from the work group and backstopped by SWAB on notions about curbside recycling <br /> and I believe those will also be informed by the OCV work as the work group shapes <br /> its final recommendation to the BOCC . There is outstanding work yet on the notion <br /> about waste collection and the big piece of outstanding convenience centers . I don' t <br /> think there is any reason to stop that work . There is every reason to proceed to finish <br /> that public as a stand-alone set of <br /> that work, have a recommendation and either bring <br /> issues to discuss and get public feed back or bundle it. <br /> After that staff could take the reports, do our best work on the regulatory measures, <br /> take the financial analyses and create the draft plan and bring it back for SWAB <br /> discussion, work group discussion and once it has been a little more shaped, as a <br /> ough the municipalities and then to public <br /> whole for public discussion both thr <br /> hearing . <br /> Going the second route would take away some of the detailed discussion but would <br /> speed the process up and would enable a much more timely completion that is only <br /> one year late instead of two years late . That would not only be to get our ticket <br /> punched by the State but would end up with some substantive document that would <br /> have value and provide the county with direction. The first path is more deliberate <br /> and detailed and longer and the second path is possibly a little more streamlined and <br /> itially drop out but there is ample opportunity <br /> a few of the details may in for public <br /> review . <br /> Vickers states that the sooner we get a document the quicker the process will finish . <br /> The more we go over the same territory we have to re- educate more people because <br /> the committee' s makeup changes with time . After each election. Let' s have a <br /> document people can critique, the quickest way to get there is probably the most <br /> appropriate . <br /> Bowerman concurs . <br /> Smith concurs . Put it on paper, then let' s study it. <br /> Yuhsaz states that not having seen one of these plans before and therefore not <br /> knowing what it looks like, but it seems that if we are trying to make decisions about <br /> what direction to go in the unincorporated area of the county, we need to have a good <br /> handle on what they are going to be before creating a plan otherwise we might be <br /> going in one direction and it may not be the way the plan says . Those basic decisions <br /> have to be made and I am not sure that they have been made yet. That is what the <br /> work group is working on, but I don' t think there is a consensus on what we are <br /> going to do about expansion of curbside recycling or the possibility of extending <br /> vendor pickup through a franchise system . Those things really haven t been brought <br /> to a decision point and those are going to be critical parts, I think, of the plan. While I <br /> 14 <br />