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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board December 3 , 2009 Approved January 11, 2010 We asked them to choose one . We didn' t say tell us when you want to go the convenience center . We said what was the time that you preferred to go to convenience centers and as you ' d guess most of them said Saturday . This bothered us because we would have lobbied for Sunday but the Sunday category and the " I don' t care " category are just about the same . Then people wanted to go weekday mornings . Weekday evenings and afternoons were the lowest response . Then if you look by convenience center Saturday was the most convenient time . But when you look at the second most convenient time it varied by convenience center . Eubanks Road and Walnut Grove were weekday mornings and I don ' t know what conclusions you draw from that but we wondered that people are taking their garbage on their way to work in the mornings on weekdays . The other thing that this made us wonder about and actually the solid waste department has already cut the 6 o ' clock hour on weekday evenings but we wondered if the solid waste department wanted to cut cost should they be looking at weekday afternoon or evenings as a possible option to reduce cost rather than shutting down one of the convenience centers . 'That is another idea that we thought that this data suggested to us . This is pretty consistent with the county ' s report. In the spirit of what is convenient the other question of how far do people want to go to a convenience center, 91 % of our responses said they wanted to drive 15 minutes or less . If you ask people how far do they drive to get to a convenience center they don' t know so we asked them how many minutes do they drive one way to a convenience center and then we asked how many minutes are you willing to drive to a convenience center? Most people are 6.10 minutes . Not many people and I think there was a perception that a lot of people in the northern county driving really far to a convenience center that didn' t seem to play out in the survey results . When we asked them how far they were willing to drive they are not willing to drive much further . I don' t know if you have been listening on the solid waste work group . One of the real reasons they want to modernize it because there is a perception of a safety issue . We asked people had they ever had an accident. Most of them said ' no' . We didn' t time bind it but 13 people did report accidents - 4 flat tires, 3 minor cuts mostly from handling material such as wood, someone complained about the speed bump and some others . The actual comments are in the report itself. We asked if you ever had an accident. The other question we asked is what do you throw out. You can see that cardboard and recycling far and away trump any other disposable in terms of what people are throwing away . What this told us in . the spirit of ways to cut cost that it might be possible to take some of these low non essential services and maybe not do them in 3