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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board December 3, 2009 Approved January 11, 2010 compliments about the convenience center service and the people and how they work with the residents . They like the convenience centers for recycling . This was something that our statisticians did . They took a look at the data to see if people were just complaining about fees . What they found was when they looked at the characteristics of the respondents whether it was short driveways, paved roads, type of road - State or county, and whether or not their driveway was. paved it seemed to influence their response . [The next part refers to the statistical significance of the responses : ] The results mean that there is some internal coherence in the responses . It wasn' t just a bunch of rural residence complaining about fees . Then we asked them a bunch of questions about funding . One of the work group issues is funding. How do we keep a sustainable source of funding for the convenience centers ? Almost 95 % agreed that the convenience centers provided a valuable service . Most of them believed -76 % - that everyone should fund them, 10 % believed that only the rural households should fund them and 10 % believed that only the users of the convenience centers should fund them . I have to qualify this because remember only rural residence answered the survey so I don' t know that they can speak for in-town residents . You would have to do another survey for in-town residents . People are not so fond of PAYT . Eighty-two percent said they don' t want to pay it. Eighty-three percent said they wouldn ' t pay it and they said it again when we asked how much would they be willing to pay and we gave them different ranges in terms of how much . One of the things that we asked them was how would PAYT impact recycling . Only 14 % thought it would improve recycling . Most thought it would increase illegal dumping, burning, and illegal use of commercial dumpsters like when rural folks take their garbage to work and throw it out. We also asked about other fees, just to see, general opposition to gate fees . We offered low numbers and 89 % refused to pay a gate fee, 63 % refused an annual fee and 24 % would pay an annual fee of $50 . They don' t like any of the fees but they dislike access fees the least. In the comments there were some reccurring themes . These are comments that either came from emails or just people talking to us . One was " Aren' t we already paying for these in our taxes ? " They are very complementary about the convenience centers . People asked about the schedules . With the schedule cuts, we didn' t hear a lot of complaints about the schedule cuts but people wondered why the schedule cuts have to all be the same and all the convenience centers had to be on the same schedule . People also commented about convenience centers being a place where people go to ity centers for the rural residents . meet. They are commun To close the conclusions we draw from the survey we think the convenience centers are an essential part of the county ' s service to the rural residents for garbage and 5