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<br />~ ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 3, 2001 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~-~ ^. <br />SUBJECT: Bid Award: Two Fabric Covered Buildings for Solid Waste Operations <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing/ <br />- Solid Waste <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Bid Tabulation <br />Related Matter Previously Considered at <br />Regular Meeting of November 1, 200p <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, 245-2652 <br />Gayle Wilson, 96_8-2885 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel HIII 9fi8-0.501 <br />Durham 68$-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider awarding a bid for the acquisition and installation of two fabric covered <br />buildings to enhance the current open-air recycling pad operations at the Orange County landfill. <br />BACKGROUND: In FY 1999-00, the County's drop-off and commercial glass recycling programs <br />were brought in-house to save money and to eliminate unreliable service, missed collections, and <br />poor record keeping on the part ofi the contractors who to that point had been carrying out these <br />programs. These recycling materials are now being processed on and around an open-air concretE <br />slab constructed specifically to accommodate these programs. In the first year of in-house <br />operations, there was an increase of about 43 percent in the volume of materials recycled. <br />Funds were included in the approved FY 2000-01 Solid Waste/Landfill Operations Enterprise Fund <br />budget to construct a shelter for the recycling processing and to provide additional concrete pad <br />space. The shelter would minimize the difficult working conditions that Solid Waste Management <br />employees often face because of the operation's exposure to the wind, cold, sun, and rain. <br />Enclosing the processing area would limit the blowing of plastics and aluminum cans, as well as <br />some of the contaminants contained within the materials, such as paper. At the lower level of the <br />recycling pad, the processed materials are currently handled with a skid steer loader (bobcat). The <br />current pad area provides insufficient maneuvering area for this machine as it loads the processed <br />materials. <br />On November 1, 2000, the Board approved a modification to the existing Class A Special Use <br />Permit for the recycling operations area that permits: <br />• construction of two buildings (6,120 square feet) on the existing 7,500 square foot <br />recycling pad <br />• construction of an additional 1,250 square feet of concrete pad contiguous to the existing <br />pad <br />storage of an additional six roll-off containers on the site <br />