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<br /> <br />FROM: Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> <br />SUBJECT: November Monthly Meeting <br /> <br />DATE: November 9, 2010 <br /> <br />LOCATION: Solid Waste Administration Building 1207 Eubanks Road Chapel Hill <br /> <br />____________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: Jan Sassaman (chair) Remus Smith (Hillsborough rep) BJ Tipton (UNC <br />ex-officio member), Al Vickers (Carrboro), Jim Ward (Chapel Hill), Steve Yuhasz (BOCC <br />liaison), <br /> <br />MEMBERS ABSENT: Linda Bowerman (Carrboro rep), Orange County has not appointed reps <br />to fill its two vacancies yet <br /> <br />STAFF PRESENT: Gayle Wilson, SW Director, Blair Pollock SW Planner, Paul Spire SW <br />Manager, Wanda McCain Admin Asst., Cody Marshall Recycling Manager <br />____________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Beginning time of meeting: 7pm <br /> <br />Old Business (if any) - Minutes from October approved <br />… <br />New Business <br /> <br />Topic A: Development of Annual Work Plan <br /> Discussion point <br />• Chair presents draft of work plan and discussion follows, Chair will revise draft and re- <br />send to members for final review and then presentation to BOCC <br /> <br />Action Item: Chair slated to revise annual work plan and send to the SWAB next week 11/15-19 <br /> for review and then to submit to the BOCC <br /> … <br />Topic B: Develop Timeline and Framework for Evaluation of Alternative Methods to Landfill <br /> Disposal <br /> Discussion points <br />• SWAB may not have the technical capacity to perform this work itself and will definitely <br />need help evaluating the many new emerging technologies. <br />• It is not obvious that this work should precede development of a new Interlocal Solid <br />Waste Agreement (IA) among the local governments. SWAB went on to discuss IA <br />instead of detailing the development of a timeline & framework for alternatives. <br />• Some discussion of alternatives highlighted in a specific report made by GBB to County <br />in 2008 about state of alternative technologies. Report showed only incineration was <br />mature enough to be practical and economically viable and only at a larger scale than <br />Orange County’s waste. <br />• SWAB has developed a list of items that it will recommend be part of a revised IA and <br />that will be refined and submitted to BOCC as soon as possible