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Quick Report FROM: Name of Advisory Board: Solid Waste Advisory Board SUBJECT: Monthly Meeting DATE: May 23, 2013 LOCATION: Sold Waste Administration Building 1207 Eubanks Road Chapel Hill ______________________________________________________________________ MEMBERS PRESENT: Jan Sassaman, Chair & Chapel Hill Rep., Remus Smith, Hillsborough Liaison, BJ Tipton UNC liaison MEMBERS ABSENT: Jim Ward, Chapel Hill Rep. and Town Council Member, . STAFF PRESENT: Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, Wanda McCain, and Wendy Simmons, Chapel Hill Sanitation Services Director VACANCIES: Carrboro (2), Hillsborough (1) and Orange County (2) _____________________________________________________________________ Beginning time of meeting: 7pm March 23, 2013 Old Business: None New Business: Wilson honors members of solid waste advisory board with a brief encomium. Approved April 23rd 2013 minutes 3-0. Wilson discussed County Recycling Alternative Financing: There will be no 3-R Fee billed for urban curbside, rural curbside or multifamily. Those programs will be funded from Enterprise fund reserves. The basic programs including drop-off, electronics, hazardous waste, education and some commercial collection programs will continue to be funded by the basic fee that is proposed to increase $10 per unit from $37 to $47. A doubling of the solid waste convenience center fees from $20 to $40 for rural, $10 to $20 for urban and $2 to $4 for multifamily is proposed to finance convenience center operations and improvements. No capital equipment is recommended for solid waste for next fiscal year. A draft resolution from the April 23rd BOCC meeting outlining the intent of the future directions for solid waste and recycling was presented. The minutes have not been approved by the BOCC yet. Wilson further discussed FY 13/14 budget issues and explained that all recycling-related function at landfill will be funded from recycling. Only C&D disposal will be funded from tipping fees. The fund will lose about $2.5 million and only a little over $1 million will saved from positions eliminated, operational decreases and surplus equipment sales. There is $3.2 million for closing and capping the current MSW landfill. Hours will be adjusted at landfill as follows: Weekdays 7am to 3pm. (was 4pm); Saturday 8am to noon (was 7:30am). Eubanks and Walnut Grove are proposed to be opened Thursdays beginning in September. The planning and design of Eubanks Road Convenience Center improvements are underway and construction is hoped for some time in FY 14-15. But there are concerns about the Town of Chapel Hill development process.