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Quick Report <br /> <br />FROM: Name of Advisory Board: Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Monthly Meeting <br /> <br />DATE: March 14, 2012 <br /> <br />LOCATION: Sold Waste Administration Building 1207 Eubanks Road Chapel Hill <br />______________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: Jan Sassaman, Chair & Chapel Hill Rep., Remus Smith Hillsborough <br />Rep. Jim Ward, Chapel Hill Rep, Steve Yuhasz County Board Liaison, BJ Tipton UNC ex-officio <br /> <br />MEMBERS ABSENT: Al Vickers Carrboro Rep <br />. <br />STAFF PRESENT: Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, Mary Carlson, Cody Marshall, Paul Spire, <br />Wendy Simmons (Chapel Hill Solid Waste Services Superintendent) <br /> <br />VACANCIES: Carrboro (1), Hillsborough (1) and Orange County (2) <br />_____________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Beginning time of meeting: 7pm <br /> <br />Old Business (if any) NONE <br /> <br />New Business <br /> <br />Topic A Approval of February 2012 minutes: Approved 3-0. <br /> <br /> Topic B: Follow-up from February 21 meeting of Board of Orange County Commissioners <br /> on Landfill Closure, Single-Stream, New Interlocal Agreement and Rogers Road <br /> Community Improvements <br /> <br />Gayle Wilson described the discussion held by the Board of County <br />Commissioners and their decisions on these topics as well as transferring waste <br />to Durham City Transfer Station. <br /> <br />• Landfill Closure: The BOCC has stated that the MSW landfill will close <br />June 30, 2013 and subsequently they will use the Durham Transfer <br />Station for at least the County-collected MSW. Commissioner Yuhasz <br />noted that trucking waste to the Durham Transfer Station has always <br />been considered an interim step until a better solution is created. There <br />was further discussion of if the County’s regulated recyclables materials <br />ordinance could or would be enforced at the Durham Transfer Station and <br />how the various Towns might inform those violating the ordinance <br />provisions keeping the banned materials from their disposal receptacles. <br /> <br />• Single Stream recycling conversion to bins will take place in early <br />2012-13 but carts will not be used. A delay of previously planned roll- <br />carts being used for the Urban Curbside Program was a result of the