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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: August 9, 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 />Liaison, BJ Tipton UNC ex-officio <br /> <br />MEMBERS ABSENT: Jim Ward, Chapel Hill Rep., Steve Yuhasz BOCC Liaison <br />. <br />STAFF PRESENT: Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, Jennie Knowlton, Cody Marshall, Wendy <br />Simmons (Chapel Hill Solid Waste Services Superintendent) <br /> <br />VACANCIES: Carrboro (2), Hillsborough (1) and Orange County (2) <br />_____________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Beginning time of meeting: 7pm August 8, 2012 <br /> <br />Old Business: revise June Quick Report and meeting notes to reflect BJ Tipton as present and <br />put date of June 13 meeting on Quick Report. <br /> <br />New Business: <br /> <br />Approved March 2012 minutes 2-0. <br /> <br />Programs and Services Update: <br /> <br />Walnut Grove Road SWCC Construction was successfully bid and a proposed winning low bid <br />was received and will be recommended to BOCC at their August 21 meeting. If approved <br />construction would begin in September and site activities limited to household waste disposal. A <br />remote temporary recycling site will be established at Cedar Grove Park. <br /> <br />Single Stream Recycling Implementation has overall gone well. It seems urban curbside <br />collection has increased by weight compared to July 2011. The shift has have also been <br />implemented in all other programs – rural curbside, multifamily, commercial and dropoff. We <br />have received feedback on the difficulty of using the rolloffs to dump large amounts of paper and <br />are attempting to have at least one slant-top rolloff at each dropoff site to remediate that <br />difficulty. <br /> <br />The Landfill Neighborhood Cleanup Project is proceeding with about 22 participating properties. <br />Visible materials including trash, brush, tree limbs and other materials including properly <br />contained but potentially hazardous materials are being removed from the property at no cost to <br />the property owners or occupants. The contractor expects to be finished next week.