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<br />Quick Report (draft) <br />FROM: Name of Advisory Board: Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Monthly Meeting <br /> <br />DATE: March 9, 2011 <br /> <br />LOCATION: Sold Waste Administration Building 1207 Eubanks Road Chapel Hill <br />____________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: Jan Sassaman, Chair & Chapel Hill Rep., Stan Cheren, County Rep., <br />Remus Smith, Hillsborough Rep., Linda Bowerman, Carrboro Rep. Jim Ward Chapel Hill Rep. <br />BJ Tipton UNC ex-officio Rep. <br /> <br />MEMBERS ABSENT: Al Vickers, Carrboro Rep. <br /> <br />STAFF PRESENT: Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, Wanda McCain, Cody Marshall, Paul Spire, <br />Jane Cousins (Chapel Hill Public Works staff) <br /> <br />____________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Beginning time of meeting: 7pm <br /> <br />Old Business (if any) NONE <br /> <br />New Business <br />Topic A Approval of February minutes <br /> Discussion <br /> Decision/Vote(s) 5-0 <br /> Action Item Remus Smith moved, Stan Cheren seconded motion to approve minutes <br /> <br />Topic B: Presentation by Gayle Wilson on Solid Waste Convenience Center Improvements <br />Recommendations. <br />This presentation was a reprise of the presentation to the BOCC on February 22 and staff took <br />questions from SWAB. Questions included if future schedules for the SWCCs might include <br />having one open every day instead of all closed on Wed., Could collection of used vegetable oil <br />be added at centers and the schedule for improvement implementation. Could volunteers be <br />used at SWCCs to assist citizens. In response: The plan is to recommend closed Wednesdays <br />for maintenance, training, etc. Vegetable oil collection will be added as proposed district centers <br />are improved. A presentation to SWAB on use of volunteers by Solid Waste Department will be <br />scheduled. <br /> <br />Topic C: Preliminary Budget Discussion by Gayle Wilson. Budget had not yet been presented to <br />manager, so discussion was very preliminary. Questions about single stream recycling <br />conversion recommended for most programs in FY 2012-13 with planning and contracting for <br />urban curbside slated for 2011-12. Discussion emphasized the need for effective education and <br />conversion to use of carts for urban single stream while retaining bins initially for rural single <br />stream. There was discussion of the new proposed tiered fee to partly fund the SWCCs. The <br />question of how to communicate these program and fee changes to the Town boards was <br />raised and that will follow presentation of FY 2011-12 budget to the County Board.