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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 7, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5-1 <br />SUBJECT: Bid Award: Landfill Compactor for Orange County Landfill <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing/Solid Waste <br />Management <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />None <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, 245-2652 <br />Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider awarding a bid for a Landfill Compactor for the Orange County Regional Landfill <br />to Road Machinery Inc of Statesville, North Carolina. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County currently owns two landfill compactors, which are highly specialized <br />pieces of equipment that operate on the face of a landfill and compress waste to the maximum extent <br />possible. Compacting the waste saves valuable airspace in the landfill and effectively increases both the <br />capacity and life of the landfill, <br />The compactor that is the subject of the proposed bid award will be used at the construction and <br />demolition (C&D) landfill on the north side of Eubanks Road, C&D landfill compactors are replaced every <br />six years per the County's landfill equipment replacement schedule. The unit due for replacement during <br />the 2005-2006 fiscal year is a 2000 REX 3-70C, The County's new C&D landfill is expected to open for <br />operation in 2006, and with an estimated life of at least 15 years, it is likely that future work at the new <br />C&D landfill will necessitate replacement of this new compactor in another six years or so, The County's <br />ten-year solid waste management plan, 2005-15 recommended Capital Investment Plan, and solid waste <br />equipment replacement schedule for FY 2005-06 all incorporated plans to make this equipment <br />acquisition. The adopted 2005-06 Solid Waste Management departmental budget includes funding for <br />first year installment financing of this purchase. <br />The County stations its other compactor for daily operations on the mixed solid waste (MSW) landfill on <br />the south side of Eubanks Road, That compactor was replaced several years ago, and in light of the <br />anticipated closing of the MSW landfill when it reaches capacity (expected in 2010), there are no plans to <br />purchase any future replacements for that piece of equipment. The County's Solid Waste Management <br />plan contemplates the establishment and operation of a transfer station after the MSW landfill closes, but <br />because of its nature there is no use for this kind of compactor in a transfer station operation. <br />Under certain circumstances, North Carolina General Statute 143-129 allows local governments to make