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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 9, 2005 Action Agendla Item No. of SUBJECT: Solid Waste Matters DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Solid Waste PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 11/07f05 Solid Waste Director Memo Rod Visser, 245-2308 09/22/05 Olver, Inc, Analysis Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 PURPOSE: To review and discuss matters related to out-of-county solid waste disposal options, alternatives to the existing Highway 57 solid waste convenience center (SWCC), and the ongoing process to update the County's ten-year solid waste management plan. BACKGROUND: Staff are working on a number of solid waste policy matters and would benefit from the Board of Commissioners' feedback on many of these. At the November 2 meeting, the Board discussed the County s Solid Waste Facilities Master Plan and considerations related to landclearing and inert debris recycling operations, At this November 9 work session, staff recommend that the Board discuss and provide feedback related to three additional topics as outlined below: Alamance County Proposal to Accept Orange County Solid Waste for Disposal Staff will provide a brief review of two attached documents that outline analysis by staff and the County's consulting engineers of considerations related to out-of-county disposal of mixed solid waste (MSW ), Staff asked Olver, Inc (who operate under an annual contract approved by the BOCC for supplemental engineering services) to provide an additional perspective to the staff's review of an August 2005 inquiry by Alamance County representatives about Orange County's interest in the near term about shipping some or all of its MSW waste stream to Alamance for disposal, The staff and consulting engineers' conclusions are that there could be some longer term benefits in a future relationship with Alamance County, particularly if Alamance is open to an arrangement under which Orange County might gain some degree of ownership/equity interest in the Alamance County landfill. Staff recommend that talks with Alamance officials to this end be pursued. Without such an equity interest for Orange County, shipping waste to Alamance in the near term has serious practical constraints and is not financially advantageous to the County. Even so, there may be other reasons beyond the purely economic that warrant holding continued conversations with Alamance representatives regarding potential collaboration on solid waste management matters.