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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 8, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. .rj - Z <br />SUBJECT: Approval of Orange County's Three-Year Solid Waste Plan Update <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Solid Waste PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Proposed BOCC Resolution <br />5/10/04 Chapel Hill Town Council <br />Resolution <br />Draft Solid Waste Management Plan 3- <br />Year Update (previously distributed <br />under separate cover) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />.lohn Link or Rod Visser, 245-2300 <br />Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Management <br />Director, 968-2885 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />Chapel Hill <br />Durham <br />Mebane <br />732-8181 <br />968-4501 <br />688-7331 <br />336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider adopting a resolution that provides formal approval of the three-year <br />update of Orange County's Solid Waste Management Plan for submission to the State of North <br />Carolina. <br />BACKGROUND: At the February 17, 2004 regular meeting, the Board of Commissioners <br />conducted a public hearing on the County's proposed three-year tapdate of the Solid Waste <br />Management Plan required by North Carolina state law. Following the public hearing, the Board <br />voted to provide conceptual approval to the plan update, pending review and action of the <br />proposed update by the governing boards of the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and <br />Hillsborough, Since the Solid Waste Management Department was transferred from the Town <br />of Chapel Hill to Orange County in April 2000, the County has been the lead agency relative to <br />plan development and submission, However, the Towns also maintain a formal role in the plan <br />approval process, The Towns of Carrboro and Hillsborough have since approved the three- <br />year plan update as seen and approved by the BOCC. <br />The Chapel Hill Town Council discussed this topic at their meetings on April 14 and May 10, <br />2004. The Council indicated that it had several concerns about the solid waste plan update as <br />noted in their May 10 resolution. The Council appointed representatives to engage in <br />discussion with the Board of Commissioners about these concerns, which was set to take place <br />on June 7, 2004, <br />In 1997, the County and the three Towns adapted a solid waste management plan which <br />included along-term waste reduction goal of 61 % per capita and a comprehensive plan for <br />achieving that goal, Plan development was based on a previous multiyear process that <br />