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i <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 27, 2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. $-� <br /> SUBJECT: Bid Award: Construction of Recycling Facilities at Landfill <br /> DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> Management/Purchasing <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Bid Tabulations Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 <br /> Summary of changes Pam Jones, 245-2652 <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 construction of recycling facilities at the Orange <br /> County Landfill. <br /> BACKGROUND: On December 11, 2001, the Board adopted the Regulated Recyclable <br /> Materials Ordinance (RRMO). That action represented the culmination of the vision of the <br /> BOCC-appointed Construction and Demolition (C&D) Recycling Task Force that met from late <br /> 1999 through mid-2000 and presented its report and recommendations to the BOCC in August <br /> 2000. The ordinance and its related personnel, equipment and facilities have been the subject <br /> of several discussions by the Board. <br /> The adoption of the RRMO necessitates the acquisition of equipment to manage and haul the <br /> materials to market, new personnel to operate the equipment, to inspect the incoming loads for <br /> compliance, for education and enforcement, and to issue permits and licenses. The ordinance <br /> also necessitates the construction of C&D recycling facilities at the landfill, which were included <br /> in the Facilities Master Plan adopted by the Board on October 1, 2001. On June 11, 2002, the <br /> Board authorized the creation of three new positions and authorized the purchase of five major <br /> pieces of equipment (a Road Tractor was not included and must be rebid due to the vendor <br /> withdrawing the bid). <br /> The necessary facilities include: <br /> • Construction of a covered cardboard/drywall receiving/loading station <br /> • Construction of a scrap metal/white goods receiving/loading station <br /> • Shifting the existing yard waste/mulching area to the north and incorporating a clean wood <br /> waste recycling area, and construction of a four bay mulch/compost storage bunker <br />