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APPROVED 11/18/2008 <br /> MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> TRANSFER STATION SITING WORK SESSION <br /> October 21, 2008 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Transfer Station Siting Work <br /> Session on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in <br /> Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Valerie P. <br /> Foushee, Alice M. Gordon, and Mike Nelson <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Moses Carey, Jr. <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geof Gledhill <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon, Assistant County Manager <br /> Gwen Harvey and Willie Best, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will <br /> be identified appropriately below) <br /> NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br /> AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br /> 1. Call to Order/Introductions/Opening Comments <br /> Chair Jacobs said that this process has been going on for a long time and the County <br /> Commissioners are working through a deliberate process. There has been time set aside for <br /> comments from the public, however there are more people to comment than there is time <br /> tonight. He said that when the sites are narrowed down, there will be public comment on those <br /> sites. He said that the meetings tonight were not for public comment, but for the County <br /> Commissioners to discuss specific issues. There will be advertisements for the meetings that <br /> will have the full evening available for public comment. This is the beginning of a new phase of <br /> the process. <br /> Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey said that the purpose of this meeting is to <br /> resume the work sessions related to the selection of a solid waste transfer station in Orange <br /> County. The last meeting was on September 161h, and Olver, Inc. provided the results of the <br /> findings related to the technical criteria. At that time, the Board directed the consultants to go <br /> forward with the ten candidate sites that were presented for discussion at that meeting to <br /> community-specific criteria evaluation. The Board has previously approved exclusionary <br /> criteria, technical criteria, and community-specific is the third element as this moves forward. <br /> The purpose of the work session tonight is to present those findings from Olver, Inc. to the <br /> Board and to the public. <br /> She introduced representatives from Olver, Inc: Bob Sallach, Ron Singleton, Sandy <br /> Turner, and Lewis Watts. <br /> 2. Receive Report from Olver, Inc. on Application of Community-Specific Criteria to <br /> Ten (10) Candidate Sites Presented on September 16th <br /> Bob Sallach explained in depth the three types of criteria —exclusionary, technical, and <br /> community-specific. He made a PowerPoint presentation. <br /> Work Session Agenda <br /> •Opening Remarks <br /> 1 <br />