HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES-2010-092 Resolution Adopting the Three-Year-Solid Waste Management Plan Update to be Submitted to the State of North CarolinaResolution # 2010-092-adopted 12/6/2010
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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE THREE-YEAR SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
WHEREAS North Carolina statutorily requires each County and Municipality to update
its ten year solid waste plan every three years; and
WHEREAS Orange County and its municipalities have historically cooperated closely on
solid waste management including plan development; and
WHEREAS the plan to be adopted reaffirms the goal of 61 % waste reduction per capita
originally established in 1997 and reaffirmed in 2000, 2003 and 2008 (for 2006
submittal); and
WHEREAS the Board of Orange County Commissioners has created a representative
solid waste management plan work group that has worked for five years on the
comprehensive, integrated long term plan; and
WHEREAS Plan development has included representatives from all three Towns and the
Towns' interests have thereby been represented in Plan development; and
WHEREAS, the Towns and the public have reviewed and considered the Plan and
offered recommendations and revisions to be incorporated into the Plan document to be
submitted to the State for review; and
WHEREAS, this Plan submittal is a living document and recognizes that the County's
overall integrated solid waste management Plan will continue to evolve; and
WHEREAS the current submittal is about 15 months overdue from the original Plan
update due date of June 30, 2009;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Orange County Board of Commissioners
adopts this Three Year Solid Waste Management Plan update on behalf of the
municipalities of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and itself.
This is the 6th day of December, 2010.
Bernadette Pelissier, Chair