HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 06-17-2014-11eORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: June 17, 2014
SUBJECT: Solid Waste Advisory Group — BOCC Appointments
DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners
ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover
Action Agenda
Item No. 11 -e
PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Clerk's Office, 245 -2130
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PURPOSE: To consider making 2 BOCC appointments to the Solid Waste Advisory Group
(SWAG) and to appoint the Chair.
BACKGROUND: The Orange County Board of Commissioners approved at their June 3rd
meeting the creation of the Solid Waste Advisory Group (SWAG):
The Board decided to:
1) to create a multijurisdictional task force of at least one year's duration to articulate,
investigate, and propose collaborative solutions for solid waste issues confronting Orange
County; the towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough; and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill;
2) plan to make BOCC appointments to the task force at the Board's June 17, 2014 regular
meeting; and
3) solicit other representatives from the other jurisdictions, the University and the public (5 at
large positions) as soon as possible
4) This task force will prioritize the proposed issues listed in this agenda item (listed below for
information purposes): for its consideration for analysis.
5) A County Commissioner will serve as Chair of this work group.
The charge to the group at the outset is to define the nature, scope, and timing of the
solid waste issues to be considered, including but not limited to-
* an interlocal agreement on solid waste;
• reducing solid waste that is not recycled;
• recycling opportunities and services;
• siting a transfer station or landfill within the county;
• supporting public education on solid waste issues;
• construction and demolition waste;
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* assuring long -term partnership of the entities involved through an interlocal agreement
on waste handling and disposal;
* addressing equitable funding and mechanisms for establishing fees and making future
joint decisions;
• future use of closed landfill sites;
• investigation of partnership possibilities involving neighboring jurisdictions;
• feasibility of innovative and cost - effective, environmentally -sound methods of disposal
of solid waste beyond burial;
• potential inclusion of biosolids in long -range disposal plans;
• emergency storm debris planning
• treatment of communities impacted by siting of any facilities either within Orange
County or beyond its borders to receive shipments of our waste.
The composition is as follows: (and the Clerk's office will be soliciting applications from
residents over the summer and these will be appointed by the BOCC at their first meeting in
September ( Sept. 4t") and the office has solicited appointees from the Towns.
SPECIAL REPRESENTATION
Orange County Commissioners 2
Town of Chapel Hill Councilmembers (2)
Town of Carrboro Aldermen (2)
Mayor Lydia Lavelle and Alderman
Randee Haven O'Donnell
Town of Hillsborough Commissioners (2)
Commissioners Brian Lowen and Kathleen
Ferguson
UNC Representatives 2
Residents- At -Large (5)
FINANCIAL IMPACT: None.
RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider making BOCC appointments to the Solid Waste Advisory
Group and to appoint a Chair.