ATTACHMENT 2

 

April 10, 2002

 

Mr. Gayle Wilson

Orange County Solid Waste Management Director

P. O Box 17177

Chapel Hill, NC 27516-7177

 

Dear Gayle:

 

At the Town Council’s budget work session on April 3, the Council posed several questions about the possible impact on Orange County’s solid waste operations of a possible change to the Town’s program of collecting commercial waste.  I am writing to pose those questions to you and to ask for a response for the Council’s consideration.  The questions are as follows:

 

  1. What would be the impact on the County’s solid waste program if the revenue associated with commercial collections were no longer available?  We estimate the amount to be about $600,000.

 

  1. What would be the County’s position with respect to current services if the revenue were lost due to the Town no longer providing commercial collections?

 

  1. How much of current fee revenue is dedicated to recycling?

 

  1. If the Town were to eliminate commercial collections, would the County consider charging the Town a fee specifically for recycling services?  How much would such a fee be?

 

We are trying to complete a report to the Council for their April 24 work session.  I hope you can provide us with this information in time to include it in that report.  It would be most helpful to us to have it by Wednesday, April 17, if possible. 

 

Thank you for your help with this.  Please let me know if you need additional information.

 

Sincerely,

 

Bruce A. Heflin

Public Works Director

 

Cc:       Cal Horton

            Sonna Loewenthal

            Harv Howard

            Randy Ballard