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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1996-09-18 adj000±45 September 18, 1996 (Adjourned Meeting) (Page 1) An adjourned meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County, Virginia, was held on September 18, 1996, at 7:00 P,M., The Senior Center Building, 1180 Pepsi Place, Charlottesville, Virginia. This meeting was ad- journed from September 17, 1996. PRESENT: Mr. David P. Bowerman, Mrs. Charlotte Y. Humphris, Mr. Charles S. Martin, Mr. Walter F. Perkins and Mrs. Sally H. Thomas. ABSENT: Mr. Forrest R. Marshall, Jr. OFFICERS PRESENT: County Executive, .Mr. Robert W. Tucker, Jr., and County Attorney, Mr. Larry W. Davis. CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY COUNCIL PRESENT: Mr. Maurice Cox, Ms. Virginia Daugherty, Ms. Meredith Richards, Ms. Katherine E. Slaughter and Mr. David Toscano. RIVANNA SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESENT: Ms. Jo. M. Higgins, Mr. Gary O'Connell and Ms. Judith Mueller. THE SOLID WASTE TASK FORCE PRESENT: Mr. David Booth, Mr. Clarence McClymonds, Mr. Aaron Mills, Mr. Richard Morton, Ms. Nancy K. O'Brien, Ms. Laurel E. Royse and Ms. Vivian Thomson. OTHER STAFF PRESENT: Mr. Steve Chidsey, Mr. Preston Coiner and Mr. Arthur Petrini. Agenda Item No. 1. Call to Order. The meeting was called to order at 7:10 p.m., by Mrs. Humphris, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Ms. Slaughter, Mayor, City Council and Mr. O'Connell of the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority Board of Directors. Agenda Item No. 2. Joint Meeting with Charlottesville City Council, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority Board of Directors and the Solid Waste Task Force. After each person introduced himself, Ms. Nancy O'Brien, Executive Director of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District and Facilitator for the Solid Waste Task Force, explained that the purpose of this meeting was to present the report of the Task Force to the governing bodies. Item 2a. Work Session: Solid Waste Task Force Report. Ms. O'Brien said in the fall of 1995, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority, the City of Charlottesville and the County of Albemarle appointed a Solid Waste Task Force to study solid waste management in the area and develop a set of recommendations for future guidance. Ms. O'Brien then presented the report of the Task Force, and responded to questions from the Supervisors and Councilors regarding information contained in the report. Ms. O'Brien concluded her presentation by summarizing the following consensus recommendations reached by the Task Force. She noted that two members had additional items on which consensus was not reached. Following is the set of recommendations: Current directions in solid waste management are encourag- ing, but additional changes need to be made in how solid waste is managed in this community. The unlined cell should be capped and closed as soon as possible. If Charlottesville/Albemarle municipal solid waste is landfilled, it must go into a lined cell; new municipal solid waste cells used must be Sub-Title D lined. 000146 September 18, 1996 (Adjourned Meeting) (Page 2) 4 o The adjacent community should be guaranteed safe drinking water as defined in the Drinking Water Act. Air, noise and dust should be controlled to meet applicable standards. Ail monitoring, remediation must be done properly, under public scrutiny, with assurances of the quality of the work. The volume of waste to dispose of will be reduced between 50% to 70% per capita from what is presently disposed per capita in five years by: fo expanding the education program; placing emphasis, over the long term, on source reduction and reuse; implementing intensive, mandatory recycling of residential and commercial municipal solid waste, supported with adequate enforcement and public funds in two years; instituting wet stream composting; continuing and expanding the construction demolition debris separation, the leaf pile and leaf recycling, mulch production, tire recycling, and the business waste sort facility; testing pilot programs using alternative technologies. 7o A financing system should be put in place that will remove the dependency on trash volume (tip fee income) for financing education, recycling, and environmental control costs, and which will distribute the costs throughout the whole community. A master plan for final uses of the Ivy Landfill site should be developed now to insure the site is managed in a way that will allow the planned-for uses. 9. A one-time air quality monitoring study should be conducted. 10. The administrative structure should be changed to reflect the mandate of a higher level of focus on the three R's (Reduction, Reuse, Recycling) and the need to include more citizens, particularly the Ivy Landfill neighbors in information sharing and decision making by implementing the following substantial changes in the voting membership of the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority Board: Expanding the Board by three members to include three people elected by the Ivy Neighborhoods; Changing the status of the Chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee to voting member. 11. Conduct an independent program audit now and every year of the operations and projections under which solid waste is managed. 12. It is unacceptable: a. To landfill the volume currently being landfilled; b. Not to collect methane and other organic gases; c. To use unlined cells; d. To manage compost in the open; e. To bury hazardous waste at the landfill. 13. Implement Draper Aden recommendations regarding more frequent surface water testing, including occasional viral and bacterial testing. 14. Conduct waste audits semi-annually for two years to develop a solid base of information for taking actions and evaluating progress in waste reduction. September 18, 1996 (Adjourned Meeting) (Page 3) 15. The EPA National Priority List study makes it inappropriate to make a statement regarding the future of the Ivy Landfill at this time. There is also a large body of vital information being developed which should be available during the next nine months and which will affect any recommendation regarding the Ivy Landfill's future. This information includes the conclusions from the Risk Assessment Study and the Fate and Transport Study being conducted by Joyce Engineering, and the final Compliance Plan being negotiated between RSWA and DEQ. Members of the Task Force are willing to consider reconvening when the study is complete. It was the consensus of the Board of Supervisors and City Council that Rivanna staff go back and prioritize the recommendations and prepare a report on the implications of the recommendations of the Task Force. Agenda Item No. 3. Adjourn. The meeting was adjourned at 9:10 p.m.