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MR. BUKLAREWICZ: <br />Okay. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br /> Any other discussion on that before we move… <br />MR. TAKABA: <br /> There might be other options to pay as you throw. That’s not the only option <br />to raise revenues. Another option would be to put it on your tax bill for all the residents then <br />everybody pays right or another way would be to raise the tipping fee. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />It’s pretty high already. <br />MR. TAKABA: <br /> Or charge a tipping fee or just raise it. Environmental Management knows <br />about how much garbage each household generates so it would cost each household about $85 a <br />year. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />So would it be helpful after we have read this to have the discussion at a <br />time when we have someone from DEM here to talk about it or not? What is your… <br />MS. O’HARA: <br /> Do we have on the agenda next time Bobby Jean Leithead coming to speak <br />with us? <br />MS. CARVALHO: <br /> Yes, she is going to be talking about impact fees and consolidation. That <br />is all we requested. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />Right. I happened to have a chance meeting with her last week and she’s a big <br />advocate of putting everything on the property tax bill in terms of what we need to support <br />infrastructure, what we need to support solid waste disposal, everything. I think this is a <br />discussion we might be able to have with her, she has considerable background as well having <br />served as the attorney to the Department of Environmental Management when she was with <br />Corp Counsel. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Okay. <br />MR. TAKABA: <br />I guess the reason this is a very important issue is because there’s such a big <br />subsidy that goes to the solid waste fund from the general fund. You know like twenty million <br />dollars a year and it keeps going up. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />Yeah we need another way to directly fund… <br />MR. TAKABA: <br /> Some jurisdictions treat it as a self sustained utility where they have to make <br />ends meet by raising enough revenue. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Well at the next meeting which I will not be here for but if we have a <br />chance to read the report and maybe ask Bobby Jean then you can decide if you want to do <br />something else before making any kind of recommendation or not making a recommendation. <br />MR. MATSUDA: <br />Is there any kind of fees whatsoever charged on your real property tax for <br />something similar to this? <br />MR. TAKABA: <br />It can be done. <br />20 <br /> <br />