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2014 Solid Waste Management Plan some of its activities that previously were part of the landfill division under its convenience center and recycling division. • In part, due to these efforts, as well as a decline in the total volume of waste disposed, the total cost of operating the solid waste system has declined from $11.4 million in FY 2008 to $10.4 million in FY 2013. Approximately 30% of the system total operations cost is for the CCCs and the transfer system from the CCCs to the Landfill for less than 10% of the waste and less than 5% or recyclables. • The .tonnage of waste disposed has declined by more than the reduction in solid waste costs, and thus the unit cost per ton of waste disposed has risen from $45.15 in FY 2008 to $55.43 in FY 2012, or 22.8% over this 4 year period. • The baseline projection of costs for FY 2014 through FY 2024 was developed assuming that the system costs would increase by 3.0% annually, while revenues, WGUs, and waste tonnages would increase by 0.5% annually. With these projections the ending cash balance would remain positive through FY 2017, but then become negative for the remainder of the projection period. Thus changes to the system and/or rates are needed to maintain SWDD's financial viability. • Fundamentally, the system has few guarantees to attract new collection, recycling and solid waste processing investment. The voluntary subscription collection system, year to year municipality participation, curbside recycling collection limitations and no commercial recycling program carries great risk for private vendors. Unless the County changes fundamentally its guarantees of waste into the system, much greater rates will be charged to customers and/or the County may need to take greater risk financially to attract these changes. Figure ES -1 depicts the existing landfill site configuration and the proposed Segment III Cells 1-8. ES -6 %NEEI_ SCHAFFER 162