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Commissioner Scurlock was not sure from the memo if staff is suggesting negotiating a contract with Air Burners, Inc., or bidding it out. Administrator Chandler advised that staff is just recommend- ing these trees go to the Landfill, and they only gave the Board this information to try to get a gauge on what the expense might be if we had it burned by an outside source. Chairman Bird asked if $20.00 a ton represents any discount, and was informed that it does not; it is the standard Landfill rate. Chairman Bird felt, in that case, we are not doing anything to encourage people to bring in these dead trees, but Administra- tor Chandler clarified that the incentive is that the fee would be waived for those persons and we would be picking up that expense. Commissioner Scurlock noted that, in other words, apparently the proposal is not to take this particular company and have them ,set up a burner at the Landfill but just whatever came in, we would handle ourselves with our burner, chipper, etc. Director Davis agreed and explained that if we decide to go to an outside source, we would go to a more formal bidding process. This was just a quotation to give us an idea of the cost involved in having a contractor come in and set up at one of the county sites to do the burning. Discussion continued as to what exactly was intended, and Chairman Bird asked about the possibility of doing a combined operation and opening up two locations to receive and burn this material. Possibly one location could be the Fairgrounds, and we still would have the ability to receive it at the Landfill also. Director Davis advised that we anticipated having two sites in the County if we were going to contract this out - one would be the Fairgrounds and another possibility is the 74th Avenue/4th Street site where the old marl pit used to be. He agreed that we could have the South County material hauled to the Landfill and the North County material to the Fairgrounds, but the big question with all this is that we don't know how much material we are going to receive. Commissioner Scurlock believed there is an existing chipper facility in the Gifford area. Director Pinto did not know anything about that, but advised that when the clearing was done in the area behind Marvin's Gardens, the developer brought in a temporary air burner. He felt what the Board may want to do if we are going to haul this material to an area outside the Landfill is let it stockpile and then bring the burner in later when we see how much we have. AUL 91; , iJ BOOK a �� '� F., c d 4 iD