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Minutes 08-13-84 MINUTES OF SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL, BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA, AUGUST 13, 1984 AT 7:30 P. M. RE SITE BEING PROPOSED BY PALM BEACH COUNTY SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY Present Mayor Carl Zimmerman Vice Mayor Robert Ferrell Councilma~ Nick Cassandra Councilman James R. Warnke Peter L. Cheney, City Manager Mayor Zimmerman called the meeting to order at 7:35 P. M. and introduced Timothy F. Hunt, Jr., Executive Director, Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority, Suite 2C, 5114 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach, Florida 33409. Mr. Hunt told the hiStory of the Solid Waste Authority, which was established by the Legislature in 1974, and stated that it was unique in the united States at that time and remains unique in that it is composed of all elected officials (4 elected City officials and 3 elected County officials). The principal job of the Authority is to plan for and imple- ment a Countywide solid waste management. The Authority has limited jurisdiction, meaning they could establish a minimum collection criteria, but the Solid Waste Authority has decided to stay out of the collecting business. Mr. Hunt referred to land fills and said 1/3 of Boynton Beach creates the entire waste of the Glades area. He called attention to the increased amount of waste every day and the impact it has on the County. Mr. Hunt said the first thing they did was evaluate all of the collection systems in Palm Beach County and through that devised a system that indicated that over the next 20 to 30 years collection vehicles should not have to travel more than 10 miles one way. He talked about equipment, vehicles, and loads. In 1979, the facilities' plan adopted by the Authority and the State of Florida stated the Comprehensive Plan would include the construction of coastal transfer stations along the 1-95 corridor to serve the populated cities that border both sides of the corridor. It included two major new land fills (Lantana and Dyer Boulevard) at that time. Now it is Boynton Beach. Mr. Hunt told of the cost of recycling and land fills. Mr. Hunt said they have recommended that all land fills in Palm Beach County be completely lined. One land fill would - 1 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 serve the northend of the County, and one would serve the southend, replacing Lantana. In addition, they would have four vegetative waste sites, like Boynton Beach land. Two would be in the south and two would be in the north, to handle landscape debris from homeowners and lawn maintenance people. Mr. Hunt also told of their evaluations of energy recovery. Because of the growth in Palm Beach County, the basic organi- zational facilities have not changed. They are now recommending three coastal transfer stations: one in the north, south central, and one in the south. The one in Delray Beach would be the southern one. The one in the north would be the first major facility site, and Mr. Hunt told about this site. With closure plans going in at Dyer and approval plans for closure at Lantana, Mr. Hunt said they turned their efforts to the two major facilities needed in Palm Beach County. With Lantana being one of these, this is very critical to Boynton Beach because all of Boynton's waste goes to Lantana and will have to go to this facility. If this facility is not brought on the line by the time Lantana closes, Mr. Hunt said the City will have a long haul. Mr. Hunt informed the Council that the site they selected is at the Southwest corner of Lantana Road and 1-95. The land fill is west on Lantana Road. Mr. Hunt said they are in the process now of negotiating for the land. Councilman Cassandra asked if that facility would have the same configuration as the one in Delray. Mr. Hunt replied that it will not because this is a rectangular piece of land. What is in Delray now will be eliminated in the next 12 months. Councilman Cassandra pointed out that the transportation concept is where we take the City trucks and unload them onto the Solid Waste Authority's trucks. Starting with this facility, Mr. Hunt said all transfer stations are built to be entirely in a closed building. He told Councilman Cassandra he will not be able to see what goes on. Trucks will come into the site, get weighed, go inside a door, and inside a building, dump their loads, and go outside another door. They will get compacted or loaded into a 75 to 100 foot transfer trailer, and the transfer trailer will use one of the major corridors to the disposal site. Mr. Hunt explained the Delray facility and the reason for its problems. Councilman Cassandra informed him they have MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 problems with odor. Mr. Hunt assured Councilman Cassandra they would not have any odor with the new facility because inside of the building there will be very large vent fans that will trap everything inside and draw them out. Also, Mr. Hunt said it is against the law to keep refuse in a transfer station overnight. The Delray facility will be entirely replaced with a completely enclosed building in the next 12 months. Mr. Hunt continued that they are looking for an alternate to the site they selected in case there is an environmental condition that will prevent it from being permitted, designed, and contracted. He showed where they will have to locate transfer facilities. A Consultant was hired to seek out the sites. He was given the criteria that the Solid Waste Authority needed a net of 350 acres (310 acres for the land fill, and 40 for the recovery facility) with no buffer at all. Based on what is happening all over the United States, it would take a 40% increase on the minimum net, so Mr. Hunt said they were look- ing for 500 to 600 acres of land in order to create a substantial buffer within their boundaries all around the operation, and he explained some reasons. One is the law reads that if you are generating leakage from your land fill in an uncontrolled manner, you must legally stop it at the foot of the land fill. Mr. Hunt told of the Lantana land fill and the development around it and pointed out the need of accessibility to sites from major roads. Major roads here are Atlantic Avenue, Boynton Beach Boulevard, Hypoluxo Road, and Lantana Road. The north/ south arteries are 1-95, Congress Avenue, Military Trail, and State Road 7, and maybe one of these days Mr. Hunt said there would also be Jog Road and Lawrence Road. They also need access to power lines and transmission lines. In this area, they have the Boynton Canal with a brand new transmission line on the north side of the Boynton Canal from the lift station on Military Trail. There is a major transmission line running west of State Road 7 and another transmission line running down Clint Moore Road. It costs $200,000 to $300,000 a mile to build a transmission power line, so they have that to consider from an economic standpoint. Councilman Cassandra noted Mr. Hunt talked about containing it because of the boundaries they are allowing themselves. He asked what that will do to the City's water supply. Mr. Hunt answered that State law requires that you underline - 3 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 across from a land fill with single lining. The Authority has directed them, from a design standpoint, to include two liners. In places around the United States where liners have been put in, no breaks have been detected in them. Mr. Hunt said they are putting in two liners on the assumption that human error may cause a break in the upper liner. Then you would have a second liner. There is no State or Federal law requiring that a land fill be lined. They are preparing a proposal to the Authority to underline with soil cement rather than a plastic lining on the assumption they are going to create leakage and you want to collect and treat it rather than allowing it to discharge by itself. He stated they are in an industry that Ks new and informed the Council one thing the land fills will pro- duce is large quantities of DOD concentrations that will get into the water. Councilman Cassandra questioned whether the soil cement will be an enclosure type thing or an aqueduct type thing. Mr. Hunt replied it is very similar to using clay. You can mix it at different grades to get greater concentrations. Councilman Cassandra asked who inspects the trash transferred to a land fill. Up until two months ago, Mr,'-~ replied no one inspected the trash. With the expansion of the City and new industry coming in, Councilman Cassandra wondered if it was possible they had hazard waste of some form or shape and how they could control that problem. Two months ago, Mr. Hunt said they started inspecting random loads of trash. Some people will knowingly send hazardous waste in small quantiities to a land fill. For example, homeowners throw out paint thinner cans. Raid cans can be considered hazardous. Homeowners probably have more hazards in their garages than a business does. Mr. Hunt told of industries that store hazardous waste and transport it out of state. Their filters were found in the land fill. Mr. Hunt stated they are doing a separate assessment on hazardous waste. It is to be done by July of next year, and a separate criteria will be set up to handle hazardous waste under State law. The ones that are hard to catch are the municipal trash drivers who are picking up the trash, and they are inspecting as many as a dozen trucks a day. The transfer stations will allow them to inspect trash on the floor before it gets near a land fill. There will be spotters checking for these items. - 4 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 Mr. Hunt said a man was told to do an independent study, independent of them, so he created his own study committee. Many of the people on his committee were adamantly opposed to this site and fought it for two years. Public Works Directors and Dick Simmons, City Manager of West Palm Beach, were on the committee. They evaluated 16 sites and different departments talked to them. Mr. Hunt said they tentatively designated the site south of Boynton Road in the agricultural area. They confined the area of investigation to Boynton Road on the north, Clint Moore Road on the south, the turn- pike on the east, and the catchment area. ~J~r. Warnke asked what Mr. Hunt meant by the "catchment area." Mr. Hunt replied, "The conservation area." Mr. Hunt said the memorandum which was handed out is on the agenda for Wednesday's meeting, and he is to reevaluate these and compare everything to Site 8, which was selected. He stated he will recommend to the Board that the presenta- tion of formal recommendations be deferred for thirty (30) days, which will allow him time to finish the evaluation. He is also asking for policy guidance from the Board. Mr. Hunt is going to ask the Board if they do wish or do not wish that he look at areas immediately adjacent to residen- tial development. Site #10, immediately south of Holiday City and west of Boynton Beach, is a site used for agri- culture but less extensively than other acreage. It was next to a residential development and offered by a land owner. Aside from Holiday City, it was the better site. Secondly, Mr. Hunt wants the Board to provide him the guidance to stay away from agricultural lands in accordance with the County's Land Use Plan, if at all possible. A1 McGregor, McGregor Realty, 110 South Federal Highway, Boynton Beach, asked if the Committee that is recommending this site had those three items to go by. Mr. Hunt said they did not, and that was why he was asking for them. Mr. Hunt showed two agricultural reserve areas and told about them. He wants the direction to stay away from productive agricultural land, if at all possible. Thirdly, between Clint Moore Road and Boynton West Road on the north, there are only two currently unused pieces of land. One has enough acreage, but there would not be any buffer, and it is within 1/2 mile of an established residential area. The other one is large enough until he subtracts all of the wetlands on the site, the FP&L transmission line easement, - 5 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 and the easements for State Road 7 in case no~ enough acreage is left. Essentially, in the area they asked Mr. Hunt to look at, there is nothing if they want him to stay away from productive agricultural land and residential dwellings. If the Board goes along with these three guidelines, which will expand the search area to the Broward County line, Mr. Hunt hoped to be in a position to give a recommendation in September or, at the latest, in October. Mr. Hunt said they would end up with three transfer stations along the eastern coast, two major facilities, and maybe a transfer station at a facility in the Glades, and he explained. He said the floor space and compaction capability can handle over 1,000 tons a day. Mr. Hunt informed the Council they have selected a refuse dry fuel for the recovery plant. It processes waste to give much higher fuel value, is less damaging to equipment, affords the opportunity to recycle, cuts down on air pollution, and gives a cleaner ash. They expect to reduce their dependence on land fills by 70%. Between the two sites, there will be enough acreage for the time when we will be forced to experience a large hurricane. 14 million yards of trash was generated in Mobile, Alabama in two days. Councilman Cassandra followed Mr. Hunt's reasoning for stay- ing next to the Turnpike because of roads, population, etc. With expansion going on, he asked why Mr. Hunt did not go more out west and asked if it was because of wetlands and environ- mental reasons. Because we have a 45 mile coast here, Mr. Hunt said we have a natural divide traveling on State Road 80. North of State Road 80, once you get west of State Road 7, you are in nothing but wetlands. South of here, excluding Wellington and one mile west of State Road 7, you have Conser- vation Area 91. Also, there is no water out there. All of the water that serves the agricultural interests comes from Lake Okeechobee, and Mr. Hunt went into detail. Councilman Warnke called attention to the area just west of 441 and north of Boynton Road and said the canal that runs approximately from the Faith Farm west is an easement from the Lake Worth Drainage District. To the west of the high line is a County reserve shellrock area. There is a huge complex of Indian mounds. Mr. Hunt said that site "bit the dust" very early because of dead Indians and wetlands. It is also subject to sink hole development. Councilman Warnke said our City has been discussed for reverse osmosis for canal water. The main canal comes from that - 6 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 area. Councilman Warnke asked if any studies had been done for possible pollution of the canal. Now that they are stopped at Boynton Road, Mr. Hunt did not think the City had anything to worry about. Had they been on Site 10, the Authority would have a very serious environmental assessment on its hands. It doesn't affect the City's canal and maybe the City's wells, but Councilman Warnke wondered about the wells of Delray Beach. As he said, Mr. Hunt repeated they will end up lining the trash fill and collecting all the waste material that passes through the trash and treating it before it is dis- charged by deep well or put into a sewer system. The Department of Environmental Regulations and Department of Health developed regulations and are supposed to protect the public. The new land fills they designed are designed to exceed Federal and State standards. Mr. Hunt told of studies and tests they did at the Lantana site. He showed the Council photographs. Three were of vegetative waste sites. None of them were in isolated areas. Mr. Hunt told what could be found at trash sites. Councilman Cassandra read about ash being toxic. Mr. Hunt replied there are two kinds of ashes that come out of a combustion facility (bottom ash and fly ash). Bottom ash does not pose a pollution problem and is not toxic. The problem is fly ash. In most combustion facilities, the gases that rise from combustion are pulled and electrostatically precipitated down like powder with electrically charged devices to suck it out. Depending on the quality of com- bustion, you can end up with concentrated heavy metal. If the ashes are left in that state by themselves, you could, depending on chemical analysis, come up with toxic waste. It is difficult to tell what you will get until you burn it. Mr. Hunt told of testing garbage. One thing that has known problems are the plastics. Whether or not you get them in the air pollution control devices depends on controlled combustion in the system and the temperatures. If you are not careful how you proceed with combustion, you can end up with a lot of chlorides. That is why they have the double lined land fill. Mr. McGregor asked Mr. Hunt to explain how they build a liner. Mr. Hunt showed a land fill and said you berm all the way around it to a height of five or six feet. First, you have to smooth off the bottom, put a layer of sand and grub it clean so you have no roots. Then you put one or two feet of a small bed of clean sand (dredge sand). They are putting - 7 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 down 30 mill PVC liner which comes in strips 100 yards wide. You lay it in the ground up over the lip of the berm from one side to the other side and overlay each strip, then come back with an adhesive glue like Crazy glue and strip it. The Lab analyzes it. You end up with a barrier. Then you come back with two more feet of dredge sand and push it in from one side and continually work it out. In their case, they took old tires and ended up with a floating cushion across the top. Next, you put in your municipal garbage and start the same way, at the edge, dump it inside and push it, etc. Then you have a whole bed across the base of the land fill. By doing that you protect the liner from being cut, torn, or punctured. Puncturing a liner is of concern to everybody, and Mr. Hunt talked about monitoring walls. Councilman Warnke referred to toxic waste and asked where it goes to. Mr. Hunt replied the only people who can permit a hazardous waste facility are in the Federal Government. The State of Florida will be able to permit within the next year. Right now, there are only two facilities in the southeast. One is in Alabama, and the other one is in South Carolina. The State of Florida now requires all counties to do a hazardous waste survey of all small generators. The Solid Waste Authority has that responsibility in Palm Beach County, and Mr. Hunt explained the program. As part of the assess- ment, each County has to identify two possible hazard sites. If they fail to do that, the Cabinet of the State of Florida can designate those sites. Don Zyto, Vice President and Senior Banking Officer, Barnett Bank, asked how many dump trucks a day they generate to a land fill. At Lantana, Mr. Hunt said they get 500 to 600 trucks a day. Once the transfer station sites are in, the number will be cut to less than 300 and he explained. Councilman Warnke ascertained there is only about 1/4 of the County we can use. Out of a 2400 square mile County, Mr. Hunt advised they have 600 square miles to work with. The environmental laws prevent them from going out west. Mr. Hunt confirmed Councilman Cassandra's statement that the people concerned about Site 8 have another thirty days before the Board gets Mr. Hunt's recommendation. Mr. Hunt said he requested a 30 day deferment. If the Board adopts the policy considerations, then agriculture would not be the prime target but a target of last resort. They already eliminated environmentally sensitive land. If you take the position you are not going to put something adjacent to a developed MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH' FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 area, that only leaves one undeveloped land, which is an agricultural land. Councilman Cassandra asked how much acreage is available further south. Mr. Hunt replied they are looking for a parcel with a minimum of 600 acres of land. He did not think there was a piece of land anywhere in the strip from 441 to the Turnpike. Councilman Cassandra gathered when Mr. Hunt wanted the 30 days he wanted further area to look at and wanted the boundary line in the southend to drop further down. Mr. Hunt wanted it to go at least to 441. Councilman Warnke referred to 20 Mile Bend and did not think that was a solution. Mr. Hunt answered, "Not unless you want to add about 200 or 300 additional tractor trailers for that road." He gave an example and said there are 70,000 people out there. Mr. Hunt also pointed out the haul time. Every truck and trailer costs $100,000 and $1.15 a mile to operate plus the driver and liability exposure. They are trying to keep the cost down to something that is reasonable. Mr. Irving Russo, 8210 Whitewood Cove East, Lake Worth 33463 asked if any rail transport was considered. Three Consultants looked at it, and Mr. Hunt advised that from an economic standpoint, it is worse than driving trucks and trailers out there. However, a reason for the sites along the corridor is an anticipation that some time down the road the rail business may be viable, at least for scrap metal possibilities. Since they started this, City Manager Cheney asked how many sites in Palm Beach County Mr. Hunt had looked at for one thing or another. Mr. Hunt guessed they were around 80 now. He told Councilman Cassandra he did not get to "not adjacent to residential yet." Councilman Cassandra asked what made Mr. Hunt come down here and eliminate the other 79. Mr. Hunt replied they dropped about 30 of them when they selected the north site. He showed the distribution of the sites and locations of waste basins. Councilman Warnke could understand adjoining neighbors and DuBois Farms objecting to this site. Mr. Hunt replied that it is hard to define how far away a site ought to be because people are protective of their homes. He could almost guarantee that from Southern Boulevard south, there is no place in Palm Beach County where you can site a facility like this and have more than a mile between an existing established residential area and its boundaries. - 9 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 If one mile from a developed residential community becomes one of the guidelines, Mr. Owen Anderson, Chamber of Commerce, asked Mr. Hunt if, for practical purposes, Site 8 would be eliminated. Mr. Hunt replied it would have to be. One mile from a residential development is not one of the policy guidelines, but it is not to be immediately adja- cent to a residential development. If they adopt the one that says productive agricultural lands should not be considered, Mr. Hunt said everything from Boynton Road to Delray West Road would be eliminated. Then City Manager Cheney pointed out he would be looking at the east side of Four Points and the west side of 441. Mr. Hunt replied, "No." There is some type of productive agricultural activity." There is a little piece of land west of Atlantic Boulevard extended, but that is the one with the FP&L ease- ment and wetlands'. City Manager Cheney asked if one of the criterion is set to go. If they provide him with the criteria he asked for, Mr. Hunt replied there are two or three pieces of property that could fall in there. He was not saying it would fall in there under the same conditions, as there may be some trade offs. If they want not to be next to a residential area and not to take active agriculture out of production, Mr. Hunt said the City will have to pay a penalty for that. The penalty would be higher costs for disposal. City Manager Cheney asked for what purpose the higher costs would be and whether it would be to take it somewhere else. If you move out of this zone, Mr. Hunt said you cause a distance. If they move down, City Manager Cheney observed they would be moving into West Boca Raton, and they will be saying they do not want it in West Boca Raton. That was why Mr. Hunt asked that the search area be extended. Not one possibility he will have will be acceptable to everybody. City Manager Cheney noted Mr. Hunt was saying with that cri- teria there really is not any land in that area that meets both of those desirable criteria.~ That was why Mr. Hunt said agricultural land should not be considered, if possible. Mr. Hunt said he will'be forced to look at the productivity of land and use that as a comparison and show the Board what their options are. Their options will be nothing but a series of trade offs. City Manager Cheney determined the City has to become realistic because the City produces garbage every day and it has to go somewhere. - 10 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 Councilman Warnke asked if the Southwest corner of Boynton Road and 441 was considered. Mr. Hunt replied there was not enough acreage. Councilman Cassandra referred to a wide area of acreage, and Mr. Hunt said the problem there is that everybody west of Royal Palm Beach drinks water from their own 30 or 35 foot deep private wells. There is no aquifer. If for some reason, there would be a break in the land fill and you contaminated that sand bed area, Mr. Hunt said you would wipe out everybody's well. The area looks unpopulated but the very reason there is no development out there is the same reason you cannot put the facility there. Mr. Charles Lee Andrews, West Palm Beach, said at a power generation plant they use a diked in reservoir for cooling. Mr. Hunt informed him the Solid Waste Authority will not. He indicated a site and said they will draw it up from the ground water underneath the existing land fill or take it from the regional wastewater plant. He showed another site where they will take it from the aquifer. Next Meeting Mr. Hunt informed Councilman Warnke the next meeting will be at the County's Governmental Complex on Wednesday, August 15, 1984 at 8:30 A. M. ADJOURNMENT The meeting properly adjourned at 9:00 P. M. CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA Vice Mayor ~Rg~ ~~~C~o~un c i lman - 11 - MINUTES - SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING RE SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY PROPOSED SITE BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA AUGUST 13, 1984 ATTEST: / City Cler~ Re . :~ _61,~ / ~. ~,~9~1 C°~Td~°ngTaS~sr~tary ~ Councilman - 12 - PALM BEACH COUNTY SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY ITEM: AuEust 9, 1984 TO: FROM: SUBJECT: Solid Waste Authority Board Timothy F. Hunt, Jr. Executive Director South County Class III Trashfill & Future Resource Recovery Facility Site At the July Authority Board meeting, site #8 was tentatively selected by the Board for' the subject uses. However, the Board further directed Staff to provide additional evaluation of alternate sites for possible consideration. All such sites were to be compared to Site #8 and the search area was establish as follows: SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST - Clint Moore Road - Conservation Area I - Boynton Beach Blvd - Florida Turnpike Furthermore, Staff was to report back to the Board at the August meeting. During the course of the past three weeks, Authority Staff has accomplishec the following regarding this alternate site evaluation: 1. Completely re-evaluated the consultant site evaluation study, which we found to be comprehensive, thorough and completely in accordance with the directions provided by the Board. 2. Ordered the most currently available photography of the search area. 3. Reviewed available documentation regarding land use policies, soils, ground and surface water and environmental contraints. 4. Met or talked with the following: a). County Planning & Zoning Dept. b). Department of Environmental Regulation c). County transportation engineers d). Representation of the Agricultural Community and representatives of the Conservation Area. e). Real Estate Interests 5114 Okeechobee Blvd,/Suite 2C /West Palm Beach, Florida 33409 /Telephone (305) 471-5770 PAGE ~2 South County Class III Trashfill 5. We have also flown over the entire area. However, Staff has not completed its evaluation to the extent that all affected groups and agencies have not yet been contacted and advised of our project efforts on this subject site. Furthermore, we have not completed compliation of or data and information for a comprehensive presentation and recommendation to the Board. Authority Staff needs further policy direction from the Board in order to provide a thorough and meaningful evaluation of possible alternative sites. Specific policy considerations: 1. No site immediately adjacent to residential communities should be considered. 2. Avoidance of P~odUctive agricultural land in accordance with County land use policy, if possible. 3. Expansion of the evaluation area, south to the Palm Beach/Browa~d County border. RECOMMENDATION: Postpone discussion of the South County Class III Trashfill site for at least 30 days and approve the three (3) above stated policy guidlines.