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On January 10, 2008, the
Board of Supervisors held a work session with George Fitch,
Mayor for the Town of Warrenton and County staff and
received an update on a proposal to build a waste to energy
facility at the County’s sanitary landfill. Under the
proposal, municipal solid waste would be incinerated to
create electricity which would then be sold. In the future,
the waste would be refined into bio-fuels. At the end of
the work session the Mayor requested, and the Board
directed, that staff put together a document evidencing its
interest in the project. The resolution presented with this
agenda item would direct staff to create and issue a Request
for Proposals on a Public/Private Partnership project to
convert municipal solid waste to energy and/or biofuels.
The Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure
Act of 2002 (PPEA) Request for Proposal is a non-binding
process that would allow the County to receive and evaluate
proposals. If the Board finds upon evaluation that a
proposal has merit, it can then select an entity to
negotiate with on the terms of an actual agreement. |