Resolution No. 2000-4

Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority ("LCSWMA") is a public agency which is responsible on behalf of Lancaster County for providing an effective, efficient, reliable and environmentally safe system for the storage, collection, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid waste generated within Lancaster County. The existing Frey Farm Landfill is one of the principal components of LCSWMA's system. The available capacity of the existing Frey Farm Landfill is projected to be exhausted by the year 2018, but there are circumstances which could result in the existing capacity being exhausted as early as 2008. Under existing agreements, LCSWMA's obligations to provide an integrated solid waste disposal system for the County of Lancaster continue until at least 2030. Therefore, in August 1999, LCSWMA began the process of planning for landfill facilities which will be needed following exhaustion of the Frey Farm Landfill. In connection with LCSWMA's planning process, LCSWMA asked ARM Group, Inc. (ARM) to consider alternatives such as the feasibility of expansion of the existing landfill and alternative locations for a new landfill. ARM has advised LCSWMA that expansion of the existing landfill is the recommended long term alternative. LCSWMA's Board of Directors believes that its responsibility for long-term planning includes LCSWMA's acquiring rights and options to purchase properties which in the future may be needed by LCSWMA.

On June 16, 2000, LCSWMA's Board of directors approved a Resolution which authorized and directed the Executive Director, together with the solicitor, to enter into negotiations to acquire on behalf of LCSWMA agreements which will grant LCSWMA an option to purchase properties which in the future may be needed by LCSWMA. Those negotiations have resulted in proposed Agreements whereby LCSWMA will acquire options to purchase nine (9) tracts of land in Manor Township. LCSWMA's Board of Directors has reviewed the proposed Agreements and has determined that obtaining options to purchase these properties is appropriate and necessary in connection with LCSWMA's obligation to provide long term planning for Lancaster County's solid waste disposal system.

RESOLVED, THEREFORE,

1. That LCSWMA shall enter into the proposed Agreements as presented to this meeting, such Agreements to be signed on behalf of the Authority by the Chairman or Executive Director;
2. That the Executive Director, is authorized and directed to take all actions which are appropriate or necessary to carry forth the provisions of the Agreements;
3. That the Executive Director is authorized and directed to take such actions as are appropriate to assure the neighbors in the vicinity of the properties which are the subject of the Agreements that LCSWMA is committed to taking appropriate actions so as not to adversely affect its neighbors, including entering into negotiations to acquire on behalf of LCSWMA, agreements to purchase, or agreements which will grant LCSWMA the option to purchase, properties which in the future may be needed by LCSWMA in connection with, or which might be adversely affected by, expansion of LCSWMA's facilities (any such agreements shall be subject to, and effective only upon, approval by LCSWMA's Board of Directors); and
4. That the Executive Director, together with the solicitor, is authorized and directed to continue with all actions which are appropriate or necessary in connection with LCSWMA's future decision whether to exercise its option to purchase the properties which are the subject of the Agreements.

APPROVED: November 17, 2000

LANCASTER COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

By:
Gerald G. (Jack) Frost, Chairman