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JUDGE DOERFLER calls up Agenda Item No. 33. Inaudible , mixed voices talk five or so seconds.

PITTMAN: Basically, I defer to Steve Jacobs from Waste Management to explain the agreement.

JACOBS: We worked on this for a long time.

BOATRIGHT: What's the highlights?

LIMMER: Well, the only ....

PITTMAN: The highlights--the original agreement was for the operation of the existing plat we're using right now, by Wolf, uh, after Waste Management started operating it, the agreement was amended to allow them, or to require them, to add the SOS property, which they did, and got the permit amendment for that and donate the land to the county.

NOTES:

DWIGHT PITTMAN, the assistant county engineer, represented Williamson County in working on the contract with Waste Management. Pct. 4 Commissioner Frankie Limmer also was involved in the contract negotiations. PITTMAN PREVIOUSLY WORKED FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT as an engineer on the same landfill.

STEVE JACOBS is a Waste Management, Inc. (WMI) employee who worked on the contract with Pittman and Limmer and continues as WMI's supervisor for regional landfills, including working on attempts during 2007-2009 to revise the 2003 contract with the county.

In asking the question about the "highlights", Boatright apparently had not read the contract. NOTICE THAT WHEN LIMMER TRIES TO ANSWER THE QUESTION AND ExPLAIN THE HIGHLIGHTS, PITTMAN (who formerly worked for Waste Management) cuts him off.

The DONATED LAND referenced by Pittman in his last statement on this page is the 79.9 acres related to the quitclaim deed given to the county by Waste Management in 1995 as part of the TCEQ 1405-A permit expansion, and Pittman also refers to it as "SOS" land. For a time, according to anecdotal reports, a private hauling company may have been using this non-permitted area for dumping sludge, before the practice was stopped because of complaints. The quitclaim deed for the donated land contains a so-called REVERSIONARY CLAUSE stating that the ownership of the land by the county is conditioned upon WMI having the landfill contract with the county. Neither PITTMAN nor JACOBS disclosed to commissioners during this presentation that the quitclaim deed contained the reversionary clause.