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I ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 23, 1999 Action Agenda Item No. p- 3 SUBJECT: Joint Master Recreation and Parks Report DEPARTMENT: County Manager, ERCD PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Executive Summary Work Group Report (under separate cover) INFORMATION CONTACT: Albert Kittrell, ext 2307 David Stancil, ext 2590 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732 -8181 Chapel Hill 968 -4501 Durham 688 -7331 Mebane 336- 227 -2031 PURPOSE: To receive the report of the Joint Master Recreation and Parks Work Group. BACKGROUND: In November 1997, the Board created the Joint Master Recreation and Parks Work Group. The group was charged to update and modify the Master Recreation and Parks Plan to be a joint long -range capital facilities plan, including an inventory of facilities, an assessment of needs and standards, and a review of payment -in -lieu programs and long -term parkland acquisition goals. The Work Group, comprised of elected board and advisory board representatives from each jurisdiction, has worked to explore these and other topics. The report, completed on May 26, contains a number of recommendations for the County and other jurisdictions, including the formation of a new Parks and Resource Lands Council as a long -term coordinating mechanism. The attached executive summary highlights those recommendations. FINANCIAL IMPACT: None at this time. Some recommendations of the report, to be considered later, would have financial implications. RECOMMENDATION(S): Receive as information. The Manager recommends that the Board consider the recommendations from the Work Group and discuss referral to advisory boards. The report is slated to be formally presented at the September 30 Assembly of Governments meeting.