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r 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 23, 1999 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Water and Sewer Management Planning and Boundary Agreement DEPARTMENT: Planning ~ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: "Final" version (4130/99) of Water and Gene Bell, ext 2589 Sewer I•Jlanagement Planning and Boundary Agreement Excerpt from 2/11/99 OWASA Minutes TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To receive a report on the work of the Water and Sewer Service Boundary Task Force and review the "final" version of the Water and Sewer Management Planning and Boundary Agreement. BACKGROUND: The elected boards of Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough and the appointed Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA} Board of Directors adopted resolutions in April 1994 to create a Water and Sewer Service Boundary Task Force to develop water and sewer service boundaries for the County's service providers. Commissioner Moses Carey served as chair of the Task Force that began meeting in June 1994. In December 1994, the Task Force issued a preliminary report with a "straw" set of service boundaries, accompanied by a list of inter-re{ated objectives to be addressed. In 1995, the elected and appointed boards passed resolutions agreeing at different levels of detail with the initial report, and charged. the Task Force to continue meeting to work through the issues and service boundaries. After almost five years of diligent work, the Task Force is pleased to present the "final" version of the Water and Sewer Management Planning and Boundary Agreement. FINANCIAL IMPACT: None at this time. RECOMMENDATION(S): .The Manager recommends that the Board receive the report for information only at this time.