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