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Commissioner Carey asked if any of the adjoining property owners were approached about purchasing the land, and Rod Visser said that they had not pursued this yet, but they will. Chair Jacobs said that he would like to see the property stay in as natural a state as possible because it is in a floodplain. John Link said that he has shared with Durham County the concept of moving this house and he will share with them the County's interest in placing one of the houses in Little River Park to see if they will participate since the park will be for both counties. c. Proposed Joint Grant Application to N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund -Upper Eno Watershed Protection The Board considered submitting a joint grant application with the Eno River Association to the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund for protection of lands in the Upper Eno Watershed. Environment and Resource Conservation Director David Stancil said that the proposal tonight is to submit a joint County-Eno River Association (ERA) application for funds from the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund to acquire land (riparian buffers) and conservation easements in the Upper Eno watershed. The objective would be to further protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the critical area of the Upper Eno Protected Watershed. A motion was made by Commissioner Brown, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to authorize the joint submittal of a grant application to the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund prior to the June 1, 2002 deadline to include asking the Town of Hillsborough to participate. VOTE: UNANIMOUS d. Legal Advertisement for Joint Planning Area Public Hearing -April 17, 2002 The Board considered a legal advertisement for items to be presented at the Joint Planning Area public hearing scheduled for April 17, 2002. Craig Benedict said that there are five items on the agenda with only one item for public hearing. He summarized the five items as listed in the agenda -Joint Planning Agreement Amendment (public hearing), Joint Planning Agreement Timeline, Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance, Land Use Element -Orange County Comprehensive Plan, and Chapel Hill Comprehensive Plan Amendments for the Northwest Area. Thomas Tempia, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor, was introduced. He will be helping to develop the updated comprehensive plan. Commissioner Brown asked why we do not have on this agenda the area that Chapel Hill removed from the urban services boundary. Craig Benedict said that Chapel Hill has not prepared an item for this agenda. We do need to bring forward what will be done in the southern triangle where the urban service line has retracted by virtue of Chapel Hill's comprehensive plan. There could be a discussion about this item at the April 17th meeting. Commissioner Brown said that she understood that this amendment was in the County's court. She would like to add this as a discussion item (non-public hearing item). Chair Jacobs suggested that item B-4 have two sections with the first being Chapel Hill's request and the second being the issues involved with the adoption of the Chapel Hill 2000 Comprehensive Land Use Plan. Commissioner Gordon asked about the presentation of the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance. Craig Benedict said that this would be an opportunity for questions and it would not be an elaborate presentation because all of the jurisdictions have heard the formal presentation. Commissioner Gordon would like the presentation to include the school membership and capacity information and the key elements of the memorandum of understanding that need to be decided upon. John Link recommends that this information be shared with the two school boards next Monday evening, the 25th to resolve any questions that the two school systems may have. Several language changes were made by the County Commissioners and were so noted by Craig Benedict.