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,~ • There are no policy or service boundary adjustment implications. Current policy allows approval of the request and no boundary adjustments are involved. • If approved, OWASA will recover all costs associated with this proposal as part of a written agreement between OWASA and Durham. • Under an existing agreement requested by the Orange County Board of Commissioners and OWASA, Durham currently accepts wastewater flows from 59 OWASA customers in the Piney Mountain Subdivision in Orange County. • OWASA believes approval of the proposal is appropriate because it is important that all water/sewer utilities in the region mutually support one another when it is feasible to do so (it is important to remember that Durham was standing by to provide OWASA with finished water if it had been necessary in the aftermath of the August 8, 2007 fire at OWASA's Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant), and that Durham has assisted the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community many times during past droughts and emergencies. A motion was made by Commissioner Nelson, seconded by Commissioner Carey to authorize OWASA to accept wastewater flow from the Blenheim Woods subdivision. VOTE: UNANIMOUS f. Approval of Revised 2008-18 Capital Investment Plan (CIP) Timeline The Board considered approving a revised adoption timeline for the proposed 2008-18 Capital Investment Plan. Laura Blackmon said that the staff has still not received unbudgeted CIP projects from the OCS. She is also going to be putting the County's unfunded projects in the matrix based on the ten-year timeframe. The revised timeline is for the Board's approval. It includes the presentation at the next Board meeting of Orange County's unfunded capital needs. There will be a workshop in mid-January to talk about the unfunded projects and local revenue options. Commissioner Gordon said that this is a doable schedule. She applauded starting the CIP process earlier. A motion was made by Commissioner Foushee, seconded by Commissioner Carey to approve a revised adoption timeline for the proposed 2008-18 Capital Investment Plan. VOTE: UNANIMOUS 7. Reports a. Report on the Development of Interim Solid Waste Management Plan The Board received information and considered providing direction on the development of an Interim Solid Waste Management Plan - 3-Year Update, for submission to the State, pending completion of ongoing Solid Waste Planning Work Group process. Blair Pollock asked for approval for the staff to go forward with this interim plan. The State statute requires three-year updates to the Ten-Year Solid Waste Management Plan. The County is behind schedule on this update because it is so elaborate and there are so many entities involved. He said that he anticipates completion of the update in about eight months. This should put the County in compliance. Chair Jacobs asked if there has been any feed back from the State about being late and Blair Pollock said no. Chair Jacobs said that this is a toothless enforcement. Commissioner Nelson supports this interim plan and he is concerned that this is 20 months behind. He wants to know if the process needs to be tweaked. He said that Orange County does have a habit in government of making processes way too complicated. He does not want the next plan to be this late.