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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 15, 2009 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 6 -~. <br />SUBJECT: Acceptance of Homestead Community Center Bid and Discussion of <br />Preservation Easements for Churton Street Properties <br />DEPARTMENT: Asset Management & <br />Purchasing Services (AMPS), <br />County Attorney <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Resolution <br />Historic Preservation Easement Pam Jones, AMPS, (919) 245-2652 <br />John Roberts, County Attorney, (919) <br />245-2318 <br />David Cannell, AMPS, (919) 245-2651 <br />PURPOSE: 1) To consider approving a resolution authorizing the sale of Homestead Center <br />located at 600 Homestead Road in Chapel Hill; and <br />2) To consider placing, or causing to be placed, Historic Preservation Agreements <br />on two Churton Street County properties; and re-starting the divestiture <br />process by re-advertising the .properties for sale. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Homestead Community Center <br />On November 5, 2009 the Board authorized staff to begin an upset bid procedure on the <br />property located at 600 Homestead Road in Chapel Hill otherwise known as the Homestead <br />Community Center. Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project submitted the highest bid in the <br />amount of $275,000 as part of the initial bid on October 20, 2009. No upset bids were received <br />as a result of the statutorily required 10-day advertisement and bid call, so the Chapel Hill <br />Outreach bid stands and is recommended for award. <br />Churton Street Properties: Preservation Easement <br />Also at the November 5, 2009 meeting, the Board rejected bids that had been received for the <br />following properties <br />• Clerk of Court Annex, 112 N. Churton Street, Hillsborough <br />• Graham Building, 118 N. Churton Street, Hillsborough <br />The Board expressed a desire to encumber the property through preservation easement or <br />other manner that would ensure the historic significance of the properties would be preserved. <br />Information provided by the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina (Preservation <br />NC), a non-profit corporation providing stewardship fora variety of Historic properties <br />throughout the State, indicates both of the buildings are "important commercial buildings in <br />downtown Hillsborough". Preservation NC notes the "larger building at 112 N. Churton was <br />