ORD-2011-004 Capital Projects Budget Ordinance Amendments – Budget Amendment #6-A

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7� Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the first page and the full red line about the one million gallon per day allocation. He said that this is something that bothers him. He said that Hillsborough did have an allocation and they decided that they did not want to pay for it and gave it up. Orange County has been paying every year. He said that if this resolution is going to say how much OWASA has paid, this resolution needs to say how much Orange County has paid. He said that it seems that if the State has had the County paying all these years and then there is a new plan with no payment, then he would like to get the money back. He would like to ask for this money back in a separate resolution because it has had no bearing on an allocation of water from Jordan Lake. He suggested that OWASA do the same thing. Ed Kerwin said that during the last round of allocation, OWASA voluntarily asked to reduce the allocation from 10 to 5 million gallons per day and the State did reimburse. Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the point that Commissioner Gordon is making and said that there is a context to this. This agreement was carefully crafted to balance concerns of four governments and OWASA. He said that this is a very truncated version. He urged staff to give more context, so that the Board is grounded with the right kind of information. Commissioner Gordon said that she thinks that there is time to get it right. Chair Pelissier asked when OWASA needed to have this done and when this is scheduled to be considered by the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough. Frank Clifton said that Hillsborough will review it on January 24th. Craig Benedict said that Chapel Hill and Carrboro bdttfT ave it scheduled within the next two weeks. Commissioner Jacobs s6i6lhat'he does not think that Orange County needs permission from Chapel Hill and Carrboro to apply for an allocation from Jordan Lake. Ed Kerwin said that it is ridt'necessary to act tonight, but it is important to wrap this up by the spring and absolutely before summer break. Commissioner Yuhasz saidthat'the County Attorney has said that the language as presented here would void all of the "boundary restrictions included in the rest of the agreement, and he would like him to review the language to make sure that this is not done. He does not want the flexibility of the languagelo void the rest of the agreement. A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Hemminger to refer this back to Manager /Attorney /relevant staff and the towns to provide a review of the proposed language changes in the context of the entire agreement, give the pros and cons for the proposed changes, and confer with the staff of the towns so as to craft language that takes into account the input from the staff of the county and towns. The information will also include how much money the County hat'spent to date on this. Craig Benedict asked if thbr6 was intent to include Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough in this agreement arid the Board said yes. VOTE: UNANIMOUS c. County Capital Projects Budget Ordinance Amendments – Budget Amendment — T� #6 –A The Board considered approving Budget Amendment #6 -A for $13,097, 651 for the County Capital Projects Fund. The proposed correct project budgets for the Lands Legacy (Attachment 1), Conservation Easements (Attachment 2), and Efland Sewer Development (Attachment 3) are shown in the background section of the agenda materials. Michael Talbert presented this item. He referred to the rose - colored handout which pertains to this item. The last two pages the County Commissioners have not seen before. Page 9 gives additional information describing how the proposed corrected budget figure of $6, 010, 452 was derived for the Lands Legacy Project Budget. Page 10 gives a description of the Lands Legacy Project Ordinance Duplicate Projects. The information on pages 9 and 10 is