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15. the City of Mebane desires to secure the right of annexation to property to <br />which it provides municipal utility service and needs to control by virtue of <br />ownership the use, operation, maintenance, rate and fee structure, etc., of <br />the utility infrastructure and service it provides; and <br />16. accordingly, if the City is to provide water and wastewater service to the <br />EDD and The Buckhorn Road community, it will assume ownership of the <br />completed infrastructure and provide the operation and maintenance of <br />the systems. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, does hereby <br />resolve to: <br />1. Approve the scope of utility planning, development and design work as generally <br />outlined in ATTACHMENT "A" with the addition of cost estimates, as appropriate; <br />and <br />2. Direct County staff to move forward with the process of soliciting proposals for utility <br />design consultants and selecting a design consultant on the basis of those <br />proposals; and <br />3. Direct County staff to move forward with the process of developing, negotiating and <br />submitting for Board approval the necessary interlocal utility extension, land use and <br />annexation agreements with the City of Mebane; and <br />4. Staff to provide a report and Plan to Board of County Commissioners for comment; <br />and <br />5. Direct the County staff to move forward with developing financing strategies such as <br />utility assessments or acquiring additional grant funding for utility extension costs <br />not addressed by funds available from the EPA grant or Efland Sewer Bond; and <br />6. Direct the County staff to undertake a public education campaign to advise citizens <br />and property owners who will benefit from the availability of the expansion of utility <br />service in the Efland-Cheeks community about what costs of that expansion that <br />they may be required to bear. <br />This, the 1st day of October, 2003. <br />.`~,A, <br />Margaret Brown, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />