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APPROVED 6/19/2001 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION MARCH 29, 2001 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a work session on Thursday, March 29, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Stephen H. Halkiatis and Commissioners Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon and Barry Jacobs COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Manager Rod Visser and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. 1. EFLAND SEWER SERVICE AREA POLICY Planning Director Craig Benedict presented a base map of the Efland area. He said that the County Attorney Geoffrey Gledhill would go into the history of the Efland sewer project, County Engineer Paul Thames would talk about the bond issue, and he would finish with existing policy implications and how it affects the subdivision process. Craig Benedict explained the map of the Efland area. Geoffrey Gledhill said that the plan for the Efland sewer system arose because of some bad soils in the Efland area. The County employed some engineers, particularly the John McAdams Company, which reported how to provide public water and sewer to the Efland area. The County staff worked with the community to develop some agreements with members of the Efland community that were mostly in the Phase One area. The bottom line is that enough people made a written commitment to receive public sewer to make the project viable. Sometime thereafter, the County employed another engineer to take another look at the system boundaries and the system design. This report indicated that the County would not have enough money to build all of Phase One. Bids were taken on the westernmost portion of Phase One and Phase Twa. The school and most of the failing septic systems are located in the western portion. Craig Benedict stated that the adopted plan at this point is Phases One and Two and the additional system improvements. Geoffrey Gledhill said that three expansions to the boundary of the system have been approved. The expansions include the Hancor manufacturing facility, the Barber and Ross facility, and the Richmond Hills subdivision. Craig Benedict continued explaining the map of the Efland sewer service area. He said that the majority of the Orange-Alamance water system is within Orange County's transition areas, specifically the ten-year transition area. Paul Thames spoke about the 1997 bond project. The proposed project consists primarily of the easternmost part of Phase One and Phase Two. The bond area lies primarily in the transition areas and out of the water quality critical area. The project involves gravity sewer collectors. The plan is to relocate the existing main pump station from the intersection of McGowan Creek and Efland-Cedar Grove Road to the east to Brookhallow Road and McGowan Creek. There is another pump station on the Crabtree Mobile Home Park property that drains the eastern end of the project. The bond area project would serve almost all of the remaining residents that signed up for sewer service in the 1985 customer drive. There are about ten customers that would not be served by this project. Four of the homes are in the water quality critical area. If the project were started now, the design of the project