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Commissioner Yuhasz said that there is an interlocal agreement work group that consists of him, Mayor Kleinschmidt, Mayor Chilton, and Brian Lowen. They have met a couple of times to talk about this, and the conclusion is that it is premature to talk about the specifics of the new interlocal agreement. He thinks that the specifics of the agreement are going to have to wait until results of the Chapel Hill study are available. 4. Historic Roqers Road Communitv Michael Talbert summarized this information as shown below: a) Accomplishments BACKGROUND: Beginning in 1972 the landfill was opened by the Town of Chapel Hill and in 1999 Orange County assumed ownership and operation of the Eubanks Road Landfill. The Historic Rogers Road Community has lived with the Orange County Landfill for 40 years. The Community is geographically split by the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Orange County as the current owner/operator of the Landfill, is taking the lead to make remediation improvement to the Historic Rogers Road Community. On May 17, 2011 the Board received a plan from RENA (Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association) recommending actions to mitigate the long and short term impacts of Orange County's Landfill and Solid Was~e operations on the health, safety and welfare of the Historic Rogers Road - Eubanks Road G~o' mmunity. On October 4, 2011 the Board ``reviewed a variety of possible public improvements to the Historic Rogers Road Community: A number of local government initiatives have been implemented to improve the quality of life in the Rogers Road Community and they are as follows: 1. The Solid Waste fund paid $650,000 to extend public water service by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) to the Rogers Road area. 2. Solid Waste installed gas flares to reduce odors. 3. Town of Chapel Hill initiated bus service on Rogers Road. 4. Solid Waste has initiated a no-fault well policy to deal with failing drinking water wells remaining in the adjoining neighborhoods. 5. The Board of County Commissioners approved the appropriation of $750,000 from the Solid Waste Fund Balance to Establish a Rogers Road Remediation Reserve Fund. 6. On July 1, 2011 the Board of County Commissioners established a$5.00 tipping fee surcharge and a plan to incrementally increase the tipping fee each fiscal year by a minimum $2 per ton as long and the landfill is operational to fund the Rogers Road Remediation Reserve Fund. 7. The Landfill Gas to Energy Project commenced operations on January 6, 2012 and will likely have an immediate and noticeable impact on the odor created by the operation of the landfill. The project will further provide a long-term renewable energy source to UNC, reducing dependence on increasingly expensive fossil fuels, and reduce carbon emissions. On October 4, the Board authorized the staff to proceed with a'one-time' effort to clean-up illegal dump site within three-fourths of one mile of the landfill boundary, at no cost to the individual property owners. This process has started, but due to the complicated legal issues