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She made reference to water reuse and said that it could not happen without the upgrades that are going to take place at the Mason Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant. This is the most expensive, largest project ever undertaken by OWASA. The project will cost $45 million. This is an upgrade and an expansion. The upgrade will reduce the amount of nutrients discharged and will also involve ultraviolet disinfection. The capacity will increase from 12 million gallons per day to 14.5 million gallons per day. The construction will begin next year far completion by 2006-2007. She described water reuse in detail. Reuse is commonly used for irrigation, cooling towers, boiler water, industrial process, toilet flushing, etc. OWASA would like to pursue water reuse because it saves the Cane Creek and University Lake water supplies for human consumption. Reuse would also provide a supply less vulnerable to droughts. OWASA and the University decided to jointly fund a study to look at the costs and benefits of water reuse. She then described the potential demand of water reuse at the University. The main demand far water reuse at the University is chiller facility cooling towers. The improvements needed to accommodate the water reuse include a new reuse pumping station at the Mason Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant and up to 25,000 feet of new reclaimed water distribution pipes. Regarding the costs, State and federal funding assistance will be pursued. The infrastructure will cost about $10-13 million. In the end, the cost of reclaimed water is expected to be less than drinking water. OWASA would like the Board of County Commissioners to partner in this project with OWASA, the University, the Town of Chapel Hill, and the Town of Carrboro to help obtain funding for this project. They are not going to ask the County for money, just for assistance in obtaining the funds. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about the $10-13 million and how much would come from the federal government. Bernadette Pelissier said that they would have to seek out the potential funding sources and how much they could get. They have no idea at this time. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he is thrilled with this possibility. Commissioner Jacobs said that when the University was approached about these years ago under another Chancellor who is noted far his cooperation with local government, they were interested. He is glad to see that the current administration, which gets bad press, has been following through on some sustainability goals. He is glad that OWASA is being proactive about the Jordan Lake nutrient discharges. Also, he said that he got an email from the Haw River Assembly who is concerned that other people interested in water quality at Jordan Lake have not been participating in some meetings by the State. He asked if OWASA had been participating in those. He would like to be kept abreast of this process. Bernadette Pelissier said that OWASA participates very proactively in everything that's happening relating to sustainability. b. Process for Addressina Humane Society of the United States Report on Animal Sheltering The Board considered a central grouping of major issues contained within the Humane Society of the United States {HSUS) Report on Animal Sheltering, and the possible creation of a representative task force to undertake a thorough review of the Report and submit its recommendations to the BOCC by the first BOCC meeting in January 2004. Jahn Link said that the HSUS report is rich in a number of recommendations and because of the magnitude of the information and the importance of the topic, the Board of County Commissioners needs to decide what medium they want to address these recommendations. The staff has grouped together some issues as they see them. Gwen Harvey explained how staff chose a work group and how they identified common groupings of principal issues. One of the hallmarks of the HSUS report is for a