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Kenny Keel said that considering the level of water usage now and the fact that there is a full reservoir, he does not think they will have to ga into restrictions this year. Commissioner Halkiotis asked about gallons per day usage and Kenny Keel said 1.3 million gallons a day. They can treat and deliver 3 million gallons per day. Commissioner Gering said that even with the west fork of the Eno being full, the water restriction ordinances far the County are based only on the level of water in this fork. He said that there might be an artificial restriction. Chair Jacobs said that in Paul Thame's memo there is mention about the unfairness. They run Lake Orange down so that it is almost dry. In some ways that is fair to Hillsborough, and then Hillsborough maintains the levels in Lake Orange and therefore Orange-Alamance has the opportunity to not be in restriction for a longer period of time. On the other hand, the people who live out at Lake Orange need assurance that there is going to be a minimum amount of water there. They need to comb through to see how this all will work. Commissioner Halkiotis said that he asked about gallons per day far a reason. He said that when he came to graduate school back in 1967 at Chapel Hill, this is what the water usage use was back then. Now OWASA is putting out 13 million gallons a day. He said that he got scared last summer when he heard about Guilford County making plans to start moving people from nursing homes because the water was not there. He hopes that we continue to conserve water. b. Fairview ParklProposed TawnlCounty Land Swap (Hillsborough & Orange County ERCD) Chair Jacobs said that they met on Friday about this park and they have a draft plan. The Mayor, Commissioner Lowen, and Chair Jacobs were there as well as staff and they talked about how to swap land for the Town to have their own Public Works facility and to use non- landfilled property for active recreation purposes. They are trying to balance a commitment to provide facilities to the Fairview community and for the larger Hillsborough community, realizing that there are some severe site constraints. They have talked about phasing with this park. He pointed out some areas of the park on a map. Mayor Phelps said that he thought it was a productive meeting and everyone is on the same page. He has a few concerns and he would like for the Town Board to talk about it before they proceed anymore. One of the concerns is that they would not want to have their Public Works facility divided by a road. If it works out, they might not have to do an acre for acre swap. Dometric Potts said that he got this map today and that he and Wilbert McAdoo would get together and discuss the current configuration. Dave Stancil said that this map was created out of a charette the staff had. The map is just a first cut at things. Commissioner Gering asked if surveys of the community have been completed about the kinds of recreational uses they would like to have. Dave Stancil said that in October of last year there was a draft memorandum of agreement between the Town and the County that would spell out the process for proceeding with the park. This would be the mechanism for setting up the process.