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APPROVED 12!612004 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION OCTOBER 21, 2004 7:30 pm The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Work Session on Thursday, October 21, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Margaret Brown, Alice M. Gordan, and Stephen Halkiotis COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Moses Carey, Jr. COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill, Sean Borhanian COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Jahn M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers Rod Visser and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (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 Craig Benedict said that he distributed a memo in reference to the proposed Oakdale Village and would like for that to be added to the agenda. Commissioner Brown said that today she attended a subcommittee meeting of the Intergovernmental Parks Warkgroup and they discussed the expenditure of funds to transfer $75,000 to Chapel Hill for the greenway system-engineering piece. There are four engineering firms that are interested. The choice will be made at the next meeting. This is far the greenway from Airport Road to Umstead Road. 1a. Triangle SportsPlex John Link said that there are two major projects that the Board of Commissioners will need to make a decision on within the course of the next few months. One is locating and planning the Central Orange County Senior Center. The other is the Triangle 5portsplex. The County's obligation in terms of appropriating funding will end this fiscal year unless the Board chooses to re-engage in some cooperative agreement after March. In June, the staff briefly presented the concept of haw the senior center and the Spartsplex could be co-located and that there would be synergy between the two projects. Since that time, they have been working with Jeff Thompson and Whit Morrow. The staff would like to present this as a possibility. If the Board would like to move forward with the concept, then the staff could come back with a more detailed plan in December. Rod Visser said that the Board's direction in June was to have the staff to continue to flesh out the proposal. The staff has worked on it, specifically as it relates to regulatory issues and the Town of Hillsborough (i.e., impervious surface, parking, etc.). The good news is that they have not run into anything that would hinder this project. The concept is that there may be synergies or cost savings associated with the County pursuing the co-location of the Sportsplex and the senior center. The agreement with the Sportsplex, which the County has been in for ten years, is that the County pays the Sportsplex $400,00 a year, and in return the Sportsplex makes sure that the amenities are made available to citizens of Orange County at a reasonable cost. There are some indications that there may be cost savings with the co-location concept.