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Paul Thames referred to the foldout map with the abstract. He said that the area that they were talking about taking out of the project if they go to a non-grant funded pracess, is the area along Buckhorn Road, the section between I-85 and the railroad. The entirety of the project was the northern Buckhorn section, the People for Progress area, the school, the EDD, and central Efland (Phase I-B}. The project was split by taking out central Efland to accelerate the school, and now they are reconfiguring the grant to pay for the school outside the grant pracess and make the grant project be the north Buckhorn and central Efland area. This preserves the portion of the grant that addresses environmental justice. The environmental justice portion of the grant, People for Progress, has to stay with the grant. Chair Jacobs asked Planning Director Craig Benedict if there was any other significant change in the map besides the fact that the proposed McGowan Creek subdivision is different. Craig Benedict said that the two projects that have been built recently are Ashwick and Richmond Hills subdivisions. These are in the existing public water and sewer. The proposed McGowan Creek subdivision is now an exempt subdivision without public water and sewer. Commissioner Gordon asked about the costs of each of the portions. Paul Thames said that the sewer part for the Buckhorn EDD1Gravely Hill Middle School portion is approximately $1 million and the sewer part for the other North Buckhorn Road portion is $425,000. The cost of sewer for the third portion for Central Efland is approximately $2 million. Chair Jacobs verified that central Efland is the fulfillment of the bond issue from 1997. Chair Jacobs asked how the timeline would work and how much work has been done and haw much of a delay there would be far the people an Buckhorn Road because of the switch. Paul Thames said that his belief is that by taking this part out they are prolonging the time that the People for Progress get sewer by 2-3 months. Commissioner Gordon would like to have assurances that changing will not affect the grant because the original project had same geographical continuity. Chair Jacobs agreed and said that they need to be sure that the grant will not be affected before they take a step. John Link said that is why they need items in writing and they have alerted Congressman Price's office. Commissioner Halkiotis asked for a list of what is needed in writing, by what agency, and the timeline. The list is as follows: - Assurance from Construction Loans and Grants that they can reconfigure the pracess Assurance that the reconfiguration will work from Construction Loans and Grants Agreement between Orange County and Mebane on how to fund the improvements Assurance that the reconfigured Buckhorn RoadlCentral Efland project still qualifies for the federal grant. Paul Thames said that he would talk with Bobby Blawe, the Section Chief of Construction Loans and Grants, tomorrow morning. Chair Jacobs suggested having the answers by the meeting of February 21, 2006. Paul Thames went through the timeline on page 6 of agenda item 4.