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Chair Jacobs suggested that for guiding principles, that it says, "The County shall be compensated for uses of the property far "profit" purposes. Recreation and Parks Director Lori Taft said that there would be same concern about the future with groups wanting to use these spaces for recreational purposes for profit rather than agriculture. Commissioner Gordon said that the guiding principles are far the master plan process and they need them also for the operations of the property. Chair Jacobs suggested that they start developing this list of guiding principles for operations of the property. Public Comment Spence Dickenson pointed out Blackwood Farm on a map. He said that a lot of this area was at one time in one farm. He said that looking at a larger picture of what was there is important before things get divided back down into ten-acre farms. He said that he is involved with a group called HUB Sustainability Network, which is looking at what other things could be done here to preserve and provide educational programs, more than just what the County can do. He said that there are opportunities to work with the local schools to educate children about farms. He would like to look at how this large area can be used and find out what other groups out there could be involved. He distributed a copy of his statement. Chair Jacobs suggested that Spence Dickenson apply to be an the planning group for the park. Dave Stancil said that in this particular case, given the nature of the property, it would be appropriate to look at the role agriculture could play as part of the park. There are parks that are living farms. Spence Dickenson said that he talked with Bob Strayhorn about growing demonstration projects and he agreed with starting to prepare this land for demonstration projects. The Board agreed to add this to the consent agenda on March 21St and start advertising for participants of the task force. 4. Interlocal Agreement between the Town of Hillsborough and Orange County for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Phase II Services Craig Benedict said that Hillsborough is now subject to the NPDES Phase II, and it was going to hire someone on its staff to operate this program. Orange County Erosion Control presently does a good portion of similar work far Hillsborough at this time. Orange County can do this service as an expansion to the storm water and erosion control regulations to fulfill the obligations of Hillsborough. This will not be developer funded, but funded from Hillsborough. Hillsborough is now subject to it because it has a storm water system within its operation. Erosion Control will be doing public education and outreach on storm water projects and will evaluate all projects before and after construction. Hillsborough will pay Orange County in the first year $37,000, which will go into a fund that will make the cost of the Erasion Control division less from the County's general fund. Next year Hillsborough will pay the County $57,000 for the services. If the County ever has to hire a new person to run the program, Hillsborough would have to fund it completely. Commissioner Halkiotis verified that the County would be fully compensated far all costs (vehicles, special equipment, operating costs, materials, etc.). He said that he has been impressed by the Inspections staff. He gave an example of Home Depot and said that it was about $37,000 in County costs to do all of the inspections for this building and the County recovered $34-35,000 in fees. He encouraged Craig Benedict to think high on these fees. Commissioner Gordon said that this is a win-win situation and she wants to make sure all costs are covered.