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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 6, 2012 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 7-a <br /> SUBJECT: Review of the Interim Report from the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood <br /> Task Force <br /> DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Frank Clifton, <br /> Force Interim Report County Manager, 245-2300 <br /> Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste <br /> Management Director, 968-2885 <br /> Michael Talbert, <br /> Assistant County Manager, 245-2308 <br /> PURPOSE: To review the Interim Report from the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task <br /> Force dated August 22, 2012. <br /> BACKGROUND: Beginning in 1972 the landfill was opened by the Town of Chapel Hill and in <br /> 1999 Orange County assumed ownership and operation of the Eubanks Road Landfill. The <br /> Historic Rogers Road Community has lived with the Orange County Landfill for 40 years. The <br /> Community is geographically split by the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Orange County as <br /> the current owner/operator of the Landfill is taking the lead to make remediation improvement to <br /> the Historic Rogers Road Community. <br /> On May 17, 2011 the Board received a plan from the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association <br /> (RENA) recommending actions to mitigate the long and short term impacts of Orange County's <br /> Landfill and Solid Waste operations on the health, safety and welfare of the Historic Rogers Road <br /> — Eubanks Road Community. <br /> On January 26, 2012 the Board and the Town Boards discussed the extension of sewer service <br /> and a community center for the Historic Rogers Road Community. County and Town Attorneys <br /> have concluded that utilization of Solid Waste reserves to extend sewer service to the Historic <br /> Rogers Road Community is not consistent with North Carolina General Statutes and would subject <br /> the local governments to legal challenges. Therefore, funding for either the extension of sewer <br /> services and/or a community center will have to come from the County's and Towns' other general <br /> revenue sources. <br /> On February 21, 2012 the Orange County Board of Commissioners authorized the creation of a <br /> new Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force to address sewer service and a community <br /> center and approved the Task Force's charge. The composition of the Task Force was to include <br /> two members appointed by each Town (Chapel Hill and Carrboro); two members appointed from <br />