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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN <br />JOINT MEETING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 11, 2012 <br />SUBJECT: Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Managers' Recommendations to the <br />Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood <br />Task Force dated September 28,2012 <br />"Carrboro" Cost Sharing Option <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5 <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Clifton, County Manager, 245- <br />2306 <br />Michael Talbert, Assistant County <br />Manager, 245 -2308 <br />PURPOSE: To receive an update on the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood issues and for <br />the governing boards of Orange County and the Town of Carrboro to discuss as necessary. <br />BACKGROUND: In 1972 the landfill was opened by the Town of Chapel Hill and in 1999 <br />Orange County assumed ownership and operation of the Orange County Landfill on Eubanks <br />Road. The Historic Rogers Road Community has lived with the Orange County Landfill for 40 <br />years. <br />On May 17, 2011 the Board of Commissioners received a plan from Rogers- Eubanks <br />Neighborhood Association (RENA) recommending actions to mitigate the long and short term <br />impacts of Orange County's Landfill and Solid Waste operations on the health, safety and <br />welfare of the Historic Rogers Road — Eubanks Road community. <br />On January 26, 2012 the Board of Commissioners and the Town Boards discussed the <br />extension of sewer service and a community center for the Historic Rogers Road Community. <br />County and Town Attorneys have concluded that utilization of Solid Waste reserves to extend <br />sewer service to the Historic Rogers Road Community is not consistent with North Carolina <br />General Statutes and would subject the local governments to legal challenges. Therefore, <br />funding for either the extension of sewer services and /or a community center will have to come <br />from the County's and Towns' other general 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 <br />community center. <br />On September 6, 2012 the Board of County Commissioners reviewed the Interim Report from <br />the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force and approved the following motion: <br />