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n <br />Managers Recommendations to <br />Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force <br />September 28, 2012 <br />On August 22, 2012 the Task Force approved the following recommendation: <br />The Task Force recommends that the County and Town Managers collectively <br />discuss and formulate a fair and equitable cost sharing recommendation for the <br />Task Force to consider. Options 2 & 4 are no longer being considered by the <br />Task Force, therefore the recommendation should be based on options 1, 3, and <br />/or 5. The cost sharing recommendation will be reviewed by the Task Force and <br />could be applied to funding Sewer Infrastructure and a Community Center. <br />On September 28, 2012 the County and Town Managers met and developed the <br />following recommendations: <br />1. That the Task Force supports a new Rogers Road Neighborhood Community <br />Center to be constructed on the 2 lots in the Phoenix Place subdivision, a site <br />graciously provided Habitat for Humanity. <br />a. The Board of County Commissioners may agree to have the County advance <br />funding for a Community Center of up to $500,000. <br />b. Funding will begin in Fiscal 2013/14 at the same rate the County and Towns <br />are now funding to purchase the Greene Tract from the Orange County Solid <br />Waste Fund. This will commit the County and the Towns to the same costs <br />sharing percentages as outlined in the 1972 Landfill Agreement ($90,549 <br />Orange County, $90,549 Town of Chapel Hill and $29,524 Town of Carrboro). <br />c. Investigate a contractual agreement with Habitat for Humanity to construct a <br />Rogers Road Neighborhood Community Center that would serve the <br />residents of the Rogers Road Neighborhood. The center would be owned by <br />Habitat and leased to Rogers Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) for <br />$1 per year. <br />d. That the details of development of the Community Center will be referred <br />back to the Managers for coordination and a report to the Task Force and /or <br />the governing bodies <br />2. The County and the Town of Chapel Hill recommend that Orange County will <br />petition the Town of Chapel Hill to annex all County owned property in the <br />Rogers Road Neighborhood, including the jointly owned Greene Tract and the 2 <br />lots in the Phoenix Place subdivision, the site graciously provided Habitat for <br />Humanity as requested by Habitat for Humanity. The Town of Chapel Hill will act <br />in a timely manner to annex the property petitioned. <br />