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1 <br /> ORD-2012-046 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 16, 2012 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 7-b <br /> SUBJECT: Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Community Center and Budget <br /> Amendment#3-B <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. Managers' Recommendations to Frank Clifton, County Manager, 245- <br /> the Historic Rogers Road 2306 <br /> Neighborhood Task Force dated Michael Talbert, Assistant County <br /> September 28,2012 Manager, 245-2308 <br /> PURPOSE: To establish a County Capital Project for the construction of a Rogers Road <br /> Neighborhood Community Center and approve Budget Amendment#3-B. <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 />