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11 1 sewer service to the Historic Rogers Road Community is not consistent with North Carolina 2 General Statutes and would subject the local governments to legal challenges. Therefore, 3 funding for either the extension of sewer services and/or a community center will have to come 4 from the County's and Towns' other general revenue sources. 5 On February 21, 2012 the Orange County Board of Commissioners authorized the 6 creation of a new Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force to address sewer service 7 and a community center. 8 On September 6, 2012 the Board of County Commissioners reviewed the Interim Report 9 from the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force and approved the following motion: 10 11 The motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger and seconded by Commissioner 12 Yuhasz, for intent to: 13 • move forward with a new"green" community center; 14 • to ask the Manager to find $380,000 more to move into the fund already 15 established with $120,000; 16 • to work with RENA and Habitat for Humanity on the design and implementation 17 of this community center; 18 • to ask the towns to contribute computers, supplies, permitting costs, connection 19 costs and the first 12 months of utilities towards this project; 20 • to ask the towns to expedite the permitting process; and 21 • to be able to start immediately to bring this project back 22 23 On October 3, 2012 the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force met and 24 discussed the attached recommendations from the County and Town Managers. Based on the 25 draft Meeting Summary the Task Force reinforced support for both the Community Center and 26 Sewer in the Historic Rogers Road Community, by the recommending the following: 27 28 1. That the Managers meet and report back to the Task Force at the October 24, 2012 29 meeting, specifically to study how the local governments can cost-share sewer 30 improvements and a community center. 31 2. That the Managers consider the attached "Carrboro" cost sharing option. 32 3. That the Task Force move forward with the Community Center and continue discussions as 33 to how sewer is implemented. 34 35 The Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force is scheduled to present its final 36 report to the Assembly of Governments on December 6, 2012. 37 38 Commissioner Hemminger made reference to the idea of moving the historic Hogan 39 House and said that the church will move the property and save it to be restored on its own 40 property. 41 Mayor Chilton said that the Town of Carrboro is not an entitlement fund community but 42 the Town of Chapel Hill is. He thinks that this is worthy of being looked into further. 43 Commissioner Hemminger said that there are certain ratios and this neighborhood did 44 not meet the ratios. 45 Mayor Chilton said that extending sewer lines to low-income neighborhoods is 46 something that CDBG money does qualify for, generally speaking. 47 Michael Talbert said that none of this area is within the town limits of Chapel Hill, it is all 48 under the ETJ therefore it would not qualify for entitlement money. Regarding funding for 49 sewer, there is not massive failure of all of the systems out there and most of the homeowners 50 have functional septic systems.