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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 24, 2013 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 7 -a <br />SUBJECT: Review of the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. December 6, 2012 Assembly of <br />Governments Meeting Agenda <br />Abstract - Review of the Interim <br />Recommendations from the Historic <br />Rogers Road Neighborhood Task <br />Force <br />2. Excerpt from the Draft Minutes of the <br />December 6, 2012 Assembly of <br />Governments Meeting <br />3. January 16, 2013 Email with <br />Responses from Former <br />Commissioners <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Clifton, <br />County Manager, 245 -2300 <br />Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste <br />Management Director, 968 -2885 <br />Michael Talbert, <br />Assistant County Manager, 245- <br />2308 <br />PURPOSE: To review and discuss the outcomes from the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood <br />Task Force and the future of the Task Force. <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 continued to cope with the 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 request from the Rogers Eubanks Neighborhood <br />Association (RENA) recommending actions to mitigate the long and short term impacts of <br />Orange County's Landfill and Solid Waste operations on the health, safety and welfare of the <br />Historic Rogers Road — 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 could <br />subject the local governments to legal challenges. Therefore, funding for either the extension of <br />