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There are several recommendations that have not been finalized and that is why the Task Force wants to continue to meet. The first is the community center. There needs to be a memorandum of understanding of how the center is going to operate, who will pay for it, who will construct it, who will occupy it, and what type of interlocal agreement or memorandum of understanding would be between the Towns, Habitat and the Rogers Road Neighborhood Association for the operation and the program/activities to be provided. The second item is the sewer district. The managers suggested that there be a Rogers Road County Sewer District. There are a lot of details to be worked out with that. The recommendation is that the managers continue to work on this issue and participate with the Towns and OWASA to study this idea. The managers could work with the attorneys to create criteria that would enable homeowners that have lived in the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood before 1972 to connect from the sewer system free of charge and recommend a sliding scale fee structure for homeowners that moved to the neighborhood between 1972 and 2012. Attachments D and E have attorney opinions. There are many legal issues yet to be worked out over multi-jurisdictional lines. Chair of the Task Force Pam Hemminger said that the task force was determined to finish its work as soon as possible. She hopes that the County will approve starting the drafting of the Memorandum of Understanding between the County, the Towns, and Habitat. There are lots of different options still to be considered and lots of information still to be pulled together. This is why the task force wants to continue to meet. Aldermen Gist said that there have been several memos from their attorney in the past couple of weeks. She asked if he would be willing to share about the latest memo. Town of Carrboro Attorney Mike Brough said that, with respect to the community center, the issues that he raised had to do with the role of Habitat. He said that there would have to be a bidding process and it was not clear to him how there would be a bidding process. Habitat is not going to be constructing the center and it is his understanding that the County would continue to own the center. He said that there are a lot of details that remain unclear to him. The other issue that he expressed to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen is the ongoing operation and maintenance of the center. He understands that the intent of the County is that whatever funds are distributed are not considered to be ongoing. He suggested that some consideration be given to this. His recommendation is that the Board considers whether the planning should be directed solely to the sewer project as opposed to the community center. If all three bodies are operating the community center there are issues about the programs, etc. The memo is shown below: Memorandum to: Carrboro Mayor and Board of Aldermen From: Mike Brough Subject: Rogers Road Proposals Date: November 7, 2012 "County Attorney John Roberts, Chapel Hill Attorney Ralph Karpinos, and I met November 6th to discuss the managers' October 16, 2012 recommendations for constructing a Community Center to service the Rogers road area and to extend sewer lines into this area. We also discussed Mark Dorosin's October 23, 2012 letter recommending that, not only should sewer lines be extended into this area, but that homes should be connected to the sewer lines at public expense. We agreed on the conclusions set forth below in paragraphs 1-5. The