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Neighborhood Community Center. The St Paul's AME Church is working with the Chapel Hill Preservation Society to save the structure. 2. That the Managers recommend to the Task Force a contract between Habitat, Orange County, the Town of Carrboro, and the Town of Chapel Hill for the construction of a new Rogers Road Community Center with a budget not to exceed $700,000 that is in compliance with North Carolina public bidding requirements and is approved by County and Towns Attorneys. 3. That the County creates long-term agreements, as need, with Habitat and the Rogers Eubanks Neighborhood Association. The agreement(s) shall provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a new Rogers Road Neighborhood Community Center. Additional agreements, if needed, shall provide for services, programs & activities to be provided in the Center. All agreements will be reviewed and approved by County Attorney. County Sewer District: 1. That the Managers explore the creation of a County Sewer District for all property owners in the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood that are not currently served by a municipal sewer system and would benefit from the installation of sewer infrastructure to serve the Rogers Road Neighborhood. a. That the towns participate with the possible creation of a County Sewer District, which could overlap town boundaries, by resolution to such inclusion. b. That a County Sewer District would make special assessments against benefited property within the district to cover the costs of constructing, extending or improving sewage disposal system. The basis of any special assessment would be determined at a later date after investigating development potential and the number of possible dwelling units. A special assessment would share the costs of the sewer system with current benefited property (homeowners) and undeveloped land for future development. c. That the Managers 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 move to the Neighborhood between 1972 and 2012. Commissioner Hemminger made reference to recommendation #1 and said that the representation shall remain the same parties and not necessarily the same people. She said that there had been a neighborhood meeting where individuals came to the meeting and people went door to door if people were interested in sewer connections, and there was interest. Commissioner Foushee said that she is pleased that the Board of County Commissioners allowed her to serve on this task force and that she is proud that this Board stepped up and did the best they could for this community. She said that if the Board wanted her to stay and work for the next 6 months then she would. Commissioner Hemminger said that she would also be willing to stay and work with this task force if needed. Commissioner McKee made a motion to continue the appointments of Commissioner Foushee and Commissioner Hemminger on this task force. Commissioner Hemminger said that the composition would have to be changed in order to do this. Commissioner McKee withdrew his motion.