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23 1 Chair Jacobs said the Board wanted to talk about the outcomes and only one of them is 2 the community center. He made reference to page 28, which is the draft recommendation to 3 the Assembly of Governments from the task force, which specifically said that the costs would 4 be shared between the County and the towns to build a community center. He said the County 5 Commissioners can still move forward and make a request to towns to find a way to make the 6 funding happen, but the County can still move forward. 7 Commissioner Price said when she made a motion to move forward with the community 8 center, it was to make sure this got done and not to hold things up. 9 Commissioner Rich said she wanted to defend Chapel Hill Town Council. All Town 10 Council members agreed to do this community center. She said Chapel Hill is not saying that it 11 does not want to fund this. The Managers need to get together and create the interlocal 12 agreement and move forward. She believes that the towns are already committed to this. 13 Commissioner Dorosin said sewer has always been the core issue facing the community 14 along with water and the task force did not start talking about sewer until the end of the last six 15 months. He said the task force has not resolved this issue and there is no funding model in 16 place. He said this conversation needs to continue to happen and this is the critical issue. He 17 thinks the task force needs to continue to resolve this issue of the sewer. 18 Commissioner Gordon said that the community center is ready to go, and the task force 19 may need to stay together for the sewer issue. 20 Commissioner Rich said at all of the task force meetings they did talk about sewer 21 issues and they did go a lot further than has been indicated here tonight. She said many 22 elected officials may not be aware of how far these discussions have gone. She said as 23 Commissioners that they need more information on a sewer authority and they would need to 24 get more information from OWASA. 25 Chair Jacobs said there is a consensus about going forward with the community center 26 and he said they can entertain a motion to go ahead with a community center. The motion is to 27 continue the task force. He suggested talking about the motion, which is to continue the task 28 force, if the community center has been addressed. 29 Commissioner Price said with the task force, at least they are keeping the community in 30 the dialogue. 31 Commissioner Dorosin made a friendly amendment to the motion to continue the task 32 force with the charge as follows: 1) finalizing the cost and installation of sewer and water 33 utilities in the community; 2) analyzing options to prevent gentrification and consider the Chapel 34 Hill SAP; 3) considering funding options related to Greene tract; and 4) monitoring the progress 35 of construction and development of the community center and agreements related thereto. He 36 would like to add to the sewer charge that the primary goal be to provide the sewer at no cost to 37 the residents of the community. 38 Commissioner Price accepted the friendly amendment. Commissioner Dorosin 39 seconded. 40 Commissioner McKee said he cannot support this motion because of gentrification. He 41 said that the day the sewer is built, development will happen. To try to prevent the development 42 impinges on the rights of the property owners. 43 Commissioner Pelissier said she has concerns about gentrification and this is a vague 44 term. She said that it would be better to look at the Small Area Plan (SAP). 45 Commissioner Gordon said that the motion is getting more complex, and it would better 46 to vote the motion up or down now. 47 Commissioner McKee said this is getting more convoluted and the focus should be on 48 the community center and then what to do with the task force and the charge. 49