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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 5, 2000 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: County Appropriation for Southern Community Park Design <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Budget PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Capital Project Ordinance Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br /> 6/20/00 Chapel Hill Town Manager Letter Donna Dean, ext 2151 <br /> 6/21/00 Chapel Hill Mayor Letter TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider an additional appropriation to assist the Town of Chapel Hill in <br /> funding the engagement of design consultants for the development of a Southern Community <br /> Park concept plan; and to adopt a capital project ordinance appropriating funds for the Southern <br /> Community Park project. <br /> BACKGROUND: The November 1997 park bonds approved by Orange County voters <br /> included $1 million earmarked to assist the Town of Chapel Hill in developing the Southern <br /> Community Park that will be constructed near US 15-501 South and Scroggs Elementary School <br /> in the Southern Village. At their June 6, 2000 meeting, the Board of Commissioners approved <br /> the appropriation of$50,000 in County park bond funds to assist the Town of Chapel Hill in <br /> paying for the development of a concept plan for the Southern Community Park <br /> The County has since received a clarifying letter from Mayor Waldorf that the Town would like to <br /> rely on $100,000 of County bond money for the concept plan development and preparation of <br /> working drawings. Funds are expected to be needed by the Town sometime in fall 2000, after a <br /> design consultant has been solicited and hired by the Town. The Town Manager has provided <br /> a written update that is attached for the Board's information regarding work accomplished and <br /> planned at both the Southern Community Park and the Homestead Community Park near <br /> Airport Road. <br /> In 1998, the Board had also approved the appropriation of$105,000 in park bonds for the <br /> installation of lighting, bleachers, and irrigation at the Scroggs Elementary playing field, use of <br /> which is shared by the Town of Chapel Hill and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Those <br /> project elements have already been accomplished during the construction of Scroggs <br /> Elementary, and the Town of Chapel Hill has requested reimbursement. Approval of the <br /> attached capital project ordinance would authorize the County Finance Director to disburse <br /> those reimbursement funds and money for the concept plan and drawings, as needed by the <br /> Town. <br />