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1 ORANGECOUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: October 21, 1997 Action Agenda Item# 10-L SUBJECT: Update of Master Recreation and Parks Master Plan- Charge to Work Group DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes_X_No BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: _Yes_X No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Chronology of Events Mary Willis - Extension 2583 Charge to Work Group List of Appointments TELEPHONE NUMBERS Commissioners' Goal/Plan of Action Hillsborough 732-8181 5/21/97 BOCC Agenda Item- Durham 688-7331 Recreation and Parks Coordination Report Mebane 227-2031 Chapel Hill 967-9251 PURPOSE: To consider a charge to the Master Recreation and Parks Plan Work Group to update and modify the Master Recreation and Parks Plan. BACKGROUND: The current Orange County Master Recreation and Parks Plan was adopted in 1989. Update of the Plan was included in the Commissioners' Goals for 1997-98. The update was initially warranted on the basis of changing condition, and new issues which had arisen since the Plan was first adopted. One specific issue which was to be addressed in the update was the joint siting of park and school facilities. A related initiative began at a September 1994 Assembly of Governments meeting at which recreation funding equity and coordination issues were discussed. Review of those issues ultimately resulted in several recommendations, including a recommendation that the Master Recreation and Parks Plan be modified to be a joint long-range capital facilities plan for Orange County,Carrboro and Chapel Hill. The attached chronology summarizes actions related to creating a Work Group specific to the Plan update as a Commissioner' goal, as well as actions related to the review initiated by the Assembly of Governments.