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10 1 1. Continuation of review and discussion of the Manaqer's Recommended FY 2013 - 2 18 Capital Investment Plan (CIP) 3 4 Paul Laughton from Financial Services Administration introduced this item. He said the 5 plan was to continue the discussion where the County Commissioners left off. 6 He made reference to pages 53-55 and said staff noticed some errors in the formulas 7 and made some changes. These pages are spreadsheets of the sales tax fund summary. 8 9 Water and Sewer Utilities Capital Proiects: 10 There is no additional funding for the five-year CIP for Central Efland/North Buckhorn 11 Sewer Expansion. There are grant monies and state revolving loan funds for this. 12 13 On page 59, there is $621,250 for year one and the main pump station for Efland sewer 14 system replacement. Maps are located on pages 67-69. 15 Commissioner Price asked when Mebane would be taking over and Kevin Lindley said 16 this phase is in the design stage now and it would be probably two years. 17 On Page 60, there is no additional funding for Lake Orange. This will become part of the 18 annual maintenance budget after this year. 19 On Page 61, Buckhorn EDD Phase 2 makes gravity sewer available to an additional 400 20 acres of land in the Phase 2 area. Phases 3 and 4 are funded in years 2 and 3. 21 Richmond Hills Pump Station Rehabilitation is on page 64. This was installed in 2001 to 22 serve the Richmond Hills Subdivision built by Habitat for Humanity. According to Orange Water 23 and Sewer Authority (OWASA), who perform our routine maintenance, the standard duty 24 schedule is 10 years for pumps and controls and 20 years for generators. Because our current 25 customer rates do not generate enough revenue to provide for a capital reserve, we are 26 proposing to replace the pumps and controls at the 15-year mark. As a matter of policy, sewer 27 lift stations should be limited if possible and/or operating rates or developer payment in lieu of 28 capital reserve should also be considered. This project will include replacement of the pumps 29 and electrical controls, additional of SCADA remote monitoring equipment and wet well 30 rehabilitation, if necessary. NOTE: when the connection between Efland Sewer and the City of 31 Mebane sewer system is complete, Mebane will be responsible for all utilities, including this 32 pump station. 33 Hillsborough EDD is on page 65. The funding for this is in the out years, years 6-10. 34 There is a separate map on page 68. 35 The Eno EDD is on page 66 and has construction funding in year 2. 36 Commissioner Price asked if this plan would be affected if the State moves forward that 37 cities cannot provide monies to areas outside their corporate lines. 38 Clarence Grier said this could possibly affect the plan, but since this is a county project, 39 Orange County would not be affected since it is providing the funding. 40 Chair Jacobs made reference to the Perry Hills subdivision in Mebane and said there are 41 repeated concerns about septic failures. He asked if this has come to the attention of the staff. 42 Kevin Lindley said he does not know of these issues and no one has contacted him 43 about this. 44 Chair Jacobs asked for a report back on this and Clarence Grier said he would follow up. 45 46 Solid Waste 47 This starts on page 70. 48 Commissioner Rich asked about the recycling operation and getting the towns to stick 49 with the County with the roll out carts. There was some sort of matching fund for the carts. She 50 asked if the County would lose the matching fund if the rollout carts were not done this year.