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3 <br />■ To continue the Task Force for six (6) months; <br />■ To have the Task Force consider the final costs, provision and installation of water and <br />sewer utility extensions preferably at no cost for members of the Historic Rogers Road <br />community; <br />■ Consider options to address gentrification; <br />■ Consider Chapel Hill's most recent Small Area Plan; <br />■ Consider funding options, including the Greene Tract. <br />5. Specify that the Task Force provide a report to the Board of County Commissioners no later <br />than the Board's September 17th meeting <br />Subsequent Local Government Actions: <br />1. On April 9, 2013 the Board of County Commissioners was presented the schematic <br />design of the Rogers Road Community Center and authorized the manager to award the <br />bid for construction in an amount not to exceed $650,000. The project was bid in August, <br />2013. The Town of Chapel Hill has expedited the site plan review, permitting and other <br />associated processes for the project as well as waived all associated Town fees related to <br />those processes, normally estimated to be $25, 000. <br />2. On September 18, 2012 the Town of Carrboro approved the Town's intention to <br />contribute not more than $900, 000 for the Town's 14% portion of the $650, 000 Community <br />Center and estimated $5.8 million cost of the Sewer Project. <br />On June 18, 2013 the Carrboro Board of Aldermen approved a Resolution (Attachment 2) <br />to Provide Comment on Alternatives Discussed by the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood <br />Task Force. The Town has also appropriated $450,000 (112 of the $900,000 the Town has <br />committed to Rogers Road) in the Fiscal 201312014, for both a New Community Center and <br />Sewer Improvements. <br />3. The Town of Chapel Hill appropriated $90,549 and the Town of Carrboro appropriated <br />$29,524 in the Fiscal 201312014, for a New Rogers Road Community Center. <br />4. On June 24, 2013 the Chapel Hill Town Council voted to initiate a process with the County <br />to extend the Town's extraterritorial jurisdiction into the area within a portion of the Historic <br />Rogers Road Neighborhood within Orange County. The Council also asked that the <br />Manager continue discussion of a possible Utility District with local jurisdictions. <br />RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />September 17, 2013 <br />1. That that the Cost associated with the Community Center and Sewer Improvements will be <br />shared 14% Carrboro, 43% Chapel Hill and 43% Orange County. <br />