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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN <br />JOINT MEETING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 17, 2013 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 <br />SUBJECT: Report from the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A) Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood <br />Task Force Report Dated 9/17/13 <br />B) Town of Carrboro Resolution dated <br />June 18, 2013 <br />1 <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Michael Talbert, Interim County Manager, <br />245 -2308 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss the recommendations from the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood <br />Task Force. <br />BACKGROUND: Beginning in 1972 the landfill was opened by the Town of Chapel Hill and in <br />1999 Orange County assumed ownership and operation of the Eubanks Road Landfill. The <br />Historic Rogers Road Community has lived with the Orange County Landfill for 40 years. The <br />Community is geographically split by the Orange County and Carrboro. Orange County as the <br />current owner /operator of the Landfill, is taking the lead to make remediation improvement to the <br />Historic Rogers Road Community. <br />Timeline: <br />On May 17, 2011 the Board received a plan from RENA recommending actions to mitigate the <br />long and short term impacts of Orange County's Landfill and Solid Waste operations on the health, <br />safety and welfare of the Historic Rogers Road — Eubanks Road Community. <br />On January 26, 2012 the Board and the Town Boards discussed the extension of sewer service <br />and a community center for the Historic Rogers Road Community. County and Town Attorneys <br />have concluded that, utilization of Solid Waste reserves, to extend sewer service to the Historic <br />Rogers Road Community, is not consistent with North Carolina General Statutes and would <br />subject the local governments to legal challenges. Therefore, funding for either the extension of <br />sewer services and /or a community center will have to come from the County's and Towns other <br />general revenue sources. <br />On February 21, 2012 the Orange County Board of Commissioners authorized the Creation of a <br />new Historic Rogers Road Task Force to address sewer service and a community center and <br />approved the Charge The composition of the Task Force was to include two members appointed <br />by each Town (Chapel Hill and Carrboro); two members appointed from the County; and two <br />members appointed from Rogers Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA). <br />