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1 <br /> ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 17. 1996 <br /> Agenda Abstract <br /> Item# <br /> SUBJECT: COMPLETION OF NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION FOR THE CEDAR <br /> GROVE RURAL HISTORIC DISTRICT: REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _X_No <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes—_2L_No <br /> ATTACHI TENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Donald R. Belk <br /> (1)Draft Request for Proposals Preservation Planner X2594 <br /> (2)Excerpt from Minutes of HPC Meeting, 7-24-96 <br /> (3)Information Mailed to Cedar Grove Property Owners, 10-11-96 PHONE NUMBERS: <br /> (4)Follow-up Mailing to Cedar Grove Property Owners, 10-30-96 Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> (5)Petitions from Eno Presbyterian&Cedar Grove Methodist Church Mebane 227-2031 <br /> (6)Staff Report: Cedar Grove National Register Nomination Durham 688-7331 <br /> Chapel Hill 967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a Request for Proposals, to be used in evaluating consultants' qualifications to <br /> complete the nomination of the Cedar Grove crossroads area to the National Register of <br /> Historic Places. (The draft RFP is provided as Attachment#1). <br /> BACKGROUND: The Historic Preservation Commission, at their meeting of July 24, 1996, voted to <br /> approve the attached Request for Proposals to select a qualified consultant to complete the <br /> National Register nomination for the Cedar Grove crossroads area (see Attachment #2). <br /> Nomination of Cedar Grove crossroads area as a National Register Historic District was <br /> identified as one of the priority preservation goals in the Historic Preservation Element, or <br /> Preservation Plan, which was adopted by the BOCC on April 1, 1996. Establishment of <br /> the Cedar Grove Historic District was adopted as a BOCC goal on May 14, 1996. <br /> Also in May, 1996, the Historic Preservation Commission asked the Board of County <br /> Commissioners to include $11,180 in the FY1996-97 budget to fund completion of the <br /> Cedar Grove National Register Nomination. This request was made after the County was <br /> unsuccessful in obtaining grant funding from the Certified Local Government program <br /> through the State Historic Preservation Office. Furthermore, this was the first time that a <br /> funding request for a historic preservation project did not include these grant funds. <br /> Following Board discussion of the upcoming budget, the Planning Department requested <br /> line item transfers from savings in other departmental accounts to fiend the project. The <br /> $11,180 was rolled over from the previous year's budget to be included in current year <br /> funds. <br /> Before proceeding with the selection of a consultant and completion of the National <br /> Register nomination, the HPC wanted to estimate support for a National Register <br /> nomination within the Cedar Grove crossroads community. (Under federal law, a <br /> proposed historic district will not be nominated to the National Register if a majority of <br />