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13 1 Michael Talbert reviewed the following recommendations from the Historic Rogers Road 2 Neighborhood Task Force, as listed on page 3 of the abstract: 3 4 1. That that the Cost associated with the Community Center and Sewer Improvements will be 5 shared 14% Carrboro, 43% Chapel Hill and 43% Orange County. 6 7 2. That the Sewer Concept Plan presented by Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA)in 8 2012 to serve 86 parcels at an estimated cost of$5.8 million should be funded by Carrboro, 9 Chapel Hill, and Orange County in proportion to the recommended cost sharing. The first 10 phase of the construction should include segments 5, 6, and 8 at an estimated cost of$3.7 11 million, serving 67 parcels. Funding recommended is to be included in the Fiscal 2014/2015 12 Budgets, with the remaining 19 parcels to be constructed in the second phase and included 13 in the Fiscal 2015/2016 Budgets. 14 15 3. That the Task Force prefers the original Sewer Concept Plan presented by OWASA in 2012 16 to serve 86 parcels at an estimated cost of$5.8 million. First this concept will provide sewer 17 improvements to the entire Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood; secondly, this proposal will 18 enable all of the partners, Orange County, the Town of Chapel Hill, and the Town of 19 Carrboro, to equally share the costs of the Community Center and Sewer Improvements in 20 proportion to their responsibilities. If either the Orange County Board of Commissioners or 21 the Chapel Hill Town Council do not favor the original Sewer Concept Plan presented by 22 OWASA in 2012 or cannot agree on the concept of an Extra Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) for 23 the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood, the Sewer Concept Plan presented by OWASA in 24 2012 including only segments 5, 6, and 8 to serve 67 parcels at an estimated cost of$3.7 25 million should be funded. 26 27 4. That the County petition the Town of Chapel Hill to annex all County Owned Property in the 28 Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood. 29 30 5. That the Task Force requests that the Managers explore the collaborative approach to the 31 Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood as outlined in February 25, 2013 memo to Elected 32 Officials and report back to the Task Force on August 21, 2013. 33 34 6. That the Managers meet and talk about the options related to connecting the residents of the 35 Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood to sewer. 36 37 7. That funding is identified for the cost of connecting from the OWASA infrastructure to the 38 home in addition to applying for grants for low-to-moderate income persons. It is a priority of 39 the Task Force to identify funding not only for the installation of sewer infrastructure but also 40 cost of connections to homeowners and the Task Force recommends that the County and 41 Towns set up a fund specifically for people in the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood and to 42 fund the cost of the connections from the home to the main. 43 44 Michael Talbert said the task force feels that recommendation 7 is the most important. 45 He said the following progress that has been made: the landfill has been closed; water 46 funding has been established for payment of tap and connection fees; the County has cleaned 47 up 21 illegal dump sites at the perimeter of the landfill; and a community center has been 48 designed. 49 Michael Talbert said there are a couple of possible next steps, one of which is to assign 50 the managers the task of implementing all 7 recommendations. He said there are some pitfalls