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2 r The task force began meeting in June 1994 and submitted a report for consideration of the various boards in December 1994 . The report contained proposed or "straw" utility service area boundaries and an outline of OWASA' s correlative objectives to adopting the boundary map. The report recommended that the various governing boards: 1) review the proposed boundaries and correlative objectives; 2) provide comments, suggestions, revisions, etc. , to the task force' s proposed boundaries and objectives; and 3) reconvene the task force to address the objectives and to open discussion with other entities providing utility service within Orange County. To date, the Town of Hillsborough and OWASA have adopted resolutions responding to the task force' s report . The resolution adopted by Hillsborough takes specific exception to correlative objective Number 5, which relates to the requirement that a utility be required to accept full responsibility for addressing all failures of water and sewer systems within its geographic service area boundary. The OWASA resolution endorses the proposed utility service area boundaries, contingent on two stipulations : 1) the agreement of the affected local governments to seek local legislation making the service area boundaries legally binding; and 2) the agreement of the affected local governments to commit the resources necessary to seek agreement on the correlative objectives and to incorporate those items in the service area boundary legislation. The Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill have not yet responded to the task force report, although Chapel Hill is scheduled to discuss the report at its June 26th meeting. RECOMMENDATION: The administration recommends that the Board review the enclosed information and adopt the proposed resolution accepting the proposed utility service area boundaries and directing the task force to: a) address the correlative objective insofar as it is possible and practical; and b) begin the process of integrating the other local providers of water and sewer utilities into the service area boundary discussion.