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Attachment 3 7 MEMORANDUM TO: Board of County Commissioners THRU: Laura Blackmon, County Manager FROM: Gwen Harvey, Assistant County Manger Dave Stancil, Director, Environmental Resources & Conservation Craig Benedict, Director, Planning Gayle Wilson, Director, Solid Waste RE: Greene Tract Update (Abridged to focus on reimbursement issues) DATE: March 24, 2008 (Amended April 4, 2008) Background The Greene Tract was acquired in 1986 by the Landfill Owners Group. Subsequent land use plans for the area designated the site a `Possible Future Landfill Site, Pending Future Study.' In April, 2000, Orange County took over solid waste management activities in the county, through an Inter Local Agreement with Chapel Hiii and Carrboro (which, along with the County, had previously owned the Orange County Landfill). As a result of the Inter Local Agreement, 60 acres of the Greene Tract (determined to be 164 acres in total, via survey) was conveyed to Orange County for "solid waste management purposes.' The Inter Local Agreement (amended April 12, 2000) also provided for the three.owning partners to determine, over atwo-year period, the ultimate disposition of the remaining 104 jointly held acres. The Agreement further included a repayment mechanism to the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund, if the Greene Tract were used for purposes other than solid waste. Interim Stens With renewed interest and discussion in the Greene Tract in 2007, two meetings were convened (October 3, 2007 and February 14, 2008) by the Chair and Mayors which included management and planning staff to review the conditions as outlined in the Inter Local Agreement under which a reimbursement would be due to the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund, and to re-examine development feasibility options given interest within the Rogers Road SAP Task Force process. Generally speaking, setting aside the approximately 85.9 acres of the jointly held Greene Tract portion for open space protected by conservation easement has been seen as the reimbursement "trigger". There was consensus at the October meeting that financial reimbursement of the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund needed to begin July 1, 2008.