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Page 3 Commissioners Memo January 26, 1979 Labor cost estimates for the sign crew are based on Alamance County's experience and anticipates a crew of four placing at least 15 signs a day. The project coordinator position should continue at least one year. Current CETA funding commitments and regulations terminate on September 30th. It is reasonable to assume, but not certain, this position could be continued after that date. GENERAL. COMMENTS If a CETA funded project coordinator is approved this project could be started almost immediately with no significant local expense in this fiscal year. If the Board elects not to allocate a CETA pos=ition the overall project budget estimate should be increased $9,500. The project however could still be started almost immediately if the Board provided funding for the coordinator's position. Appropriations for 600 signs and a crew to place these signs might be approved in the 7979-1980 budget. The naming process however will not be advanced far enough this summer to make installations efficient. I envision signs being acquired in the spring of 1980 and placed that summer, The problem I have with projecting a cost estimate for the project revolves around the time it will take to complete the naming process. I can locate no yardstick against which to measure. Alamance County has spent four years working on the area south of Interstate 85. However, they have no good time records. Their planning department worked on the project only when they had time available. The Durham County project was done many years ago and no records are available there. Thus, the cost figures for the coordinators time is more of a guess than an estimate. If you fill this position through CETA that program will provide at least seven months free time for the coordinator and possibly as much as eighteen months. This longer time span appears more than adequate to perform the task. However if the task force resolving name issues does not meet fre- quently and close out its cases regularity the project is apt to be pro- tracted over an unreasonably long time thus running up its cost as well as delaying maximum community benefit. We can expect an initial flare of sign vandalism which will subside. Alamance County now must replace about 10% of it signs annually. Our long run experience should not differ greatly from theirs. I have asked planning to investigate the practicality of developing a black and house numbering system for the rural area. If this idea proves reasonable block numbers might be affixed to our signs with the idea of implementing a rural house numbering system sometime in the future. In making this plan I have attempted to: A) Keep the Board of County Commissioners out of the entire process until a final public hearing. There you will receive a recommended road name from the "task force". I do not feel you have time to get more deeply involved in this process than necessary.