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8 1 Bonnie Hammersley said no, the evaluation will come after the development is 2 performing. 3 Chair McKee asked if the Carrboro sewer project received Article 46 funds. 4 Commissioner Jacobs said yes for Roberson Street. 5 Commissioner Rich said that was a project in the past and she is thinking about the 6 future. 7 Chair McKee said that is correct and acknowledged funds have been used as needs 8 have arisen. 9 Craig Benedict said certain amounts of money are pay as you go funds which can be 10 used on a case by case basis. 11 Chair McKee asked if the water/sewer infrastructure coming out of Durham is smaller, 12 and if it is only coming down Route 70. 13 Craig Benedict said it would parallel 1-85, in the far northeast quadrant, north of Route 14 70 and up to 1-85. He said a consultant, hired by both Durham and Orange Counties, has 15 shown the overall system is too much for Durham to handle. He said Orange County is seeking 16 to avoid overloading Durham's system with any sewers that are sent there. 17 Craig Benedict said there is a 13 acre proposal adjacent to Durham that will hopefully 18 allow a gravity system into Durham without a lift station. 19 Chair McKee said the properties that front to the southern side of Route 70 are in need 20 of repairs and upgrades. He asked if these properties are outside of the service area for this 21 sewer. 22 Craig Benedict said these properties would most likely be outside this service area. He 23 said a gravity system cannot work on that side of Route 70. He said a mobile home park in the 24 area has an emergency sewer line into Durham. 25 Chair McKee said he is referencing the businesses directly across from the old Skyland 26 Inn. He said there should be effort made to include these businesses even if it is at the 27 County's expense as they are prime properties. 28 Craig Benedict said the process thus far has looked at this quadrant of land. He said 29 problems arose on the Durham City side with the risk of over capacity. He said the original 30 proposal showed the need for a 3-mile forced main costing about $5 million, to go into Durham, 31 bypassing the over capacity gravity lines. He said there is a master plan and it is hoped that 32 Durham will start making improvements near the Orange County border. 33 Chair McKee said if large amounts of money are going to be spent it should be insured 34 that the return is effective. 35 Commissioner Jacobs asked if the County assesses once the lines are put in. 36 Craig Benedict said the Durham agreement is a bit different than the one with City of 37 Mebane. He said when development comes in there is a frontage charge which goes towards 38 paying down the debt incurred by Orange County for work done in the ground. 39 Commissioner Rich said she wanted to bring the discussion back to how the southern 40 part of the County gets economic development funding. She asked if the process for Towns 41 requesting money could be explained. 42 Bonnie Hammersley said these funds are open to the entire County and as projects 43 come forward, it is the Board's decision where the funding is used. 44 Commissioner Rich said there is a proposal for $2.6 million being spent in the northern 45 part of the County, leaving only $250,000 to be spent in the rest of the County for other needs. 46 She said these numbers seem unbalanced given that most of the sales tax dollars come from 47 the southern half of the County. 48 Bonnie Hammersley said she would agree with Commissioner Rich. She added that the 49 more urgent needs are in the northern part of the County; however, the Manager's Office 50 continues to look at the overall countywide system and all development needs.