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The Board approved and certified the 2015 Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance <br /> Technical Advisory Committee (SAPFOTAC) Annual Report and certified those aspects of the <br /> Report detailed in the summary table. <br /> e. Authorization to Declare an Item Surplus <br /> The Board declared a Recycling Division Roll-off Truck/Asset Number 1681 as surplus and <br /> authorized the AMS Director to affect the sale of the item through GovDeals. <br /> f. Bid Award — Front-End Loader Truck for Solid Waste <br /> The Board awarded the bid to Carolina Environmental Services for the purchase of a Front <br /> End Loader Truck for the Sanitation Division of the Solid Waste Management Department at <br /> the delivered cost of$275,850.92. <br /> g. Contract Renewal for HDR Engineering, Incorporated of the Carolinas <br /> The Board approved a contract renewal between the Solid Waste Department and HDR <br /> Engineering, Inc. of the Carolinas for engineering and consulting services for Solid Waste <br /> through June 10, 2017 and authorized the Chair to sign the agreement on behalf of the Board. <br /> h. Storage Area Network Upgrade <br /> The Board approved the purchase of new equipment to increase the processing capacity and <br /> increase the storage capacity of the County's storage area network (SAN) while reducing the <br /> annual maintenance costs and authorized the Manager to sign the agreement and any future <br /> amendments. <br /> i. Interlocal Agreement with OWASA for Design of Wastewater Collection System <br /> Improvements in the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood <br /> The Board approved the Interlocal Agreement with Orange Water and Sewer Authority <br /> (OWASA) for the design of the wastewater collection system improvements in the Historic <br /> Rogers Road Neighborhood and authorized the Chair to sign. <br /> 7. Regular Agenda <br /> a. Family Success Alliance Request for Social Justice Funding and Approval of <br /> Budget Amendment#8-A <br /> The Board considered approving Budget Amendment#8-A transferring funds from the <br /> Social Justice Fund to the Family Success Alliance to 1) pilot kindergarten readiness and <br /> literacy programs for at least one school in each of the pilot Family Success Alliance (FSA) <br /> zones; and 2) provide initial funds to a zone partner agency for a Family Success Alliance <br /> navigator in each zone. <br /> Colleen Bridger, Orange County Health Department Director, said the FSA was <br /> established to address a body of research that shows the consequences of children growing <br /> up in poverty and that educational success can buffer these results. <br /> Colleen Bridger said this Alliance was created to follow the Harlem Children's Zone and <br /> related Promises Zones Neighborhoods initiative as evidence-based, successful intervention. <br /> She said the FSA was established less than a year ago in Orange County and in this time an <br /> advisory council has been created, service zones established, grant applications submitted, <br /> two priority interventions of kindergarten readiness and literacy, as well as zone navigators to <br /> connect families to the pipeline portals have been determined, and a program coordinator <br /> hired. <br /> Colleen Bridger said a team just returned from the Harlem Kids Zone last week where <br /> three days were spent learning about the programs and services offered there as well as the <br /> philosophy that undergirds the Harlem Children's Zone. She said there were two takeaways <br /> from the trip to the Harlem Children's Zone: 1.) Building trust with the community which is as <br /> important as building the pipeline and will take time. 2.) The philosophy of doing whatever it <br />