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APPROVED 9/1/2015 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Budget Work Session June 11, 2015 7:00 p.m. The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a work session on Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. Chair McKee called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. He noted the following items at the Commissioners' places: - White pages, paper clipped together: Orange County Capital Investment Plan (CIP) summary pages - blue sheet— Orange County CIP Year 1 (FY 2015-16) Recommended Projects, revised - gold sheet— North Carolina Board of Education Compensation Comparisons, Orange County Regional Comparisons for discussion purposes - green sheet— North Carolina Elected Official Compensation Comparisons, Orange County Regional Comparisons for discussion purposes 1. FY2015-20 Capital Investment Plan Accept the Five Year Capital Investment Plan and Approve the Intent to Adopt Capital Funding for FY2015-16 Paul Laughton, Orange County Finance Administrative Services, reviewed the revisions to the CIP. He said on page 6 two projects have been changed from pay-as-you-go (PAYG) to debt financing: Cedar Grove Kiosk and the generator project for Hillsborough Commons. He said this caused a revision to the debt service pages on 133 and 134. Commissioner Jacobs said Fairview Park is not in the CIP. Paul Laughton said Fairview Park is not a CIP Project. He said the parks project for repairs and renovations for Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Recreation (DEAPR) has $300,000 for next year and some of that funding will go to the Fairview Park and to paving the parking area. David Stancil, DEAPR Director, said this is correct and the project is to pave the Fairview Police sub-station parking lot in order to gain parking spots for Fairview Park. He said the County will split the costs evenly with the Town of Hillsborough. He said the second alternative is to have parking on Rainey Avenue which is adjacent to the Park. He said in the long term there may be need for the larger parking lot that is in the master plan at a cost of $400,000 to $500,000. He said this would be off of the public works drive. He said the road extension and the parking lot are the only items remaining in the existing Master Plan. He said that is a future phase. Commissioner Jacobs clarified that there is $300,000 for improvements for all of the parks for FY 2015-16 and to build this parking lot out would cost $500,000. David Stancil said that is correct. He said an interim solution is being sought and that will create 40 to 50 parking spaces. He said paving a gravel parking lot typically provides 10 percent more spots than were present on the gravel lot. Commissioner Jacobs asked if there is a way to track the funds for the Fairview Park project. David Stancil said going forward items in a particular group, in a particular CIP year, could be sub-listed.