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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 11, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. G(- - ~ <br />SUBJECT: Approval of Sanitary Sewer Easement on Elementary School #10 Site and <br />Proposed Cost-Share Agreement <br />DEPARTMENT: County Attorney, ERCD, PUBIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Purchasin <br />g <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Easement Document <br />Map of Proposed Easement <br />Proposed Cost-Share Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Geof Gledhill, County Attorney <br />David Stancil, ERC Director <br />Pam Jones, Purchasing Director <br />PURPOSE: To consider approval of a sanitary sewer easement to be granted to the Orange <br />Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) for future sewer service around the new Chapel Hill- <br />Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS)Elementary School #10 site; and to consider approval of a <br />cost-share agreement between Orange County, M/I Homes and Priority Development for sewer <br />extension construction. <br />BACKGROUND: On October 23, the Board considered sanitary sewer easements needed to <br />provide service to the new Elementary School #10, which is currently under construction on the <br />County's Twin Creeks (Moniese Nomp) District Park and Educational Campus site. As a part of <br />that item, it was noted that one portion of the requested easement, an easement that wraps <br />around the new school to provide possible future expansion. for OWASA service areas to the <br />north, required additional exploration. While this easement does not contain the sewer line that <br />will provide connection to the school, the easement was a requirement of the Town of Carrboro <br />and Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) as part of approval of the school <br />development permits. The location of the easement, as it was proposed by the engineer <br />employed by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, had the potential to impact the remaining <br />portions of the educational campus, as it was located wholly outside of the Elementary School <br />#10 parcel. Staff was asked to work to assess and resolve this question, and bring back a <br />different solution to this regulatory requirement. <br />In early November, County staff met with representatives from OWASA, the Chapel Hill- <br />Carrboro City Schools and the architecture and engineering firm for the Schools (Corley Redfoot <br />and Zack). Based on that discussion and work by the engineers, the easement has been re- <br />routed so that nearly all of the corridor is within the 19 acre elementary school site (please see <br />