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4 � 1 OR AN G E C 0 U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date August 23, 1994 Action Agenda Item # VII'_N SUBJECT: PRESERVATION PLAN - CONSULTANT SELECTION DEPARTMENT: PLANNING & INSPECTIONS PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Request for Proposals Planning Director Extension 2592 Jaeger Proposal (separate enclosure) Leimenstoll Proposal TELEPHONE NUMBERS: (separate enclosure) Hillsborough - 732-8181 8/10/94 Staff Memorandum Durham - 688-7331 8/16/94 Staff Memorandum Mebane - 227-2031 8/16/94 Draft HPC Minutes Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 PURPOSE: To consider selection of a consultant to prepare the Historic Preservation Element of the Comprehensive Plan. BACKGROUND: In May the County was awarded a fourth Survey and Planning Grant from the NC Department of Cultural Resources for Phase IV of the County's initial program of historic preservation. The amount of the grant is $10,000 to be matched by Orange County with $35,890 including cash and $16,850 of in-kind services and materials. The amount budgeted for consultant services is $29,040. The Request for Proposals was distributed in June. By July 31, four proposals were received. The Historic Preservation Commission appointed a subcommittee to review the proposals and make a recommendation to the full Commission. The subcommittee suggested that two of the proposals were worthy of consideration, one from The Jaeger Company of Gainesville, Georgia, and one from Ramsay Leimenstoll, Architect, of Greensboro. Copies of the two proposals are included as separate enclosures. The Historic Preservation Commission met on August 16 to discuss the two candidates. Based on the qualifi- cations and work experience with rural preservation planning, the HPC voted to recommend that The Jaeger