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070 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. FS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: JUNE 21, 1988 <br /> SUBJECT: CONTRACT AMENDMENT BETWEEN ORANGE COUNTY AND US GEOLOGICAL <br /> SURVEY <br /> DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S <br /> OFFICE,X501 <br /> JOINT FUNDING AGREEMENT <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To amend the contract with US Geological Survey, adding five <br /> hundred dollars ($500) . <br /> BACKGROUND: Orange County has a standing joint contract with US Geological <br /> Survey for maintaining the Eno River gage located at the end <br /> of Cameron Street in the Town of Hillsborough. The shared <br /> cost is two thousand and nine hundred dollars ($2900) for each <br /> party. A telemeter can be added to the gaging station, which <br /> will permit a dial-up monitoring of the cubic feet per second, <br /> at a shared cost of five hundred dollars ($500) for each <br /> party. The contract would need to be amended to three <br /> thousand and four hundred dollars ($3400) for the year of <br /> 1988-89. A maintenance cost of four hundred dollars ($400) <br /> per year for each party will be added to the contract after <br /> June, 1989. <br /> With the installation of the telemeter many man hours could be <br /> saved as well as being able. to check the flow at the same time <br /> each day and on weekends. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S) : <br /> Approve contract amendment. <br /> ..t; .., .,.r.:. -. .. a .. ,..,.• -� <br />