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1 <br /> 1 Attachment 1 <br /> 2 <br /> 3 DRAFT MINUTES <br /> 4 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> 5 MEBANE CITY COUNCIL <br /> 6 JOINT MEETING <br /> 7 September 15, 2016 <br /> 8 6:00PM <br /> 9 <br /> 10 The Orange County Board of Commissioners and the City of Mebane met in a joint meeting on <br /> 11 Thursday, September 15, 2016 at the West Campus Office Building in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> 12 <br /> 13 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Earl McKee and Commissioners Mark Dorosin, <br /> 14 Barry Jacobs, Bernadette Pelissier, Renee Price and Penny Rich <br /> 15 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> 16 COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: <br /> 17 COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager Travis <br /> 18 Myren and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified <br /> 19 appropriately below) <br /> 20 MEBANE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Glendel Stephenson, and Council <br /> 21 Members, Mayor Pro-Tem Ed Hooks, Everette Greene, Patty Philipps, Jill Auditori <br /> 22 MEBANE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Tim Bradley <br /> 23 MEBANE CITY COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: City Manager David Cheek and Assistant City <br /> 24 Manager Chris Rollins, Lawson Brown (Attorney) and Franz Holt (Engineer) <br /> 25 <br /> 26 Welcome, Call to Order, and Opening Comments <br /> 27 Chair McKee called the meeting to order at 6:04 p.m., and welcomed all to the meeting. <br /> 28 Mayor Stephenson said Mebane and Orange County have had an increasingly good <br /> 29 relationship for the past 27 years. He said 22% of Mebane is in Orange County. He said <br /> 30 Orange County has spent millions of dollars in Mebane's Economic Development District (EDD) <br /> 31 with water and sewer, and the Town is here to help Orange County in any way to grow this joint <br /> 32 area. <br /> 33 Chair McKee asked that all attendees introduce themselves. <br /> 34 <br /> 35 1. Update on Efland Sewer <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Background: Orange County has begun to transfer certain phases of utility construction <br /> 38 consistent with the original and later amended joint utility service agreement. Much of the more <br /> 39 recent water and sewer infrastructure work has been for economic development purposes in <br /> 40 designated zones. Over$5 Million in `backbone' infrastructure has been completed. Morinaga <br /> 41 was able to use one of the earlier infrastructure phases. <br /> 42 <br /> 43 An additional $8 million of work is in process that will facilitate additional economic development <br /> 44 potential and will permit the existing sewer flow from Efland to be transferred to Mebane. The <br /> 45 project will be bid in the next 2017. It includes 8,300 linear foot of gravity, one (1) new lift station <br /> 46 and 19,000 linear foot of sewer force main including jack and bore under 1-85/1-40. <br /> 47 <br /> 48 Design has been coordinated with Mebane and its engineers. The project, due to its scope, will <br /> 49 take approximately 15 months (projected completion in July 2018). <br /> 50 <br />