Agenda - 03-02-2006-10b - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

5 MEMORANDUM TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners CAPIES: John Link, County Manager Rod Visser, Assistant County Manager Donna Dean, Budget Director Pam Jones, Purchasing/Central Services Director FROM: Paul Thames, PE, County Enginee DATE: March 2, 2006 SUBJECT: Moving forward with the Buckhorn EDD/Gravelly Hill Middle School water and sewer extension The purpose of this memorandum is to: update the Board on the latest developments related to Construction Loan and Grant Section (CLGS) review of Mebane's proposal to increase the capacity of its wastewater infrastructure (that portion which will receive wastewater flow from both the Buckhorn EDD/Gravelly Hill school and the Buckhorn community north of I-85/40) outline the regulatory approval process that allows Orange County to move forward with bidding a Buckhorn EDD/Gravelly Hill water and sewer extension project. As the Board will recall from staff memorandums and presentations at several BOCC meetings and work sessions in February, a project that will provide water and sewer utilities to Gravelly Hill Middle School at a point in time anywhere near the proposed August 25th middle school opening will require that the County initiate a constn~ction project (EDD south of I-85/40 and Gravelly Hill) that is not funded through the STAG (State and Tribal Assistance Grant) process. It may be possible for a locally funded project to provide the means (completed water system, short term pump and haul wastewater system) to meet a projected August 25th school opening, Although a reconfigured project would no longer fall under STAG review processes and extended timetable, the actual project review/approval/ permitting would remain under the purview of CGLS, County staff, the County's engineering consultant (Coulter Jewell Thames - CJT} and the City of Mebane have been working to address CGLS concerns and comments arising from the review process to date, As of March 15t, the City of Mebane has submitted a revised plan to update the portion of its existing infrastructure that CGLS has found problematic, In a subsequent CGLS communication (phone and email, attached) to County staff, CGLS staff has indicated that it will not review Mebane's submittal or any more material or documents submitted by the County or the City of Mebane until we submit a complete package of information that includes all pertinent documentation. That package must include revised plans and specifications (either showing the reduced-scope project broken out of the STAG funding process or containing those STAG related revisions that have been required by CGLS), a plan (with supporting documentation) to improve the existing Mebane infrastn~cture and the County s formal letter of intent to reconfigure the existing STAG funded project.