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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 20, 2017 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-d <br /> SUBJECT: Operations Agreements - Cedar Grove and Efland Cheeks Community Centers <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager, County <br /> Attorney, Environment, <br /> Agriculture, Parks & Recreation <br /> (DEAPR), Asset Management <br /> Services (AMS), Information <br /> Technologies (IT) <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Draft Operating Agreement - Cedar Bonnie Hammersley, 919-245-2300 <br /> Grove Neighborhood Association John Roberts, 919-245-2320 <br /> Draft Operating Agreement — United David Stancil, 919-245-2510 <br /> Voices of Efland Cheeks Jeff Thompson, 919-245-2625 <br /> Jim Northrup, 919-245-2275 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider entering into operating agreements with non-profit organizations - <br /> Cedar Grove Neighborhood Association and United Voices of Efland Cheeks - for the operation <br /> of the County's Cedar Grove Community Center and Efland Cheeks Community Center, <br /> respectively. <br /> BACKGROUND: In June 2016 Orange County began regular operating hours at the Efland <br /> Cheeks Community Center (built 1992) and the Cedar Grove Community Center (a 2016 <br /> renovation of a 1950 building). During FY 2016-17, the County has worked with community <br /> groups at each location to operate the centers and provide for community programs and access, <br /> with a goal of completing operating agreements at each center for a community non-profit to <br /> eventually take over the operation of the centers on a regular schedule. This is a similar <br /> approach to the one taken at a third County-owned community center, the Rogers Road <br /> Community Center (operated under an existing agreement by the non-profit Rogers-Eubanks <br /> Neighborhood Association). <br /> (The Rogers Road / RENA Operating Agreement is a five-year agreement that runs through <br /> February 2, 2019. As such, a separate addendum to that agreement incorporating new <br /> provisions has been drafted and is included on tonight's June 20, 2017 meeting agenda as a <br /> separate Board action.) <br /> In recent months, a new association has formed and achieved incorporation and non-profit <br /> status with the intention of contracting with the County to operate the Cedar Grove Community <br />