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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 4, 2006 Action Agenda Item No. ~-~ SUBJECT: Possible Conservation Easements for Greene Tract DEPARTMENT: ERCDIManager PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT(S): 6/26/02 Greene Tract Work Group Resolution and Concept Map Vicinity and Ownership Maps 1999 Solid Waste Interlocal Agreement Excerpt Estimated Greene Tract Reimbursement INFORMATION CANTACT: David Stancil, 919-245-2590 Rod Visser, 919-245-2300 Amounts PURPOSE: To discuss matters related to the possible recording of conservation easements on portions of the Greene Tract to permanently protect those areas as open space, BACKGROUND: At the Board's regular meeting on April 18, 2006, the Board received a brief report on matters related to the possible recordation of conservation easements on portion(s) of the property known as the Greene Tract, This agenda item provides the Board with an opportunity to discuss issues related to such conservation easements, and to discuss approaches and implications for reimbursements due to the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund if actions are taken that would render the Greene Tract no longer an asset of the solid waste management system. The Greene Tract was acquired by the Landfill Owners Group (LOG) in 1984 as a possible future landfill site, pending further study. The Landfill Owners Group was an entity with elected representatives of the three jurisdictions -Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro -that owned the landfill and the Greene Tract prior to 1999, In 1999, the County and Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough entered into an interlocal agreement governing the future management of solid waste throughout Orange County, The agreement provided for the transfer of solid waste management and recycling operations from the Town of Chapel Hill to Orange County. A significant element of the agreement covered the disposition of the Greene Tract (which was explicitly designated by the agreement as a landfill asset) and the conditions under which reimbursement would be due to the Salid Waste Enterprise Fund (which was the source of funding for the $608,823 purchase price of the property in 1984), 60 acres of the Greene Tract were deeded outright to Orange County to be reserved for solid waste management purposes, The remainder of the property (104 acres, as subsequently determined by survey, compared to the 109 acre balance assumed in the agreement) is still in joint ownership by the County, Carrboro, and Chapel Hill.