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Prepared 04/18/06 II <br />ESTIMATED GREENE TRACT REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNTS <br />Under the interlocal "Agreement for Solid Waste Management", the term <br />"Reimbursement Amount" is defined as follows: <br />"(1) in the case of disposition to a North Carolina local government that is also a Party, so long <br />as that government devotes the transferred por-lion to public purposes, (a) $608,823, being the <br />original purchase price of the Greene Tract, multiplied (b) b,y a fraction, the numerator of which <br />is the number of whole acres of the Greene Tract being disposed and the denominator of which <br />is 169, plus (c) uncompounded interest on the product of (a) and (b) at the annual rate of 6 00% <br />from March 30, 1984 to the effective date of any disposition, and (2) in the case of any other <br />disposition, the greater of either (a) the Reimbursement Amount to a North Carolina local <br />government that is also a Party, or (b) the net proceeds of a sale after the costs of the sale are <br />paid " <br />If one were to assume that the June 2002 recommendations of the Greene Tract Work <br />Group were implemented, with conservation easements recorded sometime during FY <br />2006-07 on both jointly owned property and on the County's 60 acres, and with alump- <br />sum payment due date of July 1, 2007, the total reimbursement amount would be <br />approximately, <br />Ori final Purchase Price $608,823 <br />Annual Interest at 6%uncompounded 36,530 <br />Total Interest (23 years 3 months) 849,322 <br />Total Reimbursement Amount $1,458,145 <br />The respective shares of the local governments in making reimbursements to the Solid <br />Waste/Landfill Operations Enterprise Fund would be approximately (based on the actual <br />surveyed acreage of 164, rather than the 109 acres cited in the interlocal agreement): <br /> Principal Interest Total <br />Entire Greene Tract 164 acres $608,823 $849,322 $'1,458,145 <br />Orange County deeded 60 acres 222,741 310,727 533,468 <br />portion <br />Orange County interest 43% of 104 acres 166,015 231,596 397,611 <br />in remainder <br />Chapel Hill interest in 43% of 104 acres 166,015 231,596 397,611 <br />remainder <br />Carrboro interest in 14% of 104 acres 54,052 75,403 129,455 <br />remainder <br />If the local governments were to agree that reimbursement payments should be spread <br />out over a period of several years, that might make annual budget planning easier than <br />having to budget for one large reimbursement payment Spreading payments could be <br />structured to provide necessary cash to the enterprise fund for future major capital <br />expenditures (e g. a transfer station), while easing the burden on Town and County <br />General Funds. The County and Town Managers and staffs can collaborate to produce <br />a recommendation for payback over amulti-year period, for future Board discussion <br />