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r <br />_y <br />a <br />O RANGE C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: JUNE 4, 1990 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # �F <br />I <br />SUBJECT: REQUEST OF OWASA TO FUND LAND ACQUISITION <br />DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _X —No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />MANAGER'S OFFICE - EXTENSION 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967- 9251/968 -4501 <br />PURPOSE: To submit a clarified request of OWASA to include <br />funding in their 1990 -91 budget and subsequent budgets <br />for land acquisition to reduce future pollutant <br />loading potential within the University Lake Water- <br />shed. <br />BACKGROUND: At their April 2 meeting, the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners unanimously adopted a motion to request <br />OWASA to include funds in future budgets for the <br />acquisition of land in University Lake Watershed. The <br />attached letter of April 4 to Verla Insko, Chair of <br />the OWASA Board of Directors, communicated the Board's <br />request. This proposal was included as one of the <br />thirteen points recommended by the Intergovernmental <br />Work Group, later adopted as a part of the Watershed <br />Protection Strategies by the County Planning Board, <br />County Administration and.the Board of County <br />Commissioners. <br />RECOMMENDATION: Commissioner Willhoit suggests that the Board consider <br />further articulation of the request to OWASA to <br />include: <br />(1) Specificity of the amount and purpose of land <br />acquisition; namely, one - percent surcharge on the <br />