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Approved 12/7/2016 6 265 Lydia Wegman: Yeah we used to get capital improvement money and… 266 267 Tony Blake: Right. My understanding is all this maintenance stuff was in the CIP but it was used for expansion. In 268 Chapel Hill it was used to build that brand new wing on the Chapel Hill High School. 269 270 Craig Benedict: But you will be part of it so you’ll understand how we’re trying to balance residential growth and 271 non-residential growth. How important it is from that tax based standpoint. There was a request by Chapel Hill to us 272 to share in the incentives towards a development and they said it’s a bonus, the revenue that w ill come from this 273 new project but it was so vague. They said, “You’ve been approved for 100,000 square feet of residential” and I 274 said, “Well, what type? Single-family, multi-family, 3-bedroom?” and to balance the sheet of fiscal impacts at a 275 County level versus city level. 276 277 Tony Blake: But that’s where the schools and those things are funded, right? 278 279 Craig Benedict: Yeah. It’s a big number. You know our County budget is 48-50% schools and you add health, social 280 services, and you’re probably up to 78% of our budget. 281 282 Craig Benedict continued presentation. 283 284 Tony Blake: We’re going to have to change the watersheds? 285 286 Craig Benedict: We won’t be able to tell people that you cannot put X amount and have phosphorous and nitrogen 287 coming off your lake. And 10 years ago the state would say great, you want to exceed our regulations and so this is 288 how long this is going on. So we have these rules in effect and it’s gotten to the point that it can be challenged. 289 Legislation is clearer and clearer that we cannot do the nutrient request. Now they will be putting what they call 290 those erosion control devices still on the site and we have a very good program in that area. That might ameliorate 291 some of the impacts during construction or if we can convince them to keep it po st construction and turn it into a 292 storm water device. But it’s not going to be a mandate. We’ll take it as far as we can but we don’t want that to be 293 challenged and for it to have rippling effect through other things. Michael’s office is working to try to preserve the 294 size of our stream buffers because they exceed state law. We might be able to preserve that because we have 295 some science behind it. 296 297 Craig Benedict continued presentation. 298 299 Tony Blake: I noticed that the towers that were supposed to be built for the emergency services this year didn’t 300 make the budget. 301 302 Paul Guthrie: There’s a lot of turmoil going. Especially in the Southern end of the County between competing 303 communications systems. You’ve got AT&T going in, you’ve got Google messing around right now, and now most 304 recently you’ve got Verizon popping up a new tower south of Ridgeline and Verizon is going with some new ideas 305 of commercialization. So a lot of that is going on. 306 307 Tony Blake: I’ve been working Jim Northrup and sitting in on that group and I think what the solution really is to put 308 up a few towers and engage a company like Chatham Wireless, who has been successful in doing this, I got a 309 meeting together with Jim Northrup and the president of Chatham Wireless to chat about it. But again, it’s getting 310 the towers and getting the towers fed with fiber optics, and building that infrastructure, which the state will allow you 311 to do, as long as you are not in the business yourself. I have one more item to add on there because I sat in on th e 312 emergency services meeting with the fire chiefs and the County Commissioners. The burn building they use to train 313 is going to be shut down because the neighbors are complaining, it’s reached its end of life. The fire chiefs are 314 trying to get together and ask the County to build a training facility or a series of training facilities and this would 315 also be not just emergency service but the sheriff’s department and the police department for driving training and 316