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5 3) Interlocal Agreement -History, Update and Summary of Responsibilities of Parties, including Payments Required The Town of Chapel Hill has recently received a number of recommendations from a consulting firm (Maximus Inc,) that was retained to scrutinize current Town spending and operations, According to local media accounts, one of the recommendations was to cease commercial garbage collection within the Town. While the Town has apparently made no final decision on this recommendation, some questions have been raised regarding how such a recommendation could be implemented consistent with the Interlocal Agreement. The AOG meeting may provide an opportunity for the Town of Chapel Hill to update the group on this issue and how it may or may not relate to the Interlocal Agreement. No Attachments D, Impact of Development in Chatham, Durham and Alamance Counties near Orange County Line General comments have been made during the last several months regarding the substantial residential development proposed in northern Chatham County in close proximity to the Orange County line, A concern has been noted that the future residents of these Chatham County developments will likely place additional pressure on nearby parks and recreation and other facilities located in Orange County, Recognition of this possibility as well as beginning initial discussion of any potential actions to address this impending, long term issue as it relates to Chatham County development may be worthwhile, Discussion of the potential for similar impact from development in Durham and Alamance counties may also be appropriate, No Attachments E, School Resource Officers Pursuant to ongoing collaboration discussions between County and schools officials, the employment and funding of School Resource Officers (SROs) was raised in Summer 2004, In an October 2004 meeting, the County Manager and staff met with representatives of the Sheriff's Department, municipal police departments, and the two school systems to review what the present structures are for the provision of SROs and whether there is something else or different that needs to be done and that jurisdictions want to do. The consensus during this meeting was that functionally, it is best for jurisdictions to provide law enforcement officers as SROs in the schools within those jurisdictions, Law enforcement officers know the students and the community, and the connections between SROs and kids often extend well beyond school hours. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) has SROs at both high schools, at all 4 middle schools, and has an additional SRO who splits time between Carrboro and McDougle Elementary Schools, The Town of Carrboro provides and funds the McDougle SRO as well as the SRO split between the elementary schools. CHCCS now funds the SROs at the other schools with a 2004-05 budgetary impact of $288,000. These SROs are provided as employees of the Town of Chapel Hill, but the Town no longer provides funding for these officers..