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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />RESOLUTION <br />Approval of Bolin Creek Greenway Expansion for 2001 Orange County Parks and Open <br />Space Funds <br />WHEREAS, in 2001, the Towns of Chapel Hill and Garrboro requested that Orange County <br />include funds for greenways projects in the County's fall bond referendum, and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County policy and the 1999 Joint Master Recreation and Parks Work <br />Group Report had identified the interconnection of Town greenways with rural open space <br />networks as a high priority, including the proposed Northern Chapel Hill Township Rustic <br />Woodland Trail connector, and <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners authorized a total of $1.75 million for <br />Joint Town/County Open Space in the bond for these purposes, and <br />WHEREAS, the 2001 Parks and Open Space Bond was approved by voters, and <br />WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners and Chapel Hill Town Council have agreed upon a <br />collaborative planning process forjoint County/Town projects in the 2001 band through the work <br />of a joint Park Planning Committee (PPC), and <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County-Chapel Hill PPC has recommended that work begin on the <br />engineering, design and eventual constn~ction of the next phase of the Bolin Creek Greenway <br />in Chapel Hill, from Airport Road to Estes Drive Extension, and that the $1.0 million in County <br />bond funds far Chapel Hill greenways projects be appropriated for this project in conjunction <br />with $2.0 million of Town funds, and <br />WHEREAS, the Tawn of Chapel Hill plans to initiate the project using $100,000 of Town funds <br />for the initial phase of the engineering and design study; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />agrees to the selection of the Bolin Greek Greenway expansion as the project for use of County <br />bond funds far greenways in Chapel Hill. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County will make its portion of the funding available for <br />this project, contingent on like funding from the Town as identified above, available in accord <br />with the Board's Debt Issuance Schedule. <br />This, the 23`d day of June, 2004. <br />Barry Jacobs, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />ATTEST: <br />Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board <br />