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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 19, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. q- q <br />SUBJECT: Interlocal Agreement on OCS Middle School #3/West Ten Soccer Complex <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager/Purchasing/Planning/ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Attorney <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />As noted in "Background" Rod Visser, ext 2308 <br />Pam Jones, ext 2652 <br />Craig Benedict, ext 2592 <br />Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />Chapel Hill <br />Durham <br />Mebane <br /> <br />732-8181 <br />968-4501 <br />688-7331 <br />336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To approve an interlocal agreement, and related documents, with the Orange <br />County Schools that will facilitate the development and construction of the third OCS middle <br />school in the Efland area and the adjacent West Ten Soccer Complex that is owned and will be <br />operated by Orange County. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County and the Orange County Schools have decided to collaborate <br />in the development of two major capital projects on adjacent properties in the Efland area of <br />western Orange County: a six field soccer complex awned and operated by the County, and a <br />new 700 student middle school for the Orange County Schools. As outlined in succeeding <br />paragraphs of this abstract, the Orange County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) will need to <br />make a number of decisions at this and future meetings that will facilitate further development <br />of both the soccer and school sites. <br />Property Acquisition <br />In March 2004, the BOCC received a presentation on behalf of the Orange County Schools <br />(OCS) system regarding the proposed third OCS middle school and siting on property then <br />owned by the Allison and Daniel families. The BOGC; <br />• approved the price far OCS to purchase the 66+ acres of Allison and Daniel property of <br />$775,000; <br />• approved an accompanying OCS Middle School #3 capital project ordinance appropriating <br />that finding for site acquisition; and <br />• directed County staff to work with OCS on the ultimate disposition of approximately 25 acres <br />of the purchased property (at that time it was anticipated that only 41 acres of the <br />