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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 3, 2004 <br />Action Age a <br />Item No. -- C,. <br />SUBJECT• Fairview Master Plan Memorandum of Agreement and Status Report <br />DEPARTMENT: County Attorney, County <br />Manager, ERCD, Recreation <br />and Parks <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Draft Fairview Park MOA <br />2) Draft Preliminary Concept Plan <br />3) Map of Site -Park and Operation Center <br />4) 9/30/04 County Engineer Memo re Cost of <br />Restoring Landfilled Areas of Park <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br />Gwen Harvey, 245-2300 <br />David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />Lori Taft, 245-2660 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To review the draft Memorandum of Agreement between the County and Town <br />of Hillsborough regarding the master planning and design of Fairview Park and associated <br />land and facilities, and to receive a brief status report on activities toward the park design. <br />BACKGROUND: At the September 215f meeting, the Board instructed staff to continue to <br />work on preliminary activities toward the planning and design of Fairview Park, and asked <br />that the Town and County Attorneys revise the draft Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) <br />accordingly. The design process for the park would create a Master Plan for the park site <br />and the adjoining County Public Works property, as agreed by the County and Town boards <br />in 2003, which includes the proposed site far parks operation base and/storage facility as <br />well as properties subject to land swap discussions. A "first phase" of Fairview Park exists, <br />with a playground and ballfield constructed separately in 1986 and 1999. The Master Plan <br />project is tentatively slated to begin in the early spring of 2005. <br />The County Attorney, with input from County staff, has revised the draft MOA. A copy of the <br />draft MOA with those revisions has been provided to the Town attorney for review and <br />consideration by Hillsborough. The revised draft is attached. <br />Generally, the revised draft separates out the future operation and maintenance issues for <br />the park, to be addressed in a subsequent second interlocal agreement between the Town <br />