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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 1, 2001 Action Agend Item No. ~_ SUBJECT: Affirmation of Process for Resolving the Disposition of the Greene Tract DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Draft Resolution Agreement to Amend the September 1999 Solid Waste Agreement Potential Framework for Determining the Disposition of the Greene Tract Definition ofi "Reimbursement Amount" 3/24/00 BOCC Letter to Town of Chapel Hill (Topic Discussed at 4/25/01 Work Session) INFORMATION CONTACT: John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-81$1 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider adopting a resolution affirming the general process to be used by Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill to resolve the disposition of the remaining 109 acres of the Greene Tract. BACKGROUND: The solid waste management interlacal agreement signed by the County and Towns in September 1999 and amended in March 2000 lays out parameters under which the Greene Tract owners will resolve the ultimate disposition of the 109 acres of that parcel that remain in joint ownership. The agreement also addresses how the Solid Waste/Landfill Operations Enterprise f=und is to be reimbursed if the property is put to uses that are not related to the salid waste enterprise. The agreement anticipates that the Greene Tract owners will reach agreement on the disposition of the property during a bargaining period that would conclude on April 17, 2002 (the two year anniversary of the effective date upon which Orange County assumed overall responsibility far solid waste management in Orange County). In preparation for the April 19, 2001 Assembly of Governments meeting, the County and Town Managers collaborated to prepare a potential framework for resolving the disposition of the Greene Tract. There was insufficient time for the governing boards to discuss the topic at that meeting, but the item was carried forward for BOCC discussion at their April 25 work session. The BOCC felt that the work group should be limited to two elected officials from each of the three governing boards, as members of all three boards are already well familiar with the issues involved with the Greene Tract. The BOCC also discussed accelerating the timetable far completion of the process. The Board discussed, but did not reach a conclusion, on whether, in addition to "open space" the general uses cited for the Greene Tract should include "affordable housing" and "schools", or a designation such as "non-solid waste public purposes".