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22 �- 13 Attachment G Subcommittee on Inter- League Cooperation : Developing a Public - Private Partnership and Ensuring Cooperation Subcommittee . Charge : 1 . How to make public- private partnerships work in Orange County with regard to soccer fields . 2 . How to ensure cooperation among the various soccer organizations . 1 . Public- Private Partnerships Public entities : The public entity in this case is Orange County . To the degree that the Orange County Parks and Recreation Department or other government agencies must be involved , they may act as agents , but ultimately funding must come through the Orange County budget . Private entities : Rainbow , Triangle Futbol , Durham - Chapel Hill Strikers , YMCA , Hispanic league , and corporate sponsors . A . Model of Public Private Partnership One model of a public- private partnership is found in Wake County , where the county contracts with the Capital Area Soccer League ( CASL , a non - profit organization ) to run soccer in the county . The county makes the land available for fields and CASL develops the fields . CASL runs leagues for age groups ranging from small children through adults ( total about 17 , 000 participants ) and finances its activities through fees from players , numerous tournaments at its various soccer complexes , and fundraising from corporate sponsors . B . Model for Orange County We suggest a modified model for Orange County . While large soccer complexes for match play and tournaments would be the responsibility of private organizations , the county would make land available for practice soccer fields ( as near as possible to population centers ) . The private soccer organizations would jointly and cooperatively agree to lease these practice field sites for a nominal fee , develop these fields , and manage their use . 2 . Private soccer organization cooperation . We envision cooperation among the private organizations as being similar to a model currently in use , the " Mid -states Challenge Soccer League . " This league was formed three years ago by the Durham - Chapel Hill Strikers and Carolina United ( now Triangle Futbol ) , but all local soccer organizations were invited to send representatives to cooperatively manage the league . The league is not owned by any of the local organizations . Each soccer organization provides teams to play in the league and commits fields for league use on Sundays . Each organization sends representatives to set policy , to direct the scheduling of league games , and to coordinate with referees . We propose that soccer , organizations in Orange County be invited to send a representative to a body ( Joint Orange County Soccer) that would be responsible for coordination with the county on the development of practice soccer fields and in exchange for that development , obtain the right to the management and scheduling of those fields with reference to guidelines agreed to by the county .