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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 13, 2001 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 2 <br />SUBJECT: Community Development Project for Rogers Road Waterloo Connections <br />DEPARTMENT: County ManagerTousing 8 PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />Community Development/Emnomic Development <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Draft Assistance Policy <br />Rod Visser or Paul Thames, eat 2300 <br />Application & Eligibility Cemficatlon Form <br />Tare Fikes, ad 2492 <br />Dianne Reid, eat 2326 <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 possible structure of a goa loan program for the funding of <br />connections between eligible properties and the main waterline that is currently being installed <br />by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority in the Rogers Road neighborhood. <br />BACKGROUND: At their work session on October 1, 2001, the County Commissioners <br />reviewed recommendations received from the Solid Waste Advisory Board regarding funding of <br />subsequent elements of the Rogers Road Neighborhood waterline project. The Board of <br />Commissioners had already appropriated in FY 2001 a total of $676,000 in the Solid <br />Waste /Landfill Operations Fund to cover the first phase of the project- the installation of water <br />mains in the Rogers Road community. The Orange Water and Sewer Authority is managing <br />that construction project under an agreement with the County that was approved by the BOCC <br />in April 2000. Construction of the water main is expected to be completed by January 2002. <br />The costs of the remaining elements of this public water supply project are associated with <br />individual residences availing themselves of the water made available to their community as a <br />result of the previously funded water main construction. These costs include OWASA <br />availability fees and water metere, plumbing from the water meter to the house, interior <br />plumbing, and payment of monthly water bills. The BOCC indicated at the October 1 work <br />session their desire to implement a grant program using resources of the County's General <br />Fund that would directly subsidize for eligible applicants the costs associated with installation of <br />laterals, availability fees, and meter fees. The BOCC does not intend that the program address <br />the costs of internal plumbing improvements or monthly OWASA water service charges. The <br />BOCC also expressed interest in considering establishment of s program that would provide <br />low- interest loans for laterals, meters, and availability fees to persons not meeting the means <br />test for grants. <br />