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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 4, 2002 Action Agenda Item No. 10.0 SUBJECT: Status Report for Rogers Road Weletline Connections DEPARTMENT: Housing 8 Community PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Nc __ Development ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Tare L. Flow, exit 2490 Project Area Map TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 96841501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 338-227-2031 PURPOSE: To receive a states report of the grant program for the funding of corrections between eligible properties and the mein waterline installed by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority in the Rogers Road neighborhood. BACKGROUND: The Board of Commissioners appropriated, in FY 2000-01, a total of $676,000 from the Solid Wastellandfill Operations Fund to finance the installation of water mains in the Rogers Road community. The Orange Water and Sewer Authority managed the construction project under an agreement with the County, and construction was completed in December2001. On February 5,2002,the BOCC approved a County-funded program that would provide grants to property owners In the Rogers Road welcome project target area. The grant would cover the costs associated with connecting individual residences to newly constructed water mains. These costs would include OWASA availability fees and water meters and the installation of lateral lines fmm the water meter to the house. Assistance is available for eligible properties for which the pertinent application materials are received no later than December 31,2004. The approved Assistance Policy for the Rogers Road Waterline Connection Program others grants for waterline connections for households with incomes below 80%of the area median income. The income limits are based on the HUD published FY 2002 Median Income of $71,300 for a family of four in the RelaigibOUrham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area The current income Ilmlte are provided in the chart below.