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3 MEMORANDUM TO: County Commissioners COPIES: John Link, County Manager Geof Gledhill,County Attorney FROM: Paul Thames, PE, County Engineer DATE: June 18, 2002 SUBJECT: Sewer tap requested by Roy McAdoo of Efland As per the request of the BOCC, for a report related to providing a sewer tap from the Efland sewer system to property belonging to Roy McAdoo and his family,the following information is provided. Over the past several years Mr. McAdoo has been in contact with County staff on several occasions about acquiring a sewer tap for a property belonging to him and his family(William R. McAdoo heirs property) on Fuller Street in Efland. It has generally been Mr.McAdoo's contention that the County should have installed a tap for this property when the Efland sewer system was originally constructed in 1987/88,but unaccountably failed to do so. Mr. McAdoo has been advised that, according to the resolutions and rules adopted by the BOCC during the creation of the Efland sewer system, each property owner desiring a free tap onto the system was required to sign a document requesting that tap during the customer sign-up process that took place in 1985. He was also advised that County staff have been unable to find evidence that such a document ever existed for this particular parcel(tax map number 3.32.13.11). Mr.McAdoo has likewise been unable to produce such a document. Mr. McAdoo has produced a number of documents related to condemnation process utilized by the County to acquire an easement across the front of the property for the purpose of installing the sewer main in Fuller Street(the property lines went to the center of Fuller Street and beyond,requiring that the County acquire an easement even though the line was installed in the center of the street). It appears that Mr. McAdoo's primary contention is that a member of County staff or a community volunteer working on behalf of the County during the Efland sewer sign-up process in 1985 failed to properly advise the McAdoo family as to the necessities of sign-up process or otherwise failed to have a sewer request document executed by the heirs. Accordingly,Mr. McAdoo contends that the property should now receive a sewer tap at no cost since the County's error led to the tap not being installed during the sewer construction process. The piece of property in question is 2.6 acres according to the County's tax data. Under the existing tap fee structure, the cost of a tap would be approximately$6500,broken down as follows: $2475 Town of Hillsborough tap fee; 2.6 acres at$1000 per acre plus$600 per tap fee(total $3200)to Orange County; and$825 to construct the tap itself If I may provide additional information, please advise.