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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 13, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5_ ~ <br />SUBJECT: Budget Amendment #7 <br />DEPARTMENT: Budget PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Attachment 1, Budget as Amended <br /> Spreadsheet INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Attachment 2. Year-To-Date Budget Donna Dean, (919) 245-2151 <br /> Summary <br />Attachment 3. Conservation Easements <br /> Capital Project Ordinance <br />Attachment 4. Lands Legacy Capital <br /> Project Ordinance <br />Attachment 5. Healthy Carolinians <br /> Program Grant Project <br /> Ordinance <br />Attachment 6, Triangle SportsPlex Capital <br /> Project Ordinance <br />Pl1RPOSE: To approve budget, capital, and grant project ordinance amendments for fiscal year <br />2005-06, <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Environment and Resource Conservation Department <br />1. At its September 7, 2005 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved the <br />purchase of a conservation easement for land owned by Dr. Charles Keith to protect natural <br />area and open space associated with Pickard's Mountain and Morgan Creek (Bingham <br />Township), The purchase price of the conservation easement is $108,000 ($3,000 per <br />acre), with an additional $8,000 in estimated transaction costs, including a boundary survey, <br />The County casts (estimated at $116,000) would come from the Lands Legacy Opportunities <br />Fund. This budget amendment provides for the transfer of $116,000 from the Lands Legacy <br />Capital Project to the Conservation Easements Capital Project for the above stated purpose. <br />(See Attachment 3, Conservation Easements Capital Project Ordinance, and Attachmenf 4, <br />Lands Legacy Capital Project Ordinance) <br />