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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT <br />MEMORANDUM <br />T0: Board of Commissioners <br />John Link, County Manager <br />From: David Stancil, Environment and Resource Conservation Director <br />Date: November 6, 2002 <br />Re: Town of Carrboro Request for Funding - "Adams Tract" <br />In May of this year, the Town of Carrboro conveyed a request to the County for <br />$500,000 to serve as local government match .for a Clean Water Management <br />Trust Fund grant application. The Town's grant application requests $958,050 <br />from the State toward the purchase of a 28.9-acre tract along .Bolin Creek in <br />Carrboro known as the "Adams Tract." This letter is provided as Attachment 1. <br />In October, Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson and Alderman Alex Zaffron met with the <br />Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board of Commissioners to reiterate interest in this <br />request, and asked that the funds allocated in the 2001 Parks and Open Space <br />bond for Carrboro greenways be allocated toward this purchase. A letter to this <br />effect is provided as Attachment 2. The tract does contain land along Bolin Creek <br />that could be part of the eventual Bolin Creek Greenway. It also contains <br />approximately 10 acres that are within an identified N.C. Natural Heritage site. <br />To explore this project's potential fit with the Lands .Legacy program, I have <br />evaluated the proposal in light of how it meets the Joint Parks Guidelines and <br />Criteria (adopted by the Board in 1999 for the evaluation of potential projects). <br />These same criteria are incorporated into the Lands Legacy Program for <br />evaluating parkland and open space projects. <br />The relationship to the proposed "Planning Process for Joint County/Town Parks <br />and Open Space Projects" has not been explored, since this document relates to <br />facility development and has just been transmitted by the Intergovernmental <br />Parks (IP) Work Group for the Board's consideration. <br />Adopted Joint Parks Guidelines and Criteria <br />(Note: The Town has addressed its own review of how the project meets these criteria as part of <br />Attachment 1). <br />Environment and Resource Conservation <br />PO Box 8189 / 306-A Revere Road <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />(919) 245-2590 <br />