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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 17, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. Q -A <br />SUBJECT: Contract with OWASA to Extend Main Water Lines to Historic Rogers Road <br />Neighborhood <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />4/4/2000 County Engineer Memo <br />Letter and Draft Agreement with OWASA <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rod Visser or Paul Thames, ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider approving a contract with the Orange Water and Sewer Authority <br />(OWASA) for constructing extensions to existing OWASA water lines to serve designated <br />properties of the historic Rogers Road neighborhood. <br />BACKGROUND: Governing boards from all member governments of the Landfill Owners' <br />Group (LOG) approved a series of benefits to be provided to neighborhoods in the vicinity of the <br />existing landfill on Eubanks Road. In early 1999, asub-committee of the LOG met and issued <br />recommendations regarding the extension of water lines to serve various properties in and <br />around the historic Rogers Road neighborhood. <br />In accordance with the interlocal agreement governing the organization and structure of solid <br />waste management in Orange County, it has become the responsibility of the County to <br />implement the remaining landfill community benefit commitments. At its meeting on November <br />3, 1999, the BOCC adopted a resolution directing staff to begin working with OWASA to begin <br />the process to design and construct the water lines that will serve the Rogers Road <br />neighborhood. County and OWASA staff have conferred a number of times since then. <br />OWASA has developed a proposal under which OWASA would contract for and manage this <br />construction project. The attached draft contract between Orange County and OWASA <br />provides the mechanism for constructing the water line extension project along with the <br />necessary project administrative and engineering/design services as well. <br />Details must still be worked out as to who qualifies for public financing of availability fees <br />charged by OWASA, and how the miscellaneous on-site plumbing costs that will ultimately be <br />incurred at each individual dwelling unit will be paid. Likewise, how those costs will be funded <br />has yet to be determined. However, it has been the Board's stated intention to use reserves <br />