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O <br />MINUTES <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Joint Meeting <br />Of <br />Orange County/Chatham County/Chapel Hill /Carrboro/OWASA/UNC <br />August 14, 2007 <br />6.00 p.m. <br />Southern Human Services Center <br />The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Joint <br />Meeting with the Chair~ce Chair from the Chatham Courrty Board of Commissioners, Chapel <br />Hill Town Mayor and Town Manager, Chair~ce Chair/Executive Director of OWASA, and a <br />UNC representative on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. at the Southem Human Services <br />Center in Chapel Hill. N.C. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr., and Vice-Chair Bany Jacobs <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon and Clerk to the Board Donna <br />S. Baker (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br />CHATHAM COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Vice-Chair George Lucier <br />CHATHAM COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Charlie Home and Public Works <br />Director David Hughes <br />TOWN OF PITTSBORO MAYOR: Randolph Voller <br />TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT: Mayor Kevin Foy and Town <br />Manager Roger Stancil <br />TOWN OF CARRBORO REPRESENTATIVES: Dan Coleman, Board of Aldermen <br />OWASA REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT: OWASA Board Chair Mac Clarke, Vice-Chair <br />Randy Kabrick, and Executive Director Ed Kerwin <br />UNC REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT: Carolyn Efland, Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus <br />Services <br />1. Dinner/Welcome and Introductions <br />Chair Carey said that this meeting grew out of a joint meeting of the Chatham and <br />Orange County Commissioners in which it was decided to ask the stakeholders to meet and to <br />find out if there is interest to move forward to meet as functional work groups to address spec <br />issues that are of mutual concern. <br />Introductions were made. <br />Chair Carey said that staff was available to answer any questions but no formal <br />presentations would be made. <br />2. Reoional Water/Watershed Protection Issues <br />• Shared Use of OWASA Jordan Lake Intake site <br />Chatham County Public Works Director David Hughes said that Chatham County is <br />expanding its water plant. Presently, the allocation is six million gallons per day from Jordan <br />Lake, and there have .been discussions with the Division of Water Resources to expand this <br />allocation for Chatham County. To do this, it has to be opened to surrounding jurisdictions that <br />also need allocations from Jordan Lake. He said that this is a long process and there will have <br />to be cooperation from a lot of the stakeholders in order to get more of an allocation from Jordan <br />