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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 8 - ~ <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 16, 1999 <br />SUBJECT: Relocation of the High Rock Solid Waste Convenience Center <br />DEPARTMENT: Public Works <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Site Plans <br />Informational Notice <br />Memorandum to County Manager <br />Letter from Carl & Elizabeth Walters <br />PURPOSE: <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Wilbert McAdoo, Director of Public Works <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: - -ext. 2627 <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />To consider the proposed relocation of the High Rock Solid Waste Convenience 1000 feef <br />northwest from its present location on High Rock Road and to terminate the Saddle Club <br />Road lease effective December 1, 1999. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />At the Board of Commissioners' November 9 work session, Public Works Department staff <br />presented for information a request, submitted by the property owner, Carl Walters, Jr., to <br />relocate the existing High Rock Solid Waste Convenience. As a result of Mr. Walters' <br />request, the Public Works Department is proposing to relocate the existing High Rock <br />Solid Waste Convenience Center approximately 1000 feet northwest on High Rock Road <br />to a site also owned by Mr. Walters. <br />Orange County currently leases from Carl Walters the High Rock Solid Waste <br />Convenience Center property as well as another parcel on Saddle Club Road. <br />The High Rock Road lease originally commenced on December 21, 1987 and was <br />convert to one of the staffed Solid waste convenience centers in October 1989. The <br />most recent renewal lease expires on June 30, 2003. The monthly lease cost for this <br />site is currently $200. <br />^ The Saddle Club Road lease originally commenced on January 1, 1995, and expires on <br />December 31, 2005. The monthly lease amount is $ 200. (The Saddle Club Road site <br />was originally leased with the intent to establish a solid waste convenience center with <br />a stationary compactor rather than front-end containers). Both leases contain a <br />