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8 MEMORANDUM TO: LOG Community Benefits Committee COPIES: LOG members and staff FROM: Paul Thames, PE, County Engineer DATE: January 6, 1999 SUBJECT: Rogers Road Community Benefit Survey and Analysis At its May 1998 meeting, the LOG received a report from the County Engineer on the preliminary cost estimates for providing community water service benefits to the Rogers Road community. The LOG was advised that the information used to develop those cost estimates were derived from: a) County property tax records (which did not provide adequate information on mobile homes); b) aerial photographs from 1987; and c) a preliminary water and sewer layout and cost report developed by Hazen and Sawyer for OWASA (based on unclear or incomplete instructions as to the scope and nature of the project). The LOG authorized Orange County to hire an intern to survey the Rogers Road community to obtain or verify all available information relative to the physical extent, boundaries and description of the neighborhood, the need in the neighborhood for community water service and the neighborhood social and economic demographics. The primary purpose of the survey was to provide information that would allow policy makers and staff to determine the extent a water system necessary to provide service to the neighborhood, the cost of that service and what portion of the cost for service would be provided from local government expenditures. The intern, Neil Templeton was hired by Orange County in September 1998. Using Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) equipment to obtain relatively precise building locations, survey forms and visual observations, he worked in and through the neighborhood and with neighborhood leaders and activists from late September through early December 1998. The survey forms used by Templeton were developed by the County Engineer using existing CDBG eligibility forms modified (with input from County Housing and Community Development and Environmental Health personnel) to accommodate data specific to the. Rogers Road neighborhood and the decision process for local government policy makers ultimately for authorizing and funding community benefits specific to provision of municipal water service. Specific questions and observations related to; 1) number (of occupants), age, race and income of individuals in each household; 2) accurate location of dwellings; 3) age, condition and type of dwelling; 4) whether or not a dwelling was owner occupied or otherwise; 5) existing well water quality complaints; 6) observed existing or potential water system (plumbing) or other physicaUtopographic (septic problems, inadequate drainage/runoff) problems that could impact water quality; and 7) the chronology of building and property habitation relative to development of the landfill. The information obtained by Templeton was summarized and presented by the County Engineer in an oral report to the Community Benefits subcommittee of the Landfill Owners Group in mid-December 1998. The benefits subcommittee requested that the information be tabularized and summarized in a written report with maps for its meeting in January 1999.