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s~ ,~. MINUTES ORANGE GOUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS SPECIAL MEETING JULY 7, 1988 The Orange County Board of Commissioners held a Special Meeting on July 7, 1988 at 7:30 p.m. in the courtroom of the old Post Office, Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the following purposes: 1. Adopt resolution authorizing submission of application for issuance of bonds to the Local Government Commission. 2. Hire Bond Counsel. 3. Make final decisions on amount and projects to be included in a bond issue. 4. Continuation items from the July S regular meeting. BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Shirley E. Marshall and Commissioners Moses Carey, Jr., Stephen Halkiotis, John Hartwell and Don Willhoit. ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill. STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers William T. Laws and Albert Kittrell, Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe and Finance Director Ellen Liston. The meeting was called to order by Chair Shirley E. Marshall. BOARD COMMENTS _-._ , ;. Commissioner Willhoit questioned verbiage on the Notice of Intent which ;; , made reference to the one million dollar water bonds which indicated in the purpose for residents of said County and one or more other public entities." =.=:.~~ Ellen Liston explained that it is possible that the County would not be the only one operating the water system and the bond counsel felt it important to Leave this option open. Geoffrey Gledhill further explained that the water could ultimately end up being transferred out of Orange County through OWASA or the City of Durham. If the reservoir was ever hooked up to the Hillsborough system, and because of the pipeline agreements that exist or could exist the water could move other places through public entities with OWASA being one and the City of Durham being another. At the present time there is a line that runs between OWASA and Hillsborough both ways and there could be in the future a line that runs between Hillsborough and Durham both ways. PUBLIC COMMENT Betty White, Vice President for public and Governmental Affairs for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce read a position paper from the budget committee. The committee supports the proposed thirty million dollar bond issue but suggested that the funds be allocated to provide a larger amount for the schools because of the urgency of their needs. Twenty five million is recommended for the schools with Chapel Hill-Carrboro receiving fifteen million and Orange County ten million. Four million was suggested for county facilities for the Tax and Records Building and Southern Human Services Building and one million for reservoir land acquisition.