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APPROVED 6/7/2011 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS BUDGET WORK SESSION April 7, 2011 The Orange County Board of Commissioners for a Budget Work Session on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Link Government Services Center in Hillsborough, N.C. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Bernadette Pelissier and Commissioners Valerie Foushee, Alice M. Gordon, Barry Jacobs, Pam Hemminger, Earl McKee and Steve Yuhasz COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: John Roberts COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff inembers will be identified appropriately below) 1. Work Session to discuss the Manaqer's Recommended 2011-16 Capital Investment Plan (CIP) Michael Talbert said that the County Commissioners saw the first draft of this on March 17th and staff made some corrections and improvements. He went over the changes. He said that this is a conservative outlook on economic growth over the next five years. Many of the projects in the CIP will require debt financing and at some point the Board of County Commissioners may want to consider general obligation bonds. Regarding changes to the plan, there is updated information from Planning and Engineering about more economic development that can occur over the next five years. There are three new phases to projects that have been added, and the total of these is $5.5 million: $3.2 forthe Mebane/Buckorn EDD (Phases 3 and 4), $1,000,150 forthe Hillsborough EDD, and $1,000,150 for the Eno EDD. The only financial obligation the County has is for the first year and other than that, it is only a plan. He went through the changes. On page 1, Overview, Water& Sewer Utilities, this now reflects total projects of $15.7 million. This is up $5.5 million from where it was before because of the three EDD projects. On page 4, there is an additional debt service for the Buckhorn EDD, phase 3 and 4, and Efland Sewer flow to Mebane. This additional debt service is a little over$1 million if every project occurs on the same timeline. On page 5 is the summary for the utilities. This is where the three new projects appear. Chair Pelissier said that she was under the impression that there would be water and sewer for the entire Hillsborough EDD. She asked for clarification. Frank Clifton said that the issue is getting sewer south of the interstate because they will have to go under the interstate to get to the other side. Commissioner Jacobs asked how the County Commissioners are to regard the comments that were made previously regarding background commentary on CIP projects. He said that in looking at the minutes, he brought up issues that were nowhere reflected in this document that he thought there was agreement on. Chair Pelissier said that the expectation is that comments will be included, but she wants to make sure that there is a majority that agrees with the comments before something changes. She suggested that when someone raises an issue, there can be a question whether everyone concurs.