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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: April 17, 2000 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Contract with OWASA to Extend Main Water Lines to Historic Rogers Road <br /> Neighborhood <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 4/4/2000 County Engineer Memo Rod Visser or Paul Thames, ext 2300 <br /> Letter and Draft Agreement with OWASA <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approving a contract with the Orange Water and Sewer Authority <br /> (OWASA)for constructing extensions to existing OWASA water lines to serve designated <br /> properties of the historic Rogers Road neighborhood. <br /> BACKGROUND: Governing boards from all member governments of the Landfill Owners' <br /> Group (LOG) approved a series of benefits to be provided to neighborhoods in the vicinity of the <br /> existing landfill on Eubanks Road. In early 1999, a sub-committee of the LOG met and issued <br /> recommendations regarding the extension of water lines to serve various properties in and <br /> around the historic Rogers Road neighborhood. <br /> In accordance with the interlocal agreement governing the organization and structure of solid <br /> waste management in Orange County, it has become the responsibility of the County to <br /> implement the remaining landfill community benefit commitments. At its meeting on November <br /> 3, 1999, the BOCC adopted a resolution directing staff to begin working with OWASA to begin <br /> the process to design and construct the water lines that will serve the Rogers Road <br /> neighborhood. County and OWASA staff have conferred a number of times since then. <br /> OWASA has developed a proposal under which OWASA would contract for and manage this <br /> construction project. The attached draft contract between Orange County and OWASA <br /> provides the mechanism for constructing the water line extension project along with the <br /> necessary project administrative and engineering/design services as well. <br /> Details must still be worked out as to who qualifies for public financing of availability fees <br /> charged by OWASA, and how the miscellaneous on-site plumbing costs that will ultimately be <br /> incurred at each individual dwelling unit will be paid. Likewise, how those costs will be funded <br /> has yet to be determined. However, it has been the Board's stated intention to use reserves <br />