ORD-2019-006 - Request for Funding Assistance – Triangle Land Conservancy, and Approval of Budget Amendment #6-B

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1 ORD-2019-006 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 7, 2019 Action Agenda Item No. 8-h SUBJECT: Request for Funding Assistance — Triangle Land Conservancy, and Approval of Budget Amendment #6-B DEPARTMENT: Environment, Agriculture, Parks & Recreation (DEAPR) ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1. Letter from Triangle Land David Stancil, 245-2510 Conservancy Kim Livingston, 245-2514 2. Location Map 3. Site Map 4. Orange County Grant Agreement PURPOSE: To consider providing $109,260 in grant funding assistance to Triangle Land Conservancy for the purchase of a 60-acre property adjoining Triangle Land Conservancy's George and Julia Brumley Family Nature Preserve, and approve Budget Amendment #6-B. BACKGROUND: Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) is planning to purchase a 60-acre property located on University Station Road just south of Old NC 10 adjacent to its 613-acre George and Julia Brumley Family Nature Preserve (Eno Township). This property is owned by Buzzlitz, LLC of Durham, and will become an expansion of the preserve. The acquisition of this property by TLC will protect the existing forested buffer located immediately adjacent to a tributary of Stony Creek that forms the border between the Buzzlitz property and Brumley properties. Once the tributary leaves the property, it travels to Stony Creek, which bisects TLC's Brumley Preserve, then enters the Lower Eno 1.8 miles downstream. The entirely forested property also adds protection to the identified significant natural heritage area (Stony Creek Spring) in the 487-acre Duke Forest just one mile west of the property and adjacent to TLC's Brumley Preserve. Acquisition of the Buzzlitz property adds to the potential for developing a 25-mile open space corridor that would extend north from Jordan Lake to Eno River State Park, and offers opportunities for developing trail and wildlife connections from the Brumley tract to Eno River State Park. The actual funds disbursement would not occur until TLC has procured all necessary funds for the purchase of the property. A grant agreement addressing the terms of the funding is attached.