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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 10-22-1979 A G E N D A ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OCTOBER 22, 1979 CO MISSIONERS ROOM, ORANGE COUNTY COURTHOUSE HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 7:30 P.M. 1. Does any Board member desire to modify this agenda? ✓2. Does any member of the audience desire to address the Board concerning: A. Matters on this agenda? B. Matters not on this agenda? ✓3. The Clerk submits minutes of the Board's meeting of October 9, 1979 for consideration. ✓4. The Youth Services Needs Task Force recommends the Board authorize the use of $4,500 County JJDP funds for the continued funding of a liasion worker position at Janus House. Representatives of / Janus House will comment. 5. The Planning Director will review a memorandum dealing with possible future community development activities. 6. The Manager recommends Board approve a change order adding $2, 500 to a contract for digitizing certain land title records. Fun ing for this additional work will come from the land title records grant. 7. Suggested correspondence: With the University concerning outstanding services rendered by retiring Chancellor Ferebee Taylor. Commissioner Barnes Zwill comment. B. Does the Board wish to authorize the Chairman to write the appropri; party indicating the County might have an interest in acquiring Clear Water Lake as a County recreational facility. Commissioner Willhoit will comment. 8. The Board should suggest possible dates for a joint meeting with the Chapel Hill Town Council . I -2- " 9. The County Attorney will review possible options relating to Cable T. V. franchising open to the Board. 1/10. The Manager recommends the Board approve an hourly rate of $8.00 plus $11.00 per day travel for the person retained to provide assistance in improving emergency medical services. 11. Appointments: VA. The Board should name someone to serve on the Title XX Area Planning Advisory Committee Number 6. This position is currently filled by Commissioner Barnes. AGENDA ITE # 4 P. 0. Box 837 Chapel Hill, N. C. 27514 October 15, 1979 Mr. Richard. W(hitted, Chairman Orange Count_ Board of Commissioners Room No. 12 East Margare Lane Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 Dear Mr. Whi ted: At the May 3, 1979 meeting of the Orange. County Youth Ser- vices Needs ask Force, consideration was given to proposals for Juvenile Jus ice Delinquency Prevention Funds. Herein, are the recommendations of the Task Force regarding those proposals. It was unanimously recommended by the Task Force that the County Commissioners request $7,633.00 from JJDP to fund the Phillips' School Project for the coming year. The Task Force also unanimously supported a motion that the Task Force recommend to the Counter Commissioners that a portion of the remaining JJDP funds in thelamount of $4500.00 be used to fund the liaison worker position at anus House. The two aforementioned projects meet the priorities set by the Task Force in regard to residential placement and non-residential counseling for youth. Thank you for your continuing cooperation and support of the efforts of the Orange County Youth Services Needs Task Force in assessing appropriate community alternatives for Orange County Youth. Sincerely yours, 4 Ad-114 4f_M& � M. Harold Rogerson, Jr. , Chairman Orange County Youth Services Needs Task Force MHR:scm i AGENDA ITEM # 5 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT SILLSSOROUGs NORTH CAROLINA 27278 b,♦et9 a!b b ♦ w 17 s �'!+ Qat°fit♦ MEMORANDUM TO: S. M. Gattis, County Manager FROM: Planning Department DATE: October 17, 1979 RE: Future Community Development Activities The next application cycle for the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) requires that the pre-application be submitted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development Area Office in Greensboro (HUD) between December 24, 1979 and January 7, 1980. The pre-application stage is the most critical part of this grant application process. HUD gill evaluate each pre-application and rate each using specified criteria. All pre-applicants from the state are then ranked according to their rating score. Invitations to submit full-applications are sent to those cities and counties which rank the highest. Full-applications will be due in April or May, 1980. An invitation to submit a full-application means, in effect, that the grant has been approved and will be funded. The planning staff is able to do the pre-application and full--application. The amount of staff time necessary to complete this application process depends on the type of application prepared. The staff, of course, has a very busy work program which includes among other things, the development of a county land use plan and the revision of the zoning ordinance. However, considering the opportunity to bring a minimum of $500,000 and a maximum of $1,000,000 into Orange County through the Small Cities Program,we recommend that staff spend the necessary amount of time needed to prepare the applica- tions. At this time there are several policy decisions which need to be made concerning the County's involvement in the Small Cities Community Development Program: 1) Should the County continue its involvement in the CD Program? (i.e. Northern Fairview). Recommendation: The Planning Department recommends that the County continue its involvement. MII`10RA`dDUM Page 2 October 17, 1979 2) Which target area or areas should be selected? Recommendation: The planning staff recommends that the County continue the CD program in the Northern Fairview target area. Because HUD is very familiar with this area as a result of the current program, our chances of being funded are increased. Also, HUD has a considerable investment in providing infrastructure (water and sewer) to this area. HUD sees the provision of this infrastructure as a good basis from which to expand the community development effort into the areas of housing and neighborhood improvement. 3) Which community development activities should be involved? Recommendation: The activities to be included in the County's next application are determined by the federal regulations and guidelines that currently govern this program. After studying these regulations and attending HUD's recent briefing, it appears that housing rehabilitation needs-to be the essential element in the application. Any other activities should be secondary to housing rehabilitation and associated housing activities. The HUD staff stressed in the briefing and guidelines that activities such as road paving have little chance of being evaluated favorably. The County application could perhaps, contain a. limited amount of activities such as neighborhood cleanup, surface drainage improve- ment, community revitalization, and development of a small park. one of the other possible activity areas new this year is economic development. Since this is a new area for EUD they are recommend- ing that communities interested in developing projects in this area contact them to discuss their proposals. In summary, the planning staff recommends that the primary activity be housing rehabilitation, with other activities added, if feasible. 4) What type of application should be prepared?. Recommendation: Basically, there are two types of applications that Orange County could submit: Single-Purpose (grant limit $500,000) and One-year Comprehensive (grant limit $1,000,000).. The planning staff recommends postponing this decision until we have an opportunity to analyze the regulations more thoroughly, and the CD Task Force has a chance to meet. It appears that our chances of receiving a Single- Purpose grant are somewhat greater than those of receiving a Comprehensive grant. In any case, the base information which will need to be assembled is generally the same for each type of application. We have been informed by HUD that the grant expenditure threshold requirement is 75% at the date we submit a new application. This means that we must have spent 75% of our presen $500,000 grant,aor $375,000 by the time we finally submit our application. dates are December 24, 1979 until January 7, 1980. We have already spent $308,000. The attached figures and maps contained are a report outlining the total need of the County in developing cost figures that lead to our conclusions. slr AGENDA ITEM # 6 CENTRAL LAND TITLE RECORDS PROJECT ORANGE COUNTY - MEMO FROM 06 EAST MARGARET LANE HILLSBOROUGH,N.C.27276 ROSCOE E.REEVE (,rr LAND RECORDS MGR. GERALDINE H.WEATHERS DATE: October 16, 1979 ASST.REGISTER OF DEEDS Y SUBJECT: Needed Revision of Landmark Contract For The Digitizing of Parcels in Orange County TO: S. M. Gattis, County Manager Bill Laws, Patti Smith, Don Holloway, and I met with Landmark this morning. Our present contract with Landmark calls for the preparation of a paper overlay for verifying parcel identifier numbers which have been assigned to parcels in the county, and failed to specify that Landmark was responsible for entering the PIN's on our tax maps. _ Because the Landmark plotter stretches paper copies they cannot be used to assign PIN's. We have had to provide, therefore, our original mylar tax a ps which Landmark has been us copy for r PNeassignment:. The contract should It is essential that the PIN's be placed on the maps for parcel identification and the work of the mapping office. Landmark has stated they would be willing to: 1. Erase and redo incorrect coordinates on existing tax maps; 2. Provide grid-lines on maps for parcel prefix locations (individual parcels will only have last four (4) digits on them;) and, 3. Enter last four digits of PIN's on each parcel of tax maps. They are willing to do this for $2,500.00 or about $.08 per parcel. This price has been recommended by our State Consultants as extremel reasonable, "A bargain." It is estimated that it would cost us $6,000 - $8,000 to do this ourselves. Our budget for digitizing th parcels is $32,500.00. The Landmark contract is or $17,500.00. The 2,500.00 addition would bring the contract amount to $20,000.00 and leave a balance of $12,500.00. We seek your permission to revise the contract on both points and to authorize the $2,500.00 addition. CC: Bill Laws, Tax Supervisor Enclosure I AGENDA ITEM # 10f� EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES I ha a discussed with Ms. Garrett the possibility of her temporarily working with the County to improve emergency medical services. Neither of us can project how much time this task might consume. a agreed upon compensation based upon an hourly rate of $8.00 with an additional $11.00 per work day for travel . A work day is Oa7a i 8 hours. Thus, actual payments for any given work dount to $75.00. he Board initially approve funds for 30 working da s ( t the end of that period, if not before, we will ma a eport and make an additional request for funds if nece Ms. Garrett contemplates working two to three days per week on this project. Thus, a report would probably not be ready until sometime i early January. AGENDA ITEM , 11 A 7 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES JAMES B. HUNT. JR. 325 NORTH SALISBURY STREET GOVERNOR RALEIGH 27611 SARAH T. MORROW. M.D., M.P.H. • SECRETARY TELEPHONE October 18, 1979 919/133-4534 Mr. Sam R. Gatti�s�s Orange County Mahager 106 East Margaret Lane Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 Dear Mr. Gattis, Enclosed is the form which needs to be completed after the county commissioners select an individual to serve on Title XX Area Planning Advisory Committee Number 6 for the new prog�amyear (October 1 , 1979-September 30, 1980) . The first m eting of this committee is scheduled to be held on November 1 , 1979. Since the county1comnissioners may not make their formal nomination until after that date, you m y choose to send a representative to this meeting. Within the next • week, I will send you complete details on the time, place, and agenda for the meeting. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at 919-733-6371 . Sincerely, E. Lee Booth ELB/jd Enclosure 5