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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 11-05-1979 AGENDA ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS NOVEMBER 5, 1979 COMMISSIONERS ROOM, ORANGE COUNTY COURTHOUSE HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 10:00 A.M. 1. Does any Board member desire to modify this agenda? V 2. Does ny member of the audience desire to comment about: A. M tiers on this agenda? B. M tters not on this agenda? 3. The Clerk submits minutes of Board meetings held October 16, 1979 and October 22, 1979. V 4. The Cerokee County Board of Commissioners has suggested the counties in North Carolina enact a Resolution for Support of the Small Farmer which would be delivered to the United States Secretary of Agriculture an November 28th. ,f 5. The Department of Transportation recommends the Board approve the addition of Country sane Drive and Dickson Mill Road to the State Highway system, 6. A Resolution Authorizing the Use of Facsimile Signatures on certain checks and purchase orders. L,,- 7. A budget amendment to formally approve previous Board actions for bond education and E.M.S. temporary personnel . 8. A budget amendment to appropriate certain unappropriated School Bond funds remaining from the 1976 bond referendum. These funds represent the remaining balance of the $3,000,000 allocated to the County syster�. 9. A repglrt of the results of bidding for professional services to condu t a County-wide property revaluation: A. B er appraisal $289,500 B. Ferris $12.00 per parcel (phis is estimated to be $312,000) C. Jacobs $388,500 D. L. Roberts Kimbel $262,950 E. T M A $270,000 3 3 -2- 10. The Manager recommends a change order for $7,168 to the contract with Landmark, Inc. for certain map up-dating services be approved. Funds for this work would be provided through the Land Title Records Grant. v 11. The Tax Supervisor recommends the County execute a contract with Byer Appraisal for revaluation of all real property in Orange County. 12. Appointments: A. The term of ary Jane Gray on the area Dental Health Board as expired. As;. Gray is filling one of the required physician positions on this Board. B_ br. Morris A. Shiffman has submitted his resignation from the C unty Board of Health, C. Ore vacancy exists on the Chapel Hill Planning Board. 13• The County Planning Board, following a public hearing, has recommended the Board of County Commissioners amend sections 15.2.3, 8.1.3, 9.1.2 and 12.2 of the existing County zoning ordin nce. 14. The Orange County Rescue Squad has made a request for a supplementary appropriation of $5,000 from Orange County to assist them in meeting unexpected expenses. 15. The Tlx Supervisor recommends a 50% reduction in the tax valuation of cerltain property owned by Berini Brothers Investment Corporation. V16. The Planning Board recommends the Board of Commissioners approve a var?ante from the minimum lot size of 15,000 square feet (by approving a 13,000 square foot lot size) in the Oakdale Woods Subd Wsion. 17. Will the Board suggest items for the agenda of the ,point quarterly public hearing with the Planning Board to be conducted November 26? v 18 , di -L'55Gr � r/ /'?, N ec BQ f m.. (av a So vkwt'n A RESOLUTION FOR SUPPORT OF 111E SMALL FARMERS Orange County, North Carolina Board of Commissioners recognize the need to encourage the continuation of small family farming as a part of the agricultural system in the United State of America, WHEREAS, Consolidation in the agricultural sector has had and continues to have very serious consequences for people in both rural and urban America. With the decline of the family farm system, more and more individuals are forced into cities, adding to the problems that plague these centers, Meanwhile, rural, communities suffer because many small towns depend heavily for their social and economic health on the residents of surrounding farms; and WHEREAS, The basic function of the family farm system, of course, is to produce food, which it does cheaply, efficiently and in great abundance. There is no evidence that further Consolidation in agriculture would lead to significant increases either in efficiency or in production. It could mean significantly higher food prices however, As control of food production falls into fewer hands, the potential for price manipulation grows. Already, giant farms wield significant economic power and corporation control, through land ownership and contracting, about twenty-five percent of the country's agricultural output; and WHEREAS, The most recent USDA estimates place new farmer entry costs at nearly $500,000 for a medium-sized commercial grain or dairy operation. Increasingly, most farm land transactions involve expansion of acreage rather than new purchase of land. At the same time, land prices are inflating at an unprecedented rate across the nation. There has been a 100 percent increase in agricultural land prices over the past five years - in some areas of the country, the increase is even greater; and WHEREAS, Tax laws currently offer those people who actually earn the greatest portion of their income from non-farm sources significant benefits from the ownership of farmland_ This so-called "tax loss farming" permits these people to write off their farm losses and expenses from income earned elsewhere; and WHEREAS, It is not too late to turn the above trends around, to figure out ways of combining the best of innovative, highly productive farm technology with the traditional, diversity and resiliency of small and moderately-sized family farms; and NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY _ 8narri of rommissio, � that we do hereby seem the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State of America to enact a Family Farm Development Act that shall contain; (1) a strongly developed family farm system of agriculture is �an essential component to a healthy environmental and rural economy; (2) the economic health and well--being of farm communities and the stability of the farm economy as a whole depend on local ownership of farmland and on land ownership patterns that include small farms affordable to new and young farmers wishing to enter the practice of agriculture; (3) increasingly, the trend in farm areas is toward fewer and larger farms which, while not necessarily leading to increases in production, decreases the stability of farm communities, especially as absentee ownership by land speculators, Large agri-business enterprises, and other such entities replaces family .farm operations which traditionally support a deversified local economy, valued community institutions, and an agricultural community based upon family farms; (4) a strong family farm system of agriculture provides a widely dispersed mechanism of food and fiber production and marketing to insure continuous, local,reasonably-priced food supplies and an active demand for secondary services in rural communities; (5) government policies, including price supports, tares, loans, marketing programs, soil and water conservation programs, research, and education have a direct and substantial effect on the development, continuation, and maintenance of productive family farms; (6) as family farms have dwindled in number and expanded in size, the economy of rural communities has declined in part due to the impact of government policies which have contributed to (a) insta- bility of farm prices, (b) rising costs of land, (c) high costs and scarcity of energy-intensive farming inputs, (il) marketing problems, (e) limited financing for small and moderately-sized family farm:, and (f) research, technology, training, and education inappropriate to the conservation of soil and water quality and the development and maintenance of a productive family farm system of agriculture; (7) our agricultural land is a natural resource which has multiple uses including food and fiber production, habitat for fish and wild- life, a source of open space and clean water for public health, and a provider of vegetative cover necessary for the maintenance of clean air and the revitalization of a productive soil base; and (8) the Department of Agriculture needs to provide leadership by establishing family farm priorities, changing current programs, and establishing new programs in order to improve the quality of life of small and moderately-sized family farmers, to encourage the continuation of small and moderately-sized family farms, to create opportunities for the expansion of a family farming system of agriculture, and to support viable rural communities. BE IT FURTHER HESGLVED that Orange County, North Carolina Board of Crlmmi5s16nCI'S seek every assistance from JA iES B. HUNT, JR., Governor, and JAIIES A. GRAHAM, North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, to actively support this resolution by personally testifying before members of the United States Congress and the United States Secretary of Agriculture, MR, BOB BERGTAND. IN WITNESS WHEREOF and pursuant to the authority of Dri11G�e ijt.-Nol'ih-Garolina Board of Commissioners , this resolution is duly recorded this nth day of November 19 - I IL CTSHEET LEGISLATION iaG� National Assoclatlon of Counties 1735 New York Ave-N.W.Washington, D.C,20004(ZOZ) 785-9577 Bemard F.Hillenbrand,Executive Director AGRICULTURAL LAND PROTECTION ACT, H.R. 2551 FARMLAND PROTECTION ACT S. 795 BACKGROUND The Soil Conservation Service has reported that 3 million acres of all types of farmland are being converted to non-farm use annually and that 1 million acres is It farmland. Loss of agricultural land requires increased energy use to trans- port foodstuff. There has been a significant loss of topsoil in some major farming areas and growth in the yield per acre in the United States has peaked and leveled off. The continued loss of agricultural land will have major consequences for local and U.S. food supplies, world food needs and America's balance of trade. H.R. 2551 and S. 795 Both bills are an modest attempt to address the consequences of federal actions on ,agricultural land. H.R. 2551 as approved by the House Agriculture Subcommittee on the Family Farm, Rural Development and Special Studies, and S. 9795 as introduced would: (1) Require federal agency actions to be consistent or compatible with local, coun- ty and state agricultural land protection programs. It would require that federal agencies give agricultural values consideration along with enconomic, technical, and environmental factors in making decisions affecting farmland. This is an important approach for coor- dinating actions of local, state and federal governments. (2) Authorize the Department of Agriculture to provide technical assistance and demonstration grants to local, county and state governments to develop and carryout agri- cultural land protection programs. H.R. 2551 authorizes 50% matching grants at $15 million the 1st year, $25 million the 2nd, and $20 million the 3rd year; S. 795 authorizes 25% matching grants at $9 million the 1st year, $25 million the 2nd, and $15 million the 3rd. The purpose of the demonstration program is to test the new application of known methods; to develop combinations of methods, and to develop new methods such as new tax approaches, purchase and lease back, compensable regulation, and programs for strengthen- ing local agricultural economies. The choice of the farmland protection method, and the policies and elements of state and local programs would be decided by local and state elected officials. H.R. 2551 li- mits the program to funding not more than 2 projects researching any single method for retaining agricultural land. (over) (3) Establish a Farmland Review Study conducted by the Department of Agriculture th the involvement of state, local and private interests to study the impact of federal ` :tions and regulations on farmland; the relationship of farmland lass to t:hc economy and �rld food needs; and local and state experience under the demonstration gt•rnt prograr. It would provide useful information on current and new programs for protecting farmtanc'E. All but the review of demonstration programs are now subjects of the Administration's National Agricultural Lands Study. t 11 (4) Provide an absolute rivate property rights, orfinanywayr affecting nlocal yand ostate hibiting it from violating p authority. NAC Palic Strongly supports agricultural land protection legislation containing elements out- lined above. Status , H.R. 2551 will be considered and marked-up by the House of Agricultln,e CaRMittee on I Letters October 24, 1979 and is pending before 2551 should bec sent rto the amfollotiir�g�commlitt�.ec, mailgrams and telegrams supporting members: House Agriculture Committee Tom Harkin, Iowa William C. Wampler, fir. *Thomas S. Foley, Wash., Berkley, Bedell, Iowa Keith G. SebelILIS, KarlS, Chairman Glenn English, Okla Paul Findley, Ill. E de la Garza, Tex. Floyd J. Fithian, Ind. Steven D. Symms, Idaho -- Walter B. Jones. N.G. aeon E. Panetta, Cal. James P. (Jim) Johnson, Ed Jones, Tenn. Ike Shelton, Mo. Edward R. Madigan, 111, Dawson Mathis, Ga. Edward R t4. Heel:ler, f'`+a. George E. Brown, Jr., Calif'. Jerry Huckaby, La. dames et ,4. He ds, Vt. David R. Bowen, Miss. Dan Glickman, Kans. Charles Rase, N.C. Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Richard Kelly,, Fla, Gharl es E. Grass icy, Frederick W. Richmond, N.Y. Charles Whitley, H.C. Tom Hagedarn, Minn, Richard Nolan, Minn. Tony Coelho, Calif. James Weaver, Oreg. Thomas A. Daschle, S.D. E. Thomas Marlene, Mo. Alvin Baldus, Wis. Kent Hance, Tex, Beryl Anthony, Jr., Arl:. Larry Hopkins, Charles W. Stenholm, Teas Bill Thomas, Calif. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Patrick J. Leahy, Vt. -Jesse Helms, Nt.C, *Herman E. Talmadge, Ga., Edward Zorinsky, Neb. Milton R. Young H. Dak. Chairman John Melcher, Mont. Robert Dole, Kans, George McGovern, ton, Donald W. Stewart S.T. Hayakawa, Cal. Walter D. Huddleston, Ky. Richard Lugar, Ind. Richard (Dick) Stone, Fla. David Pryor, Ark. David L. Boren, Oka. Thad Cochran, I+liss, Rudy Boschwitx, Minn. Roger Jepsen, Iowa 10/79 a r^ r AGENDA ITEM n 6 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE USE OF FACSIMILE SIGNATURES Whereas, the Orange County Finance Department has acquired a check signing device, and Whereas, NC General State 159-28.1 provides for the use of fac- simile signatures of the type that will be used on this device, Now therefore be it resolved by the Orange County Board of Commissioners that the Finance Officer and Deputy Finance Officer may use facsimile signatures for signing checks and drafts on authorized accounts and for signing the preaudit certificate on purchase orders; and Be it further resolved that the Finance officer and the Deputy Finance officer are charged viith the Custody of the signature plates or stamps and that those designated officials and the sureties on their official bonds are liable for any illegal, improper or unauthorized use of those plates, or stamps; and Be it further resolved that this resolution be spread upon the minutes of the Orange County Board of Commissioners. Adopted this the 5th Day of November, 1979 AD. i f -J��Iy ORANGE COUNTY — ADOPTED 1979-80 BUDGET ORDINANCE AMENDMENT The 1979-80 Budget Ordinance of Orange County as adopted on June 302, 2979, and subsequently amended, is hereby amended as follovrs: Change the Appropriation for the following line items in the funds indicated: INCREASE '20 TOTAL (DEC_ R_ EASE) FUND,� 1TEM General (2,250) IO4,983 Manager - Personnel EMS -- Personnel 2,250 2,`G50 Schools Capital Fund 287,781 j 287,781 Orange Schools Change the revenues and fund balances estimated to be available to meet the foregoing appropriations in the funds indicated: INCREASE TO TOTAL FUND - RESOURCES (DECREASE). Schools Capital Fund 287,781 287,781 Fund Balance Appropriated Adopted this the 5th day of November 1979 AGENDA IT' M # 10 M E CENTRAL LAND TITLE RECORDS PROJECT I FR ORANGE COUNTY OM ROSCOE E.nEEVE Ka. 106 EAST MARGARET LANE HILLS80ROUGH. N. C.27279 LAND RECORDS MGM. �"�`rr�' GERALDINE H.WEATHERS ASST,REGISTER OF DEEDS DATE: October 29 ,1979 SUBJECT: proposed amendment to the contract with Landmark Inc. for the provision of mapping assitance to Orange County. T©: S . M. Gattis , County Manager The successful beginning of Orange County' s Central Land Title Records system testing and implementation phase depends upon the complete up-dating of all tax maps by January 1 , 1980. This is becau a the assignment of Parcel Identifier Numbers (PIN' s) to existing ad new parcels requires that all maps be up to date and , henceforth, kept up to date so that no PIN is ever assigned to two differ nt properties . At this time there is a large backlog of up-dating in the Tax dapping Office. This is the result of large demands upon the Tax Supervisor' s staff this year, and the traditional practice of map up-dating on a yearly basis . It is the opinion of our State consultants , the Tax Supervisor, and the Land Records Manager that with present staff, and under present conditions , the tax maps will not be fbily up-dated by January 1, 1980. This would severely delay the system' s testing and implementation phase and therefore threaten our completion deadline of July 1 , 1980 for the demonstra- tion phase . This is a deadline imposed by HUD on all grant projects . Our present contractor for the digitizing of parcels in Orange County, Landmark Inc . of Cary, proposes the following assistance in this matter. 1. That for the sum of $179. 20 per day, Landmark Inc . will provide two experienced mappers to work in the Orange County Tax Supervisor' s dapping Office for 8 hours per day until the up-dating is completed ; 2. That the proposed sum includes payment by Landmark to the snappers a salary of $6 . 00 per hour each , a transpor- tation allowance of .20t per mile , and a 70% overhead char a to Orange County to maintain the mapper ' s benefits and o cover Landmark ' s paperwork and staff adjustments . It is the opinion of our State consultants that with the two mappers and Patti Smith working on up-dating full time , it may take up to 40 working days to complete the task. This amount of time would incur a total expense to the Orange County project of $7 , 168. 00 . Our total budget for project mapping is $32 ,500 .00. Of that amount we have contracted for work in the amount of $20 ,000. 00. This leaves October 29, 1979 - S . M. Cattis Page 2 a present balance available for map up-dating of $12 ,500 . This m morandum is to request , on behalf of all project participants , that Landmark ' s offer be accepted, that the acceptance be in the form of an amendment to our present contract with Landmar , and that this be presented to the Board of Commissioners for approval . C. G. Williarr Laws , Tax Supervisor M f - AGEI4DA ITEM # 12 A 41 ORANGE-PERSON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER • Telephone 919-929-0471 Area�7ftice 333 McMasters Street Chapel Hilt,North Carolina 27514 �r' Area Director W.i=.. Baxter,Jr.. MEMORANDUM TO: Mary Lou �ouley, Clerk Orange Cot snty Board of Commissioners /, � FROM: William F. Baxter, Jr., Area Director LCD[ ` SUBJECT: Appointment of Orange County Representative to the OPC-MIiC Are Board This will confirm your recent request for information on':the Orange CountylRepresen.tatives to the OPC-MHC Area Board. The term of all Representatives are active except for one Dr. Mary ane (Gray, who needs to either be reappointed or a news J representative) appointed. I.C. General Statute 122-35.40(b)(2) states that there must be two physicians licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina on the Area Board. Dr. Gray is a licensed physician and if she were not reappointed we would need to have another physician appointed to conform with said statute. The length, of the appointment would be for 4 years. I WFB/srl I AGENDA ITEM i# 13 Revised 15.2.3 (Amendment Procedure): to read as follows, 10/15/79 If the amendment petition proposes an amendment to the zoning 10/29/79 map, the Zoning officer shall post on any affected property a notice of the public hearing at least 10 days prior to the date of said hearing. However, no posting of specific property by the Zoning officer shall be required if (a) the Zoning Ordinance is proposed to be extended or applied to an area of the County that is not subject to zoning at the time of the petition, or if (b) the proposed amendments to the Zoning Map are part of a comprehensive revision to the Zoning Ordinance that applies to at least one entire township in the County. If (a) and/or (b) above applies, the Zoning Officer shall post a minimum of four (,4) signs per area or , township, with locations of signs approved by the Planning '9oArd;. Revised 8.1.3 (Existing Extractive Uses): to read as follows; 9/17/79 Any extractive use whose operations were begun prior to the date the property was made subject to this ordinance which is located in a zoning district where extractive uses are not permitted shall be deemed a non-conforming use and shall. be subject to the provisions of Section 12 of this ordinance. Any extractive use operation begun prior to the date the property was made subject to this ordinance and which is located in a zoning district where extractive uses are permitted subject to the issuance of an extractive use permit of a limited extractive use permit shall be deemed a conforming use. Revised 9.1.2 ('Existing Extractive Use Processing Operations): to read as follows: 9/17/79 Any extractive use processing operation begun prior to the date the property was made subject to this ordinance which is located in a zoning district where extractive use processing operations are not permitted shall be deemed a non--conforming use and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 12 of this ordinance. Any extractive use processing operation begun prior to the date the property was made subject to this ordinance and which is located in a zoning district where extractive use processing operations are permitted subject to the issuance of an extractive use processing operations are permitted subject to the issuance of an extractive use processing permit or a limited extractive use permit shall be deemed a conforming use.. Revised 12.2 (Non-Conforming Uses): to react as follows: 9/17/79 Uses of land which do not conform to the requirements of this ordinance or amendments to it may not be enlarged or expanded; neither shall the use be intensified, nor altered, except in conformance with this ordinance. ATIAC� E ILNT A Oakdale Subdivision Planning Board Recommendations October 22, 1979 include: w 1. Site plan should be included for the multi--family lots and these conditions should be recorded as deed restrictions. a. number of dwelling units b. parking c. location of trash dumpsters d. area to remain .far open space or recreation uses 2. Provide utility easements along sewer lines. 3. The utility easements should allow for a pathway system. 4. The water system should be tied into the six inch (611) line on Murdock Road and the two inch (2") line on Oakdale through the use of a pressure valve. S. The water and sewer system should be approved by the Town of W_Ilsbarou;h before Final Plat approval. 6. Fire Hydrants must be provided all on 6" lines. 7. 3.-Turnarounds should be provided in the multi-family parking lots for fire trucks. B. tation impervious within 20 feet of the ac. 9, Fire truck access should be provided. 10. Drainage easements should be drawn on the plat to cover drainage under Oakdale Drive. 11. The easter cul-de-sac can be shortened, if the land goes into the open space area. K