HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 03-02-2021; 8-g - Robert & Pearl Seymour Center Corporate Water Easement and Dedication Letter with Orange Water and Sewer Authority (2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill) 1
ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: March 2, 2021
Action Agenda
Item No. 8-g
SUBJECT: Robert & Pearl Seymour Center Corporate Water Easement and Dedication
Letter with Orange Water and Sewer Authority (2551 Homestead Road, Chapel
Hill)
DEPARTMENT: Asset Management Services,
County Attorney, & Aging
ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dedication Letter Angel Barnes, 919.245.2628, Capital
Projects Manager
Steven Arndt, Asset Management
Services Director, 919.245.2658
Janice Tyler, 919.245.4255, Aging
Director
PURPOSE: To consider:
1) Approving a Corporate Water Easement and dedication letter with Orange Water and
Sewer Authority (OWASA) for the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center;
2) Authorizing the Chair to sign the Corporate Water Easement paperwork upon final County
Attorney review; and
3) Authorizing the County Manager to sign the Dedication Letter upon final County Attorney
review.
BACKGROUND: The Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) is requesting a Corporate
Water Easement and dedication letter for the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center facility located at
2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill. In 2020 the water system was improved to allow for the
roadway realignment into the campus. This easement is to grant access to complete the
construction of and to operate the water distribution system.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with granting this Corporate Water
Easement or dedication letter.
SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPACT: There are no Orange County Social Justice Goal impacts associated
with this item.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: The following Orange County Environmental Responsibility Goal
impact is applicable to this item:
• RESULTANT IMPACT ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND AIR QUALITY
Assess and where possible mitigate adverse impacts created to the natural resources of
the site and adjoining area. Minimize production of greenhouse gases.
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RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board
1) Approve a Corporate Water Easement and dedication letter with Orange Water and Sewer
Authority (OWASA) for the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center;
2) Authorize the Chair to sign the Corporate Water Easement paperwork upon final County
Attorney review; and
3) Authorize the County Manager to sign the Dedication letter upon final County Attorney
review.
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March 2, 2021
Orange Water & Sewer Authority
400 Jones Ferry Road
Carrboro, NC 27510
Re: Orange County Southern Human Services Center: Seymour Center
Renovation and Addition
Dear Sirs:
Orange County, the current owner of the lot located at 2551 Homestead Road,
according to Plat Book 1009 at Page 437 Orange County Registry, does hereby
dedicate and convey unto Orange Water and Sewer Authority, its successors
and assigns, all of its rights, title and interest in and to the water lines constructed
in accordance with plans titled Orange County Southern Human Services Center:
Seymour Center Renovation and Addition prepared by Grounded Engineering,
and dated 13 August 2019.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this letter is executed by the duly authorized officers of
Orange County and its corporate seal to be hereunto a fixed, all on the day and
year first above written.
(Name of Owner/ Company / Corporation)
ATTEST: By:
(Title) (Title)
NORTH CAROLINA
ORANGE COUNTY
I, , a Notary Public, hereby certify that (Attester)
personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged that (He / She) is
the (Position of Company / Corporation), a corporation, and that by authority
duly given as the act of the corporation, the foregoing instrument was signed in
its name by its (Title), sealed with its corporate seal, and attested as its
Secretary.
(Notary Public)
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