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Memo To: Board of Commissioners From: Jonathan Marshall, Deputy County Manager CC: Michael Downs, County Manager & Pam Dubois, Deputy County Manager Date: 10/25/2013 Re: Raging Ridge Road extension and bridge Staff from Cabarrus County, Cabarrus County Schools, the N.C. Department of Transportation and the Town of Harrisburg has continued to work on funding, planning and construction of the Raging Ridge Road extension and bridge project. We have made considerable progress in the past couple of months and it is time to provide an update to the Board, request direction, and specific actions to move forward on the project. The discussions to this point have related to funding, design and construction. The following are parts of the project with the responsible parry identified: • Cabarrus County has employed W.K. Dickson & Co., Inc. to design the road and provide preliminary design on the bridge. NCDOT has agreed to have their bridge design unit complete the bridge design at their cost. • NCDOT will compile all final plans, advertise the project for bid, award the construction contract and oversee all construction. • The funding for the project is shared between the NCDOT Division 10 office, General Assembly discretionary funding and Cabarrus County. The County part of the project has been set aside in a project fund and was derived from unused construction money from the Hickory Ridge Middle School and High School projects. • Cabarrus County is responsible for payment for property acquisition. The majority of the property is already in County ownership, but the area to the east and north of Back Creek on Stallings Road is in private ownership and we will need to acquire right -of -way. • The Town of Harrisburg will add this road and bridge to their maintenance system once the project is completed. In addition, they will complete any remaining sidewalks and street landscaping that is not done as part of the original project. • Cabarrus County Schools have been involved in all project and design discussions and have recently coordinated meetings with the principals of the two affected schools to update them. The following actions are requested to continue to advance this project: • Authorize County staff to initiate and complete a request for voluntary annexation into the Town of Harrisburg of the two school parcels. Once the additional right -of -way is acquired it will also need to be annexed into the town. These two actions will be necessary for the Town to assume maintenance of the road and bridge once they are completed. Attachment number 1 F -7 Page 88