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179 The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus met in called session at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, September 29, 1982, at the County Courthouse in Concord, North Carolina, to consider the request from the Harrisburg Town Council for funding of interceptor sewer line. Present - Chairman: Ralph C. Bonds Commissioners: J. Harold Nash Troy R. Cook James W. Lentz Kenneth F. Payne The Board reviewed the request from the Harrisburg Town Council for the County to commit funds to construct the interceptor sewer line from the Rocky River Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant to the town limits of Harrisburg. It was noted that September 30 was the deadline for the County to submit an application to the State of North Carolina for hardship grant funding to help finance the construction of this sewer line. Engineers from Henningson, Durham & Richardson presented information relating to the size of the sewer lines and approximate cost for construction of the interceptor line from the wastewater treatment plant to Harrisburg. Mr. Paul Watson of Henningson, Durham & Richardson reviewed the proposed project as had been designed by Peirson & Whitman, Inc., under an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant which had been received by the Board of Light and Water Commissioners of the City of Concord. He reported that this proposed project would consist of a 12-inch interceptor line from Harrisburg to Rocky River, a pump station at Rocky River Road, a 6-inch force main, and a 15-inch interceptor line from Rocky River to the plant. Cost for this project was estimated at $1,491,000.00. Mayor Martha Melvin of Harrisburg was present to repeat her request that the County make a commitment to apply for hardship funding and to provide matching funds fsr the construction of the interceptor sewer line from the Rocky River Regional Waste~ater Treatment Plant to the town limits of Harrisburg. She expressed concern that the new design by Peirson & Whitman, Inc., now included a pump station which had not previously been included in the cost estimate of $1.4 million. Mayor Melvin stated that original plans had called for a gravity sewer line from Harrisburg to the wastewater treatment plant. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Payne, seconded by Commissioner Cook with Commissioners Payne, Cook, and Nash voting for and Chairman Bonds and Commissioner Lentz voting against, the Board adopted the following resolution. BE IT RESOLVED at a special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners on September 29, 1982, that the Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus hereby endorses the interceptor sewer line running from the Town of Harrisburg to the Rocky River Regional Wastewater Treatment facility and agrees to participate in the funding of the construction of said line; and fhe Board does hereby agree that it will appropriate the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) for the construction of said line in the 1983-1984 Budget. The substitute motion made by Commissioner Cook and seconded by Chairman Bonds to set aside one-half of all new tax base of industrial growth for water and sewer in Cabarrus County beginning in 1983 failed with Commissioner Cook and Chairman Bonds voting for and Commissioners Payne, Lentz, and Nash voting against. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Nash, seconded by Commissioner Payne and unanimously carried, the Board adopted the following resolution. WHEREAS, The North Carolina Clean Water Bond Act of 1971 has authorized the making of grants to aid eligible units of government in financing the cost of construction of wastewater treatment works, wastewater collection systems, and water supply systems, and WHEREAS, Cabarrus County has need for and intends to construct a waste- water collection system project described as Back Creek and Lower Rocky River Interceptor, force main and pump station, and WHEREAS, Cabarrus County intends to request State grant assistance for the project