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289 The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus met in recessed regular session at the County Courthouse in Concord, North Carolina, on Thursday, February 4, 1988, at 5:00 P.M. Present - Chairman: James W. Lentz Commissioners: Kenneth F. Payne William G. Hamby, Jr.. Martha H. Melvin R. Giles Moss The Board reviewed a proposal regarding the Coddle Creek Reservoir Project for presentation to the City of Concord. The City had refused the Concord-Cabarrus Utilities Proposal adopted by the Board at its meeting on January 25, 1988. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Melvin, seconded by Commissioner Payne with Commissioners Melvin, Payne, and Moss and Chairman Lentz voting for and Commissioner Hamby voting against, the Board by resolution adopted the follow- ing Coddle Creek Proposal. CABARRUS COUNTY CODDLE CREEK PROPOSAL Cabarrus County will pay the rate that it has been paying for the purchase of land in the Coddle Creek; namely, $2,000 an acre to the City of Concord for all City of Concord land in the Coddle Creek area. The County will pay $300,000 for the engineering work including surveying that the City of Concord paid to Peirson and Whitman for plans and specifications for the Coddle Creek impoundment but not pay anything for any hydroelectric study or pitometer studies that were done. The Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners will adopt a resolution that allocates available water to all County citizens whether they are in a city or town or outside a city or town using an equitable formula. The formula will be the population of any city or town--Concord, Kannapolis, Mt. Pleasant, and Harrisburg--over the total population of the county which includes city or town population times an unknown over the available water in the impoundment as a daily withdrawal availability. The formula as expressed would look something like this: If the population of Concord is 25,000 and the total population of the county is 100,000, it would be 25,000 over 100,000 times x over 29,000,000 gallons per day of available withdrawal capacity in the impoundment. ( 25~000 . x = 7,250,000) 100,000 29,000,000 The Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners' resolution will state that this amount of water as a minimum would be available for withdrawal on a daily basis by the particular city or town. This formula would be subject to change each year in that a city's or town's population could increase or decrease in a year as well the County's population could increase or decrease within the year and the daily withdrawal capacity from the lake could change from year to year. The Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners offers to enter into a contract with the City of Concord for the treatment of water for a five-year period. Cabarrus County will require that an annual audit be done by a firm specializ- ing in public utilities to audit the actual cost of water treatment on a unit gallon basis with the County paying on unit gallon cost basis plus ten percent (10%) profit to the City. This unit basis cost will not include any debt, capitalization or amortization cost for fixed assets. It will be the pure cost for treating water plus ten percent (10%). This annual unit cost for treating water would be subject to revision each year of the five-year contract, not the percentage of profit, just the unit cost after the determination is made by a firm specializing in doing cost analysis for public utilities. The County will not enter into an exclusive contract for the purchase of water because this exclusivity would certainly come in conflict with our investment in the water impoundment for which we are able to withdraw water in the Mt. Pleasant area. Mr. Charles D. McGinnis, County Manager, reported that he had received on this date a bid for the Jail Plumbing contract in the amount of $250,000.00