Economic development incentives items in Orange County
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| Subject | Items |
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| Economic development incentives | 42 |
| Farmland and open space | 7 |
| Budget and appropriations | 6 |
| Housing and affordability | 6 |
| Comprehensive plan | 4 |
| Tax rate and revaluation | 4 |
| Appointments and personnel | 3 |
| Intergovernmental agreements | 3 |
| Land conversion and large development | 3 |
| Schools and education | 3 |
| Water and sewer | 3 |
| Bonds and debt | 2 |
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Chair DR Bryan reports on preliminary talks among some Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro hoteliers about how the Visitors Bureau might be organized in future and about possible changes to local occupancy tax statutes. The agenda notes these are early ideas that neither the bureau's board nor the county has endor…
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The board would appoint Sarah Bohlin to the Core Business Community seat on the Economic Development Advisory Board. No seats would remain vacant.
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Steven Raets presents on Sonark Farms and leads the board on a tour. The board is holding the meeting at the farm's event barn on Sonark Lane.
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Update from the committee reviewing agricultural economic development grant applications.Staff or committee report Economic development incentivesFarmland and open spaceGrants and outside funding
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Report from the county's economic development director.Received
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The draft budgets recommended by the Orange County manager and the Chapel Hill town manager, both pending approval by their governing boards.
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Economic impact, return on investment, and whether to bid for further large-scale destination events.
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A vacancy on the core business and grant committee, a review of the attendance policy, and the meeting schedule and time.
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Gordon Merklein, associate vice chancellor for real estate and campus enterprises at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Tiffany Lacey, executive director for real estate development, presented to the board.
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Durham Technical Community College president JB Buxton told the board the school hit its 2021 enrollment and completion goals and is building affordable housing in Durham, about a quarter of which will house students. Its Orange County campus addition is due to open in January 2027.
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Executive Director Laurie Paolicelli reported the Savannah Bananas game at Kenan Stadium is projected to bring $7 million to $10 million into the Triangle, with three more events in planning. She relayed a consultant's strategic-plan recommendations, and after members said the plan's February rollout moved too fast, t…Staff or committee report Economic development incentives
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Steve Brantley presented on the county's economic development goals, successes and challenges. Board members discussed the Buckhorn, Eno and Hillsborough economic development districts and ways to increase non-residential taxes and jobs.Presentation Economic development incentives
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The economic development director's report.Staff or committee report Economic development incentives
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Chris Cavanaugh of Magellan Strategies presented an overview of focus groups assessing the current state of tourism in Orange County and future priorities.Presentation Economic development incentives
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A performance-based incentive of up to $100,433 for CITEL America, a French manufacturer of electrical surge protection devices founded in Paris in 1937 and operating in the United States since 1985. The company is relocating its US office and manufacturing from Florida, citing more frequent extreme weather and the re…Approved unanimously
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Eight items: motor vehicle and property tax releases for thirty-nine taxpayers across forty-seven bills; twelve untimely exemption applications; denial of one refund request; a five-year renewal of the Fairview Park interlocal agreement with Hillsborough; a resolution letting Alamance County take ownership of a parcel…Approved unanimously
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A first draft summarizing the board's 2025 activities, due to the county commissioners by January 16. Members suggested adding land access policies and incentives, raised the lack of clear rules on drone use in rural areas, and proposed a tour for the commissioners to show farmland loss and conversion.Staff or committee report Economic development incentivesFarmland and open spaceLand conversion and large development
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A member flagged the county's new noise ordinance as potentially problematic because it measures violations by decibel level, which introduces many variables. Another member offered to share information on land access policies and incentives used in other states.
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The resolution declares the county's intent to join the state's Commercial Property Assessed Capital Expenditure program, which lets commercial property owners finance energy and water upgrades through a voluntary assessment, with no county funding involved.Approved as part of the consent agenda
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Consultant Crystal Morphis presented SWOT, cluster and workforce analysis and business survey results for the county's draft economic development strategic plan, including a proposal to fund industry incentives from general fund property sales tax revenue instead of the Article 46 fund.Presentation Economic development incentives
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The president of Visit Raleigh set out Wake County's tourism figures and its ten-year plan, including a $375 million convention centre expansion and amphitheatre and a 550-room Omni hotel carrying $75 million in incentives funded from occupancy tax.
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Incentive agreements deferred during the pandemic are now falling due, and each is structured differently. The board discussed the residential-to-commercial tax base split, which commissioners worked from 80-20 to 70-30 and believe has returned to 80-20, with residential values up 52 percent against commercial at 30.…
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A hotelier owning about half of Chapel Hill's hotel inventory has said publicly that the bureau is ineffective and not aligned with hotel interests, and should act as a hotel-focused sales arm. The bureau answered that its statutory mission, set by state legislation and county and town direction, is to promote the who…Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsEconomic development incentivesEthics and transparency
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The director reported FY24-25 grant activity and said the county manager has approved dropping the start-up grant. Members recommended focusing the programme on small businesses in the county.
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An update on commercial and industrial projects in Orange County.Staff or committee report Economic development incentives
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The bureau is investing in CVENT, which lists about 300,000 venues worldwide, buying banner advertising against Raleigh and Charlotte searches and a feature letting planners copy the bureau into a request for proposals.Presentation Economic development incentives
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A consultant-led strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats exercise. Strengths named were location, schools, the university, medical facilities, the Article 46 sales tax and arts; weaknesses were cost of living, housing, transportation, water and sewer, and few start-ups or labs. Members set goals including a l…
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A proposal that an interdepartmental staff group score projects and bring results to this board for comment rather than the board scoring, with 10 percent of funds set aside for repair and rehabilitation. Members raised that proximity incentives for goods, services and transport penalise unincorporated areas.Feedback by email; returning in April
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The hotel's general manager hosted the meeting.Presentation Economic development incentives
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Staff or committee report Economic development incentives
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The bureau's agency and sales director on marketing the area's hotels and meeting spaces to meeting planners.Presentation Economic development incentives
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A first review of subdivision amendments initiated by the commissioners and planning director, timed to coincide with expected changes to the comprehensive plan. Members discussed enforcing agricultural requirements against the bona fide farm exemption, incentives for conservation subdivisions beyond density bonuses,…
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The HOME consortium with Chapel Hill and Carrboro, landlord incentives including signing and referral bonuses and a risk mitigation fund, eviction diversion, and the civil rights programme handling fair housing and public accommodations cases. Emergency housing assistance has fallen from $15 million in pandemic fundin…
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The county has 687 farms averaging 77 acres, smaller than most counties. Only 2 percent report organic farming in the census while the county leads the state in voluntary organic sales, a gap staff put down to small farms not responding. Net cash farm income shows farming is not viable without off-farm income. Staff p…
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A presentation on twenty years of tourism growth in the county, covering hotel inventory and occupancy, and how the bureau generates leads through the CVENT platform and corporate and association business.Staff or committee report Economic development incentives
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The logo was last updated in 2011. Staff recommended waiting until the bureau bids for a new advertising agency in 2026. Members took design options away for a later meeting.No decisionDiscussion item Economic development incentives
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A consulting firm has been hired, with interviews, surveys and stakeholder sessions to follow and a final report to the commissioners toward the summer.Staff or committee report Economic development incentives
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A county planner briefed the board on the rural buffer, future land use, zoning and the economic development districts, with a public hearing expected in 2025 and engagement sessions in May or June.Board voted unanimously to state in its annual report that it wants to give input on the plan
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The county budget carries a property tax increase over three years alongside the revaluation. The county and Chapel Hill will not renew funding for LAUNCH Inc. The commissioners have asked for an analysis of the county's economic development incentive policy.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsEconomic development incentivesTax rate and revaluation
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UNC athletics presented seven options for the Smith Center: repair and maintain at a twenty-year cost of $150 million, renovate, or build new at one of five sites, being the current location, two other main-campus options, the Bowles parking lot, Odum Village, or satellite locations at the Friday Center, which would b…
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A year's report on the Family Success Alliance, which connects families below the poverty line to resources through a partner network, the Gateway initiative, the Navigator program and the Connections program. Navigators are certified community health workers trained in mental health first aid and in working with neur…
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Board members gave updates including a tour of the renovated Efland Fire Department and a Board of Health and Behavioral Health Subcommittee discussion of youth social media use. Commissioner McKee asked staff for a demographic breakdown, by area rather than address, of the county's 45 home foreclosures, and Chair Bed…
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