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Exhibit A NORTH CAROLINA UTILITY EXTENSION FUND AGREEMENT ORANGE COUNTY THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into as of the day of , 19__,_. by and between the County of Orange, North Carolina, a political subdivisbn of the State of North Carolina having its principal office at 208 S. Cameron Street, Hillsborough, North Carolina, hereinafter sometimes referred to as "Orange County,' and Barber ~ Ross Company, Inc., a corporation having its princ~al office in , ___ , .._____ .hereinafter sometimes referred to as `Barber 8 Ross; WHEREAS, Barber b Ross intends to purchase the former Redman Mobile Home manufacturing site located in the Suckhorn Economic Development District at 200 Redman Crossing Road and renovate the facility to manufacture its millwork products; and WHEREAS. Barber & Ross proposes to connect the sanitary waste stream from the plant to the existing sanitary sewer line located approximately 2,000 feet east et the plant on Route 70; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Water and Sewer Policy, approved April 3, t989 and amended September 3, 1991, establishes "_.. a basis for Orange County's financial partlclpation in the provision of water and/or sewer services and facilities" to provide for economic development opportunities; and WHEREAS, by action taken at its June 30, 1999 meeting, the Orange County Board of Commissioners agreed to: 1j allow the extension of sewer service from the County's Efland sewer collection system by means of a new wastewater pumping station and force main, which Barber & Ross will constrtx:t to the applicable standards and approvals of the NC Division of Water (2uality and Orange County; and 2) accept ownership of tht3 portion of the wastewater torte main system which will bo installed in NCDOT rights-ot-way; and WHEREAS, on September 7, 1999, Orange County conducted a public hearing pursuant to North Carolina General Statute § 158-7_t, following publication of note of that public hearing at least ten (t0) days before the hearing was held, for the purpose of receiving public comment on this agreement; and WHEREAS, at that public hearing iMormatron was provided by or on behalf of Barber & Ross that Barber & Ross has commmed to do the following: 1) Upon c;omptetion of ppnstruGtien of the pumping station and farce main, Barber 8 Ross will provide to the Courtly an accounting of the total actual project cost, including documentation substantiating each expenditure. 2) Barber A Ross will complete its environmental assessment and site remediation for the property, including securing a browntieids agreement_ 3) Barber & Ross wilt invest between $t and $1.5 million in renovations to the Existing plant at 200 Redman Crossing Aoad, and install approximately $500,000 in equipment_ 4) Barber ~ Rvss wilt assure that the starting wages for aN positions created in Orange County will be at least 38 per hear and that, within two to three years, the proj~t wiil create two hundred jobs. 5) Barber 8 Ross will increase its starting wage rate from time to time to remain in compliance with the living wage starxiard in effect in Orange County. 6) Barber 8 Ross, as in its other plants, wiA provide health insurance for its employees and pay at feast fitty- ona percent of the costs of said insurance. 7) Barber & Ross agrees to tap in to a gravity sewer system serving the Buckhom Road Economic Development District when it becomes available, and pay any applicable tees. WHEREAS, by resolution adopted on __._, t9_, the Orange County Board of Commissioners made the determinations that: i) the Barber E Ross investment at the 200 Redman Crossing Road tacidty is expected to increase the Orange County tax base by an amount exceedh~g $stm,r)00. 2) Barber 8, Ross commits to a starting wage for all positions created in Orange County equal to at least S8.oo per hour and to increase the starting wage rate from time to time to remain in compliance with the living wage polity of Orange Gounry.