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<br />..~ <br />NORTH CAROLINA <br />UTILITY EXTENSION FUND AGREEMENT <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into as of the ~ day of 19~by and <br />between the County of Orange, North Carolina, a political subdivision of the Stat of North Carolina having its <br />principal office at 208 S. Cameron Street, Hillsborough, North Carolina, hereinafter sometimes referred to as <br />"Orange County," and Barber Ross Company, Ifle-, a Vif°~d~a corporation having its principal <br />office in Leesbktr~ i~ iM" ,hereinafter sometimes referred to as 'Barber & Ross;" <br />WHEREAS, Barber & Ross intends to purchase the former Redman Mobile Home manufacturing site <br />located in the Buckhorn Economic Development District at 200 Redman Crossing Road and renovate the facility <br />to manufacture its millwork products; and <br />WHEREAS, Barber & Ross proposes to connect the sanitary waste stream from the plant to the <br />existing sanitary sewer line located approximately 2,000 feet east of the plant on Route 70; and <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Water and Sewer Policy, approved April 3, 1989 and amended <br />~~ <br />September 3, 1991, establishes ... a basis for Orange Countys financial participation in the provision of water <br />and/or sewer services and facilities" to provide for economic development opportunities; and <br />WHEREAS, by action taken at its June 30, 1999 meeting, the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />agreed to: 1) allow the extension of sewer service from the County's Efland sewer collection system by means <br />of a new wastewater pumping station and force main, which Barber & Ross will construct to the applicable <br />standards and approvals of the NC Division of Water Quality and Orange County; and 2) accept ownership of <br />the portion of the wastewater force main system which will be installed in NCDOT rights-of-way; and <br />WHEREAS, on September 7, 1999, Orange County conducted a public hearing pursuant to North <br />Carolina General Statute § 158-7.1, following publication of notice of that public hearing at least ten (10) days <br />before the hearing was held, for the purpose of receiving public comment on this agreement; and <br />WHEREAS, at that public hearing information was provided by or on behalf of Barber & Ross that <br />Barber & Ross has committed to do the following: <br />1) Upon completion of construction of the pumping station and force main, Barber & Ross will provide to the <br />County an accounting of the total actual project cost, including documentation substantiating each <br />expenditure. <br />2) Barber & Ross will complete its environmental assessment and site remediation for the property, including <br />securing a brownfields agreement. <br />3) Barber & Ross will invest between $1 and $1.5 million in renovations to the existing plant at 200 Redman <br />Crossing Road, and install approximately $500,000 in equipment. <br />4) Barber & Ross will assure that the starting wages for all positions created in Orange County will be at least <br />$8 per hour and that, within two to three years, the project will create two hundred jobs. <br />5) Barber & Ross will increase its starting wage rate from time to time to remain in compliance with the living <br />wage standard in effect in Orange County. <br />6) Barber & Ross, as in its other plants, will provide health insurance for its employees and pay at least fifty- <br />one percent of the costs of said insurance. <br />7) Barber & Ross agrees to tap in to a gravity sewer system serving the Buckhorn Road Economic <br />Development District when it becomes available, and pay any applicable fees. <br />WHEREAS, by resolution adopted on ~_ , 19~, the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners made the determinations that: <br />1) the Barber & Ross investment at the 200 Redman Crossing Road facility is expected to increase the <br />Orange County tax base by an amount exceeding $500,000. <br />2) Barber & Ross commits to a starting wage for all positions created in Orange County equal to at least $8.00 <br />per hour and to increase the starting wage rate from time to time to remain in compliance with the living <br />wage policy of Orange County. <br />