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<br />Chapel HilUOrange County Visitors Bureau 22 <br />501 Franklin Street • Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 <br />Telephone: 919-968-2064 • Toll-free: 888-968-2060 • Faac 919-968-2062 <br />E-mail: lpaolicelli@visitchayelhill o~ <br />September 20, 2009 <br />To: Bazbaza Baker; Facilitator of Heritage Center visioning task force <br />Cc: Lucinda Munger, Director for Orange County Library <br />Fr: Laurie Paolicelli, Director, Visitors Bureau <br />Re: .Business and Reseazch Consultant next step <br />Bazbaza: <br />Thank you for your leadership of the task force/steering committee which is researching the idea <br />of a Heritage Center/Genealogical Archive space in Orange County, NC. <br />Under your leadership, members of this steering committee have been chazged with developing a <br />recommendation and plan to be presented at an October commissioners meeting. The plan will <br />include details as to how and where such a proposed facility would be established as well as how <br />it would be sustained long term. <br />Our steering committee agreed that we have a sense of the parameters required for such an <br />endeavor and we need to proceed towazds hiring a contracted project coordinator to be <br />responsible for Devaluating available sites for the Heritage Center/Museum; 2) figuring out what <br />types of equipmenbspecial azeas might be needed to prepaze, store, and make available materials <br />in an azchival appropriate environment; 3) figuring out what the staffing needs would be for the <br />type of services identified by the work group; and 4) identifying possible funding sources. <br />Our committee estimates that the archivist's time and report will cost an estimated $4,850.00. <br />At its September 16 business meeting, the board of directors of the Chapel Hill/Orange County <br />Visitors Bureau approved the expenditure of approximately $5,000 for funds to hire a <br />business/mazket professional to conduct an independent assessment of what we have to work with <br />locally; and how that compares to other communities that have carved out aself-sustaining, <br />tourism/ archives-focused Heritage style free-standing agency (Johnston County is an example). <br />This person will work for the Visitors Bureau and have access to its office and equipment if <br />necessary. <br />The next step is developing an RFP and finding the right person to fulfill this work. <br />Thank you for your leadership on this project and I am happy to be able to contribute solid <br />reseazch that will help us position this Heritage Center in a manner that meets the findings of the <br />needs assessment that will be conducted by this consultant. <br />Let me know how we can help moving forwazd. <br />Supporting tourism in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough North Carolina <br />