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or~D- ~o~o - o.~b ~~a~me,~-l- 3 Specialty Crops Grant Grant Project Ordinance Be it ordained by the Orange County Board of County Commissioners that pursuant to Section 13.2 of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, the following grant project is hereby adopted. Section 1. The program authorized is the Specialty Crops Grant as awarded to the Orange County Cooperative Extension and Economic Development departments by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. This grant will help to support the emerging needed at the PLANT@ Breeze Farm Enterprise Incubator Program. Specifically, the funds will be used to support training and field activities including sustainable soil and water management, insect, disease, and weed management, fruit and berry applied research, and business planning. Training supplies and hiring of a mentor farmer will allow for program expansion to better serve apprentice farmers and workshop participants. Section 2. The officers of the County are hereby directed to proceed with the grant project within the grant document and the budget contained herein. Section 3. The following revenue is anticipated to be available to complete this project: Specialty Crops Grant Program Funds (FY 09-10) Total $20, 000 $20,000 Section 4. There is a required County match of $19,035 for this grant, and will be fulfilled by $9,035 from in-kind staff support within Cooperative Extension and Economic Development and $10,000 from the annual Board of County Commissioner approved allocation to the Breeze Farm. Section 5. The following amount is appropriated for this project: Specialty Crops Grant Program (FY 09-10) $20, 000 Section 6. The finance officer is hereby directed to maintain within the grant project specific detailed accounting records to provide the accounting to the grantor agency required by the grant agreement and federal and state regulations. Section 7. Copies of this grant project ordinance shall be made available to the finance officer for direction in carrying out this project. Section 8. This ordinance supersedes all previous "Specialty Crops Grant" Grant Project Ordinances. Section 9. This project ordinance is in effect until December 31, 2010. g Adopted this 20th day of April 2010.