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County Department 1 Person ; D S fl figure 2: E E Structure y C01111ty of economic development structures. The Structure ment as a county function. As shown The region's thirteen counties are home to an array ment majority of these jurisdictions maintain economic develop while keeping in Figure 2, counties most frequently structure the service assn of auton'omyvetop s control. Nearly half of the region's cou tii zet o s Commission. The Commission structure benefits from a eg rofit org ment functions under private, not -for -p strategy and direction under each count art of a focal Chamber ment Corporations, Committees of 1o0 or p structured their economic development ear to be more active and focused either as Economic Develop ment Corporations, this is likely of Commerce. To a large extent, these organizations app organization; peers. In the case of Economic Develop to incorporate an than their public - sector p public commitment necessary attributable to the high degree of p its experience guiding public - private activity degr housed under the Chamber of Commerce benefit from e whereas those organizations of the Chamber, particularly institutional history ion from under Funding for economic development varies across the region Currently, county level funding wake and Granville, to more than $2.5 For fiscal year 2010, the region's thine an counties' eneral Fund dollars are $200,000 on the low end, in counties such as Moore, $ 23 per cap million in Durham (Figure 3)• budgeted at $ investment in economic development is most commonly used to supp ort economic development staff, infrastructure investmen s� incentive payments and marketing.