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Community and Environment <br />Non - Departmentals <br />Blackwood, Twin Creeks (Cate) and Millhouse Operations $8,000 <br />These funds provide the necessary operating costs associated with utility service costs and <br />security system service at the farmhouses located at three future park sites. Building <br />stabilization and repair is funded from another source. <br />Business Incentive Payments $20,000 <br />Funds for annual incentive payments to AKG of America for the business creation in Orange <br />County and for meeting the expansion and recruitment goals, as per Agreement. Additional <br />property tax revenue will more than offset the incentive payment. <br />Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Master Plan $9,000 <br />These funds provide for a temporary or contract staff person for data collection, research, <br />graphics, and drafting of the Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Requested <br />increase is for plan completion, by a technical writer. In addition, there are certain demographics <br />not well represented in the 2012 -13 plan. Additional work is required to reach these <br />demographics. <br />Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro (DCHC) MPO $28,080 <br />The Durham - Chapel Hill- Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC -MPO) is the <br />regional organization responsible for transportation planning for the western part of the <br />Research Triangle area. The DCHC urbanized planning area covers all of Durham County, a <br />portion of Orange County including the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough, and <br />Northeast Chatham County. The DCHC MPO receives federal funds for planning purposes, <br />which require a 20% local match. Historically, the City of Durham has paid 100% of this match. <br />Beginning this budget year, all member agencies are being asked to share in these costs based <br />on population within their planning jurisdiction. <br />Farmer Foodshare $5,000 <br />Farmer Foodshare connects farm fresh food with agencies that serve the hungry. Formed by <br />the farmers and shoppers of the Carrboro Farmers' Market, the agency provides fresh food to <br />agencies, such as food pantries and local schools, that needed the healthiest possible food in <br />their programs. <br />Town of Hillsborough /Orange County Strategic Growth Plan Phase II $10,000 <br />In FY 2005 -06, the BOCC and Town of Hillsborough collaborated on the Town of <br />Hillsborough /Orange County Strategic Growth Plan Phase I, which was adopted by both <br />entities. Phase I set the growth management framework through a resolution to prompt work to <br />be done in Phase 11. Coordinated Planning Zones, annexation boundaries, land use patterns <br />and intensities and complementary resource and infrastructure plans and outreach are all part <br />of Phase 11. <br />QYJ <br />