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--------------- 1 L.- 11• yll l::.i0 Q'1 did 4u uua Proposed Goals (As Approved by Board of Directors) PLANNING,ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LAND[JSE 1. Economic Development Support legislation to help counties promote and accommodate economic development, including: State assistance to fund construction of water and sewer facilities; • State financial assistance to compensate local governments for the cost of water and sewer lines relocated because of state highway improvement projects; • State appropriations to support local economic development initiatives and programs,including state income tax credits for companies that employ persons moving from welfare to work; and • Language to assure that County Commissioners are involved in decision making involving local and/or regional economic development initiatives sand programs. (1995 goal,amended). In 1995, the Association pursued a goal stating support for several specifi c economic development initiatives. The Intergovernmental Relations Steering Comic ittee eliminated several of these from the language of the goal. The IGR Committee also added the:fourth bullet dealing with county corrmissioncr involvement in economic development,noting the proliferation of regional initiatives driven from the state level. The Committee also added the provision Cm the third bullet)dealing with income tax credits for eomr ames that employ former welfare recipients. The Legislative Goals Committee added emphasis to the first two bullets by separating them(they had been a single sub paragraph). G.S. 136- 27.1, authorizing the Department of Transportation to pay"the non bettet meat cost for the relocation of water and sewer lines"was amended in 1994 and 1995 to add county rural water systems,sanitary districts organized under Chapter 130A and water systems organized pursuant to Chapter 162A and later sold to municipalities to the local entities entitled to receive DOT payments for relocation. Prior to these amendments, those entities entitled to receive payments included small municipalities(5500 car below in population),non profit water or sewer associations or corporations, and Prater systems organized pursuant to Chapter 162A of the General Statues.