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projected completion in early 2016. ■ Orange County Sportsplex lobby project—This is on schedule and should be completed by October 31 tn ■ Orange County Sportsplex mezzanine project—This project was approved by the Board as part of 2014-15 budget, and the formal request for qualifications will occur this fall. ■ Southern Human Services Center campus project—This project is in the pre- development planning and discussion phase, and it will come back to board with project scope recommendations and a request to engage the project design team. 10. County Attorney's Report John Roberts referred to the previous question from Commissioner Rich about outside vendors paying a living wage. He said he was able to look up the statute, and he read it as follows: § 153A-449. Contracts with private entities; contractors must use E-Verify. (a) Authority. -A county may contract with and appropriate money to any person, association, or corporation, in order to carry out any public purpose that the county is authorized by law to engage in. A county may not require a private contractor under this section to abide by any restriction that the county could not impose on all employers in the county, such as paying minimum wage or providing paid sick leave to its employees, as a condition of bidding on a contract. John Roberts said this only limits the County from requiring contractors to abide by whatever miscellaneous terms the County chose to require. He said the early inspection that was mentioned would be fine under these terms. John Roberts said the state legislature adjourned two weeks ago. He said he usually does a legislative report, but he is having surgery next week on his arm. He will provide this report as soon as he can. John Roberts referred to the press release that was put out today. He encouraged the Board to move forward with caution since there is an open federal investigation. He said he has been told that the investigation has been closed, but a decision letter has not been issued. He does not perceive the same level of risk at this point. . 11. Appointments - NONE 12. Board Comments Commissioner porosin said he was at the Orange County ABC board meeting this month, and they are having record breaking sales. He said there are some controls by state statute regarding how much money the ABC can retain. He said it is likely that the ABC board will bump up against those caps. He asked the Chair and Vice Chair to reach out to this board for a greater amount of that money to come back to the County. Commissioner Price said she would like to see a detailed report on the small business loan program. She would like to see information on demographics, gender, age and reasons for denial, to see how successful this program is and what may need to be done.