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O <br />A meeting report is being prepared by the mediator for review by the meeting <br />participants before it is submitted to the County. <br />There was agreement to proceed with two separate farmers' markets. The <br />unincorporated association that has existed since 1987 will continue under the <br />name Hillsborough Farmers' Market. The incorporated group will start a new <br />farmers' market under a new name. Both groups look forward to serving the <br />community." <br />Liaison across the two groups, if problems should arise <br />Any of the officers of the incorporated group will be .available to respond to inquiries and <br />problem solve with any of the members of the unincorporated group's management team. <br />The representatives from both groups agreed to communicate with their own membership <br />in order to encourage that all members "take the high road." All will "do what is right." <br />If problems arise, leaders from both groups will communicate in order to reach a <br />resolution. <br />What is the end of the membership term for the unincorporated group? <br />Applications are due to the unincorporated group on January 15, 2008 for farms <br />interested in membership for next year (i.e., the 2008 season). <br />Applicants will be notified if their membership has been accepted by January 30, 2008. <br />The last day of membership in the unincorporated group for the current farmers market <br />season is February 2, 2008 at noon. <br />The annual meeting will be February 9, 2008. <br />How to help each other, or at least stay out of each other's way? <br />The timing, location and name of the two farmers' markets are issues around which the <br />two groups could have impacts upon each other: There are no agreements at this point <br />with respect to these issues (other than the incorporated group dissolving the organization <br />it created under the name Hillsborough Farmers Market as noted above). Both groups <br />expect the other to operate in ways that serve each group's own interests, which may <br />include sufficient separation in space or time to avoid confusing customers or "poaching" <br />from one another. The two groups "agreed to disagree" as to the importance of the <br />unincorporated group's 20-year history operating a farmers' market downtown in <br />deciding where or when either of the two markets would operate. <br />Grant request to the Hillsborough Tourism Board <br />Dispute Settlement Center of Orange County, Carrboro NC 5 <br />