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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 5. 1995 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item# <br /> SUBJECT: Farmland Preservation Workshops <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Planning Director X2592 <br /> Project Budget Proposal <br /> Draft Farmland Preservation Program Goal <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider funding for a series of Farmland Preservation Workshops. <br /> BACKGROUND: Since January of this year, the Agricultural Districts Advisory Board has <br /> focused its discussions on a more comprehensive approach to farmland <br /> preservation. To assist farmers and the general public in understanding <br /> the various options that are available, the Advisory Board wishes to <br /> conduct two workshops on October 4-5 in the Superior Courtroom. The <br /> workshops would begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at approximately 9:30 p.m. <br /> Although both workshops would be open to the public,a special invitation <br /> would be issued to farmers to attend the workshop on October 4. <br /> Presentations would be made by Bob Wagner,Director of State and Local <br /> Programs for the American Farmland Trust, Dr. Tom Daniels, Director <br /> of the Agricultural Preserve Board for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, <br /> and Gary Phillips, a local certified appraiser and realtor. Mr. Wagner <br /> would focus his discussion on the variety of programs being used <br /> nationally to preserve farmland.Dr.Daniels would then narrow the focus <br /> by discussing techniques in use in Lancaster County,recognized as one of <br /> the most successful programs in the nation. Mr. Phillips would then <br /> provide an example of how farmers have worked together in Chatham <br /> County to preserve farmland in a portion of that county. Each workshop <br /> would conclude with a panel discussion, including a question and answer <br /> period, involving the presenters and representatives from local <br /> agricultural agencies and the farm community. <br /> In addition to the workshops described above, the Agricultural Districts <br /> Advisory Board would like to conduct a series of training workshops for <br /> the staff'of the Planning Department,the Cooperative Extension Service, <br /> and the Natural Resource Conservation Service(formerly SCS).The topic <br />