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BOARD OF ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BOCC) <br />GOALS — 2015 UPDATE <br />FOR DISCUSSIONS PURPOSES <br />m <br />GOALS/PRIORITIES <br />ONGOING EFFORTS <br />SPECIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS <br />marketing materials are ongoing, to include <br />criminal issues) were unwarranted and <br />compiling, updating and publishing a list of <br />should be eased. <br />available sites and buildings for prospects, <br />• The loan program's board of directors <br />designing illustrative site maps and diagrams. <br />responded by amending the loan program's <br />• Continue to work with Planning & Inspections <br />Policies & Procedures to incorporate the <br />department to assist Economic Development in <br />BOCC's proposed amendments to the loan <br />cooperation to provide GIS -based mapping <br />program's current Policies & Procedures. <br />assistance. These marketing documents are <br />Orange County Economic Development <br />generated in -house at low cost, and distributed <br />aggressively markets the loan program <br />to prospective business investors and site <br />with a goal to increase overall loan <br />selection consultants in printed form and via the <br />activity, and expand the diversity of <br />Economic Development office's web site. <br />applicants and borrowers. <br />• In early 2011, that included the County's <br />financial assistance to successfully retain <br />the on -site facility expansion (90 new jobs <br />and $3 million in new investment) for the <br />local German -owned heavy earthmoving <br />equipment parts industry in Mebane, <br />Orange County named "AKG North <br />America ". <br />• This project was the BOCC's first <br />awarding of a "performance- based" <br />incentive agreement ($100,000.00 total, to <br />be paid over a 5 -year period to AKG) to <br />encourage industrial economic <br />development retention and expansion. <br />• In 2013 -2014, The County used Article 46 <br />funds to financially participate with the <br />Town of Carrboro to repair a failing sewer <br />line. The recent repair of that sewer line <br />has since removed the threat of a shutdown <br />that could have negatively impacted over <br />20 downtown businesses employing over <br />