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• Business Investment Grant <br />(Pending BOCC Final Approval - Small Grants up to $1,500, and, Large <br />Grants from $1,501 - $10,000) <br />• Agriculture Economic Development Grant <br />(Pending BOCC Final Approval - Small Grants up to $1,000, and Large <br />Grants from $1,001 - $10,000) <br />Morinaga America Foods, Inc. <br />• Construction of the company's initial 100,000 square foot candy <br />manufacturing facility is proceeding, with completion planned for mid - <br />2015, and an Open House ceremony set for late September or October. <br />Town of Hillsborough leadership and elected officials will be invited to <br />that event. <br />• The company recently held a job fair at the Waterstone campus of <br />Durham Tech, and took applications from 850 interested candidates who <br />participated in 21 separate information sessions. <br />Agriculture Summit <br />• The annual Orange County Agriculture Summit was recently held on <br />March 16th in Hillsborough at the County's newly renovated Whitted <br />meeting facility. <br />Orange County Arts Commission <br />• The Orange County Arts Commission, currently based in Chapel Hill, is <br />physically relocating this month to Hillsborough and will be housed within <br />the Economic Development Department. <br />Staff Changes within Orange County Economic Development <br />• Mike Ortosky has been hired as the County's full -time "Agriculture <br />Economic Developer" to assist County residents engaged in farming and <br />related agriculture initiatives. Mr. Ortosky will help lead the formation of <br />a proposed food council, serve as a liaison with tenants of the Piedmont <br />Food and Agriculture Facility (PFAP), and pursue related agricultural <br />goals that benefit farmers in Hillsborough and Orange County. <br />• Yvonne Scarlett, a 15 -year staff member of the County agency, and a <br />long -time Hillsborough resident, has been promoted to fulfill a new <br />"business retention" professional role recently created by the Board of <br />Commissioners. The business retention economic developer task will <br />assist existing businesses, large and small, to encourage their retention <br />and expansion here in the County. <br />• One vacancy will soon be filled to hire a "business recruitment economic <br />developer" to assist the department director with the attraction of new <br />business prospects in manufacturing, commercial and retail <br />development. <br />