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Loan program. Steve Brantley presented the following PowerPoint presentation: (1) Agriculture Economic Development Grants (summary dated 9/21/15) • Program became active after being approved by the BOCC in March 2015. Marketing campaign began. • 7 initial agriculture grants totaling $57,987.00 were recently approved in the program's first quarterly round of applicant reviews. • 1 application was denied. • Grant program is funded by up to $60,000.00 annually from Article 46 proceeds (one- quarter cent sales tax for economic development). • $120,276.26 is available for future agriculture business grants. Agriculture Grant Recipients 7 GRANT RECIPIENTS: • Boxcarr Farms • COLORFIELDS • Dawnbreaker Farms • Four Leaf Farm • Smith's Family Fun Farm • sweet retreat ORCHARD • Taylor Fish Farm Approved Agriculture Grants (initial quarterly review) Use of Grants by Recipients: • Taylor Fish Farm (Valee Taylor—fish processing) • BoxCarr Farm (Austin Genke —fencing for milk goats) • ColorFields Farm (Kelly Morrison — greenhouses) • Four Leaf Farm (Tim McCaller— greenhouses) • Smith Family Farm (Dawn Denson —well for irrigation) • Dawn Breaker Farms (Ben Grimes — small on-farm poultry processing equipment) • Sweet Retreat Orchards (Aniko Redmon — irrigation system) New Proposed Agriculture Grants (scheduled for second quarterly review in Nov.) • 2 new completed applications have been received. • 6 additional applications are being completed by applicants. • $60,000 in total requested awards is forecast for the upcoming second quarterly review of new applications. • Initial marketing round included radio and newspaper ads; most recent marketing effort had 800 post cards mailed out during the week of September 7; several phone calls and e-mail inquiries have been received and indicate several more applications will occur.