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f <br /> B 15o <br /> office. He referred to the benefits to employers seeking job <br /> applicants through the Employment Security Commission, not Least the <br /> 100 day no-fault benefit. Members of the EDC agreed that employers <br /> should be encouraged to make more use of the Employment Security <br /> Commission, and asked the Director to contact the Chapel HILL and <br /> Hillsborough Chambers, as well as the Mebane Business Association, <br /> asking the Chambers to inform their members about the benefits of <br /> using the Employment Security .Commission for recruiting employees. <br /> 0 Sylvia Price <br /> reported that she had meetings concerning the possibility of offering <br /> a dislocated workers program to those persons displaced by the <br /> closure of Hillsborough Textile Mill. She said the program would be <br /> likely to include on-the-job training, as well as the possibility of <br /> special courses provided by Durham Tech in new skills for these <br /> workers. She said she was hoping that the job training programis for <br /> the displaced mill workers could be Located in Hillsborough, and <br /> could start early in 1987, to run while the workers were 'still <br /> eligible for unemployment compensation. She added that a survey is <br /> being taken amongst the mill workers to ascertain their interest in <br /> training, and that staff at Guilford Mills are being very cooperative <br /> and accommodating in assisting with this survey. She said that in <br /> general Guilford Mills are being more helpful than Cone Mills were at <br /> a comparable stage in the closure process. <br /> PB S. Members discussed that fact that UPS has been Looking for <br /> a Location in Orange County, near Chapel Hilt for 16 months. Because <br /> of zoning restrictions, and in some cases being unable to reach a <br /> deal on the land, they still may not have settled. They want to <br /> build 15-20,000 square feet on 4 acres, and the choice of Location is <br /> determined by sophisticated formulas of their own reflecting their <br /> currant delivery patterns in Orange County. Maury Klein stated that <br /> he felt that their refusal to consider seriously a Hillsborough <br /> location was ignoring the cost attached to nit. being here, given <br /> their lack of penetration of the northern Orange market, and the <br /> development which will be here in the future. <br /> Isotechnologies. Inc. Sylvia Price reported that she had Last <br /> week visited Isotechnologies in their excellent new building. She <br /> said they now have 30 employees, a faster rate of growth than they <br /> had expected at the time they were applying for the industrial <br /> revenue bond this time Last year. The reason for the employment <br /> growth is increased sales and production. <br /> Greenwich Mills. Sylvia Price announced that she is planning <br /> to arrange a visit to Greenwich Mills in Mebane in the neer future, <br /> and that if members of the EDC would like to accompany her, she would <br /> be glad. <br /> Pre-Zoning. Sylvia Price stated that Ken Thompson had informed <br /> her that the issue of pre-zoning was discussed at an informal work <br /> session between the Orange County Board of Commissioners and the <br />