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O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 9, 1992 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # J <br />SUBJECT: Visitor Bureau <br />DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br />Personnel and Economic <br />Development <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Moses Carey, Chair <br />None <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 establish a permanent time limited <br />positiort for -the Chapel Hill /Orange <br />County Visitor Bureau Director for a <br />period not to exceed one year from the <br />Director's appointment date. <br />BACKGROUND: Last year the Board of County Commissioners <br />established the Chapel Hill /Orange County <br />Visitor's Bureau and appointed an Interim <br />Board of Directors. The plans are to <br />incorporate the Bureau into a private non- <br />profit after an appropriate transition <br />period. During that period, accounting and <br />personnel systems will be established. <br />In the interim, the Visitor Bureau Director <br />will be a County employee. The permanent <br />time limited status is proposed so that the <br />Director will be covered by County benefit <br />plans. The salary range recommended is <br />that approved by the Interim Visitor Bureau <br />Board. <br />All funding for the program including salary <br />for the Director is generated by the one <br />