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6 <br /> 1 Economic Development & Property Tax Base (pie chart: page 13) <br /> 2 <br /> 3 Property Tax Base Profile by Jurisdiction —2017 (pie charts: page 14) <br /> 4 <br /> 5 Commissioner Rich referred to page 13, and said Mebane only gives back 2% to <br /> 6 Orange County, yet is receiving more Article 46 tax dollars than Chapel Hill. <br /> 7 Chair Dorosin said the money is still in Orange County. <br /> 8 Commissioner Rich said she is just concerned about this. <br /> 9 Chair Dorosin said the goal of the conversation is to talk about the EDDs, which is the <br /> 10 driver behind the disparity that Commissioner Rich is seeing. <br /> 11 Commissioner McKee said there is a difference between money spent in the City of <br /> 12 Mebane, versus money spent on a Mebane address. He said Morinaga is not a City of Mebane <br /> 13 project. <br /> 14 Commissioner Rich said Article 46 monies come from across the entire county. <br /> 15 Commissioner McKee said he understands, but does not want this conversation to be <br /> 16 that one town is getting more than another. <br /> 17 Chair Dorosin said the EDDs are what is driving how the Article 46 monies are spent. <br /> 18 Commissioner Price clarified that the tax base in Chapel Hill is 19%, which is 42% of the <br /> 19 County. <br /> 20 Travis Myren said no that would be all uses within Chapel Hill, which includes <br /> 21 everything. <br /> 22 <br /> 23 Economic Development & Property Tax Base (table: page 15) <br /> 24 <br /> 25 Economic Development & Property Tax Base (graph: page 16) <br /> 26 <br /> 27 EDD Status and Trends (chart: page 17) <br /> 28 <br /> 29 Commissioner Price asked if, upon completion, will the Eno EDD be transferred to <br /> 30 Durham? <br /> 31 Travis Myren said yes. He resumed the presentation: <br /> 32 <br /> 33 Encroaching Residential Development (map: page 18) <br /> 34 <br /> 35 Travis Myren said the discussion at the retreat was to pre-zone sites. He resumed the <br /> 36 presentation: <br /> 37 <br /> 38 Cost of Community Services (graphs: page 19) <br /> 39 • The cost of Community services in Orange County from 2006- revenue 1.00 and <br /> 40 expenditure is $1.32 in Orange County <br /> 41 • The Cost of Community Services in North Carolina <br /> 42 • Averages per $1.00 Tax Revenue- Residential: 1.26/ Commercial <br /> 43 <br /> 44 Industry Type/Investment/Tax Revenue (table: page 20) <br /> 45 <br /> 46 Commissioner Jacobs said the County's policy was not to recruit high water users, due <br /> 47 to limited capacity, and this was not acknowledged in the report. He said he would like the <br /> 48 Planning Department or the Commission for the Environment to reply to that aspect of what is <br /> 49 being discussed. <br /> 50 Travis Myren resumed the presentation: <br />