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16 <br /> Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools, and with staff from Durham Technical Community <br /> College — Hillsborough campus <br /> New Ideas for 2019 — building relationships among agencies <br /> • Explore closer liaison with County-wide marketing & programs & advertising <br /> • Increase the frequency of joint County & Towns' business prospect recruiting <br /> • Increase our mutual internal dialog and resources to support workforce development. <br /> Examples of Economic Development Collaboration Between the County & Towns <br /> Tourism Promotion — County's efforts on behalf of our Towns <br /> • Visitors Bureau advertises and promotes the Towns' local festivals in the County's visitor <br /> guides and materials, and via online social media programs and newsletters. <br /> • Visitors Bureau supports local major events that bring tourists to area, including Chapel <br /> Hill's TerraVITA event and the Ackland Art Museum, The Carrboro ArtsCenter, <br /> Hillsborough's Hog Day, the northern Orange County equestrian Polo Tournament, and <br /> the Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce's annual events. <br /> • Visitors Bureau staff works with OUR STATE magazine to run feature stories on tourism <br /> happenings in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough. <br /> • Visitors Bureau sales staff works with the Towns' local hotels on leads, and to refer <br /> business each week to those hotels with group meeting space. <br /> • Visitors Center staff make daily referrals to walk-in visitors who visit each day regarding <br /> local hotels, restaurants, shopping and tourism attractions. <br /> • Produces the Orange County Visitors Guide book featuring information on all 3 towns, <br /> and distributes at RDU Airport and "Visit NC" interstate Welcome Centers. <br /> • Prepares regular public relations support of the County's major tourism events occurring <br /> in all 3 towns, and advertises through PR Newswire. <br /> • Hosts frequent travel media press visitors and gives tours of the area. <br /> • Produces the "This is Tourism"segment on WCHL1360 radio to amplify local event <br /> happenings in all 3 towns. <br /> • Orange County stakeholders, which includes representatives from all 3 towns and UNC, <br /> sit on tourism's advisory board which meets monthly and reviews tourism programming <br /> and upcoming initiatives. <br /> Examples of Tourism Economic Development Collaboration Between the County & <br /> Towns <br /> The Orange County Arts Council actively supports artists in our Towns: <br /> • In partnership with the Hillsborough Arts Council, the Orange County Arts Council <br /> hosted the 2nd annual "Paint it Orange: Plein Air Paint-out & Wet Paint Sale", as a <br /> fundraiser for OCAC and HAC drawing artists from four states. <br /> • Served as part of leadership team in the coordination of the inaugural Orange County <br /> LocalFest, which attracted approximately 1,500 visitors. <br /> • Working in partnership with Orange County Department of Parks and Recreation to <br /> determine needs of new stage and event infrastructure in River Park, enabling the venue <br /> to host more large-scale events. <br /> • Sponsored the annual River Park Concert, which drew approximately 4,000 to <br /> Downtown Hillsborough. <br /> • Serving on Varsity Task Force to determine future of possibly performing arts venue in <br /> downtown Chapel Hill. <br /> Alderman Slade referred to the 20-25 year debt service, and asked if this is from today, <br /> or from when payments start. <br />