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60 <br /> • Assist with and provide advice to Orange County's small business loan <br /> program. <br /> • Assist the Economic Development department with the development of new <br /> marketing materials, ad campaigns and effective media, and general <br /> "branding" efforts that promote business recruitment to Orange County. <br /> • Help to advise the Economic Development department, the County <br /> Manager's Office and BOCC on appropriate levels of financial incentives for a <br /> variety of potential recruitment projects, and best uses of Article 46 funding. <br /> • Become more involved with the County's agriculture economic development <br /> & business retention efforts. <br /> What are the concerns or emerging issues your board has identified for the <br /> upcoming year that it plans to address or bring to the Commissioners' <br /> attention? <br /> • Increase & diversify Orange County's overall tax base and employment <br /> opportunities among clean, high-tech and desirable firms through the <br /> recruitment of new businesses, and from retention and expansion efforts with <br /> existing businesses. <br /> • Promote the addition of clean, light manufacturing, warehouse operations, <br /> corporate headquarters, commercial and retail businesses. <br /> • Improve the County's communication relations effort regarding the importance <br /> of economic development, endorsing the continuing utility infrastructure <br /> development of Orange County's 3 economic development districts (EDDs) & <br /> commercial transition nodes (CITANs). <br /> • Support small business and agricultural related small business ventures, the <br /> LAUNCH Chapel Hill" innovation center", help administer the small business <br /> loan and grant programs, and play an advisory role in the key uses of Article <br /> 46 funds (1/4 quarter cent sales tax proceeds for economic development) that <br /> generally promotes the County's local economy. <br /> • Advocate for reasonable County property tax rates and programs that best <br /> serve the residents of the County, while at the same time promotes social <br /> justice in economic development access for all. <br />