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1 <br /> <br />APPROVED 10/01/2019 <br />MINUTES <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />SPECIAL MEETING <br />September 10, 2019 <br />7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in special session on Tuesday, September <br />10, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Penny Rich and Commissioners Jamezetta <br />Bedford, Mark Dorosin, Sally Greene, Earl McKee, Mark Marcoplos, and Renee Price <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy County Manager <br />Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified <br />appropriately below) <br /> <br />Chair Rich called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. <br />Chair Rich said she joined Steve Brantley, Economic Development Director, and <br />Amanda Garner, Business Recruitment Economic Developer, at the Mebane meeting last night, <br />where they approved an incentive proposal and annexation of property. <br /> <br />1. Public Hearing Regarding an Economic Development Recruitment Incentive for <br />Medline Industries, Inc. (Project Tomorrow) <br />Steve Brantley, Economic Development Director, noted the following items at the <br />Commissioners’ places: <br />- the performance agreement (Attachment A) <br />- PowerPoint summary <br />- Public hearing newspaper notice (Attachment C) <br />- Abstract <br />- yellow sheet, replaces page 12 of 12 of exhibit B. The original contained a small typo, <br />which staff corrected, and the revised form is the yellow sheet. <br /> <br />Steve Brantley recognized Medline representative Dmitry Dukhan (Vice President Real <br />Estate Operations with Medline), Robert “Bob” Kievert (Director of Tax Compliance, Finance <br />and Audit with Medline), and Austin Watts (Vice President) with the site contractor Kimley-Horn. <br />Steve Brantley said Project Tomorrow came from the sundial at the Morehead <br />Planetarium. <br /> <br />PURPOSE: <br />To: <br />1) Receive and hold a public hearing on the issuance of a “performance-based” economic <br />development incentive by the County to a private company; and <br />2) Consider approval of the proposed 5-year performance-based incentive agreement, with <br />claw-back provisions, for the recruitment of Medline Industries’ distribution center to <br />Orange County, NC. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: Local and state government in North Carolina have the goal to promote <br />economic development by encouraging the location of new businesses and the expansion of