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5 <br /> <br /> <br />City of Mebane – Incentives, Annexation & Rezoning <br />• August 12, 2019 – Mebane Planning Board received the six () individual land owners’ <br />petition to request annexation, and rezoning (to M-2, light manufacturing & distribution), <br />and voted unanimously to endorse and forward to the Mebane City Council. <br />• September 9, 2019 - Mebane City Council is scheduled to meet and hold public <br />hearings which are expected to authorize the City’s approval of local incentives, and, <br />annexation and rezoning of the 6 adjacent parcels (totaling 172.79 acres) representing <br />Medline’s preferred site, which is located north of West Ten Road in the County’s <br />designated Buckhorn Economic Development District. <br /> <br />Benefits of Attracting Medline Industries to Orange County <br />• Initial creation of 105 professional & blue collar jobs in the first two (2) years, rising to <br />250 jobs by year #5, and eventually 500 - 600 jobs in 5 – 10 years, paying at or above <br />$15 per hour average wage with full health care, retirement, educational and <br />performance bonus benefits. <br />• Well-established national health care firm committed to building a green, <br />environmentally conscious LEED certified facility, and precedent to fill the large rooftop <br />with solar panels. <br />• Good potential to attract Medline’s in-house light manufacturing subsidiaries of medical <br />products on both sides of the West Ten Road site. Company routinely refers to 2-3 likely <br />vendors that may follow and co-locate. <br />• Medline’s $65.3 million investment would make the firm Orange County’s largest <br />manufacturing property taxpayer. <br />• This distribution operation is a low water user and does not put heavy manufacturing <br />related challenges on the environment. <br />• The site connects to the County’s Article 46-fund utility lines that were strategically <br />placed in the Buckhorn Economic Development District to attract non-residential new <br />business. <br />• Establishes another successful public/private partnership between Orange County and <br />the City of Mebane to grow the industrial tax base and new employment in a designated <br />“Rural Census Tract” area. <br />• Offers direct synergy with the County’s existing regional health care presence by UNC <br />Health Care, Duke Hospital, Veterans Administration Hospital, Wake Med & UNC Rex <br />Hospital spread among the Triangle area. <br /> <br />Other Local Governments, State of N.C. Agencies & Utility Partners <br />• N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) (will make road improvements to West <br />Ten Road) <br />• N.C. Community Colleges System & Durham Tech/Hillsborough Campus (will fund <br />technical training of employees, and strengthen the health care focus of the <br />Hillsborough campus) <br />• N.C. Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Partnership of <br />North Carolina (will provide state incentives, and act a liaison on workforce <br />development and pre-screening of applicants by NC Works, NCDOT road <br />improvements, and community college technical training of Medline’s new Orange <br />County employees.) <br />• City of Mebane (site annexation and rezoning, incentives & water/sewer service) <br />