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11 <br /> • Advise the BOCC and County Commissioner on the recommended economic <br /> development uses of Article 46 proceeds from the '/4 cents sales tax revenues to <br /> fund various economic development programs. <br /> • Assist the Economic Development Department with the development of new <br /> marketing materials, ad campaigns and effective media strategy, and general <br /> "branding" efforts that best promote business recruitment to Orange County. <br /> • Remain involved with the County's agricultural economic development and <br /> business retention efforts by Orange County Cooperative Extension. <br /> What are the concerns or emerging issues your board has identified for the <br /> upcoming year that it plans to address, or wishes to bring to the Commissioners' <br /> attention? <br /> • Increase & diversify Orange County's overall tax base and employment <br /> opportunities among environmentally clean, high-tech and desirable firms <br /> through the recruitment of new businesses, and through the retention and <br /> expansion efforts with existing businesses. <br /> • Promote the attraction of environmentally clean, light manufacturing, distribution, <br /> corporate headquarters, commercial and retail businesses, and the required <br /> County infrastructure (zoning and utility services) that is needed to support these <br /> investments. <br /> • Improve the County's communication relations effort to emphasis the importance <br /> of economic development, endorsing the continuing utility infrastructure <br /> development of Orange County's 3 economic development districts (EDDs) and <br /> commercial/industrial transition activity nodes (CITANs) to attract future non- <br /> residential growth by private businesses that create new employment and <br /> property tax/retail sales tax revenue. <br /> • Support small business and agricultural related small business ventures, <br /> advocate for the LAUNCH Chapel Hill" innovation center", help administer the <br /> small business and agriculture grant programs, and offer an advisory role <br /> regarding the key uses of Article 46 funds (1/4 quarter cent sales tax proceeds <br /> for economic development) that promote the County's local economy. <br /> • Advocate for reasonable County property tax rates and economic development <br /> programs that best serve all residents of the County, and which promote the <br /> BOCC's social justice goals that provide shared economic prosperity for all. <br />