HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 12-11-2007-4tORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: December 11, 2007
Action Agenda
Item No. ~- -'~"'
SUBJECT: Authorization to Submit Grant Request to N.C. Agricultural Development and
Farmland Preservation Trust Fund
DEPARTMENT: ERCD, EDC, NRCS, PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No
Cooperative Extension
ATTACHMENT(S):
Trust Fund Overview
INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Stancil, 245-2598
Noah Ranells, 245-2330
PURPOSE: To consider authorizing staff to make grant applications to the North Carolina
Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund.
BACKGROUND: The new North Carolina Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation
Trust Fund has been awarded $8 million for agricultural conservation easements and
agricultural enterprises. The Trust Fund is accepting applications through December 14 for
these funds. Approximatelytwo-thirds of the funds are tentatively assigned to agricultural
conservation easements, and one-third to agricultural enterprises.
This is the first year the Trust Fund has had matching grants to award for easements since
2001, and the grant program for enterprise projects was revised.
This program offers an opportunity to decrease County matching funds, in that this program
requires only a 30% match from the County. Compounding this benefit, the State funds are
allowed to count toward the match for federal USDA Farm and Ranchland Protection funds. This
could lower the County's final cost on a future easement for 2008 to 15% of the total cost (as
compared to 50% with the USDA).
ERCD and NRCS staff have met to discuss this and have identified two potential projects that
could be submitted. Staff from EDC, Cooperative Extension and ERCD have also been working
on a possible enterprise funds grant project for the proposed Value-Added Shared Use Food
Processing Center proposed for the Orange Enterprises building on Valley Forge Road, and/or
the Farm Enterprise Incubator at the WC Breeze Family Farm Agricultural Extension &
Research Center. As a new grant program, the State is actively soliciting applications -but with
a short window for submittals. The easement and enterprise applications would not compete
against each other, as they are in different categories.
Staff proposes to apply for up to $600,000 toward an agricultural conservation easement, and
up to $300,000 for enterprise funds for the proposed Value-Added Shared Use Food Processing
Center at the Orange Enterprises building on Valley Forge Road and/or the Farm Enterprise
Incubator at the WC Breeze Family Farm Agricultural Extension & Research Center. The grant
awards would be announced in June 2008.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: The grants, if awarded, would require a match of 30% from the granting
agency. For the conservation easement, this would be $200,000. The Lands Legacy Program
currently has approximately $560,000 in remaining funds for conservation easements. The
proposed conservation easement would also be submitted for USDA matching funds, making
the County's portion of the total cost potentially as low as 15%.
Matching funds for the Value-Added Shared Use Food Processing Center and / or the Farm
Enterprise Incubator at the WC Breeze Family Farm Agricultural Extension & Research Center
would come from other potential funding sources to be identified for that project.
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board authorize staff to submit
the applications for grant funding by the December 14 deadline.
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