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O R A N G E C O U N T Y
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: OCTOBER 19, 1993
Action A enda
Item # -D
SUBJECT: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDING BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No
ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT:
MANAGER'S OFFICE, EXTENSION 2300
RESOLUTION
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough - 732-8181 '
Durham - 688-7331
Mebane - 227-2031
Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501
PURPOSE: To consider taking action to authorize the release of
funds that were appropriated to Councils of Government
by the General Assembly.
BACKGROUND: A sum of $48, 015 was appropriated to each COG to
assist local governments in their economic development
activities. Of the amount, $7, 350.89 is due the COG
based on Orange County's population.
RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board approve the
attached resolution and authorize Chair to sign.
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TRIANGLE J COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
World October 4, 1993
C I a s s 100 Park Drive, P.O.Box 12276
Research Triangle Park,NC 27709
Chairman Moses Carey 919.549.0551 inx:919.549.9390
K e i i ° "Orange County Board of Commissioners
344 Warren Way
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Dear Chairman Carey:
The Triangle J Council of Governments has received official
notification that funds are again available to assist the
economic development programs of this and the other
seventeen regions . Attached is a copy of the
accomplishments for the past year with the work plan for
this coming year. The 1993 General Assembly again approved
$48, 015 for each Council of Governments for each year of the
biennium. Your government is asked to release its share
(based on population) to the Council of Governments . A copy
of the region' s list of population and funds is attached as
is a copy of Senate Bill 27 of Chapter 321 .
To this end you are asked to place on your next board agenda
a resolution to release your share of the economic
development monies from the State Budget Office to the
Triangle J Council of Governments . You are reminded that
just as with past years ' economic development funds, money
not released reverts to the general fund; it is not made
available directly to local governments . The resolution to
release funds is enclosed. When approved, please return the
original, signed, sealed (if possible) and fully executed
document to the Council of Governments at the earliest
possible date. Retain a copy for your files .
Should you wish a representative of the Council of
Governments to attend the board meeting to provide
additional information or respond to questions, please
contact Pamela Davison. Your cooperation and continued
support are gratefully acknowledged and appreciated.
Sincerely,
Susan Lassiter, Chairman
Triangle J Council of Governments
Enclosures
cc : TJCOG Delegate
Manager
DATE a
RESOLUTION 93/94
ITEM
BY
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ORANGE COUNTY
WHEREAS, in North Carolina the Lead Regional Organizations, as
voluntary organizations serving municipal and county governments, have
established productive working relationships with the cities and counties across
the state: and
WHEREAS, many counties and cities continue to need assistance in
pursuing economic and community development opportunities, but federal
assistance in the form of intergovernmental revenues has been severely curtailed
in recent years; and
WHEREAS, the 1993 General Assembly recognized this need through the
appropriation of $864,270 to help the Lead Regional Organizations assist local
governments with grant applications, economic development, community
development, and to support local industrialdevelopment activities and other
activities as deemed appropriate by their local governments; and
WHEREAS, these funds are not intended to be used for payment of
members' dues or assessments to Lead Regional Organization or to supplant
funds appropriated by the member governments; and
WHEREAS, in the event that a request is not made by a unit of
government for release of these funds to our Regional Council, the available
funds will revert to the State's General Funds; and
WHEREAS, in Region J funds in the amount of $48,015 will be used to
carry out the economic development plan approved by the COG Board of
Delegates and especially to improve the economy of the counties and towns of
the Region by strengthening ties to and consequently benefits of the Research
Triangle Park.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the ORANGE COUNTY
requests the release of its $7,350.89 share of these funds to the Triangle J Council
of Governments at the earliest possible time in accordance with the provisions of
Chapter 321, Senate Bill 27, section 39 of the 1993 Session Laws.
Adopted this /9i day of a_,yWer, 1993at
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Triangle J Council of Governments
Economic Development Report to Local Governments
Summary of 1992/93 Accomplishments
September, 1993
I. Activities to Internationalize the Region's Economy
1. Supported the Research Triangle World Trade Center as corporate secretary and
executive board member lobbied legislature for educational program funds (in Gov.
Hunt's budget), and capital funds. Assisted in obtaining other public support, served
on nominating committee, scheduled Annual Board meeting.
2. Maintained world trade contacts via the North Carolina World Trade Center,re-
elected State Board Secretary. Advisor for the State NCWTA Annual Conference.
NCWTA received the 1992 Presidential "EXPORT'Award at the Annual Conference
in Charlotte,May 12.
3. Serve as the grantee for Foreign Trade Zone #93; numerous presentations,recruited
new Board members, attended FTZ training at National Association of Foreign Trade
Zones. Prepared FTZ annual report. Continuing the negotiations with a potential
operator,with the airport and with a transport company for a secondary site for a
distribution/warehousing capacity. The goal is to activate a full service general
purpose Foreign Trade Zone as indicated in the NON-TRANSFERABLE grant from the
US Government.
4. Obtained activation of Subzone 93 A, Mallinckrodt Medical and 93 B, IBM. Working
now with an applicant and US Customs to develop a new Subzone 93 C. There is a
$10,000 application fee paid to the COG for each Subzone and $10,000 due annually.
II. Strategic Economic Planning and Cooperation
1. Used the Economic Strategies Committee and the Partnership for Leadership (CEO
Group) meetings to bring many key leaders together to promote a "regional voice,"
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d scuss the World Class Region Conference and other important issues. Congressman
essman
Price addressed the CEO and Economic Strategies committee leaders on the current
state of affairs in DC relevant to the Triangle.
2. Helped prepare for the WORLD CLASS REGION II Conference. Prepared several
drafts of the economic competitiveness paper and participated on the discussions of that
group as well as the Steering Committee and the Leadership Council group. Developed
several key contacts in State Government, etc. for post conference venture work. Served
with the Leadership Task Force and related work groups. Recruited to participate in an
effort to gain federal funds and programs for high-tech, experimental projects in the
Triangle. i`
3. Worked to enable COG to use the Geographic Information System & Infrastructure
Survey Projects to evaluate the growth potential of the Region and help influence how
the Region is marketed. Met with Watts Carr of NCDOC to emphasize TJCOG interest
in state/regional cooperation on GIS for economic development. We are now a party to
the state planning for this project. Set up a presentation on GIS to Triangle Commercial
Real Estate Exchange.
4. Promoted regional cooperation among chambers and local governments. Held
several meetings with RDRA leaders and new staff,Rita Quinn. Worked on the
American Airlines Hub retention and London Gateway efforts. Regional Group
Leaders gathering has resulted in a new initiative of a Regional Town Hall.
5. Regional Marketing Group session at Treyburn with speaker from NC Biotechnology
Center was held to facilitate a buyer/supplier exchange between RTP firms and
regional economic development professionals. Oriented this group toward assisting the
WCR's regional marketing venture at a meeting in Hillsborough. Explored combining
this group with the quarterly meeting of state developers from this Region,but State
staff has little time to pursue, so will proceed with collaborative efforts with RDRA.
6. Planned Downtown Quarterly Exchange programs for the next 18 months, under
new chair Eleanor Kinnaird,Mayor of Carrboro. Met 1/28 at the RTWTC, and in
Carrboro on 4/1, and plan to meet (in Wake Forest) on implications for our towns of the
Americans with Disabilities Act. (In the process of sharing this information and the
convening function with the newly formed Raleigh Region of the NC Downtown
Development Association.)
7. Successfully assisted the effort for Extended Area Telephone Service for Wake
County and Orange County. Held several sessions with company representatives to
explore ways to solve telecommunications problems in the urban core of the Region.
Supporting toll free access for outlying communities (Benson, Fuquay, Pittsboro,
Smithfield/Selma,Wake Forest) to the RTP. Continue monitoring of the
implementation of the toll reduction plans. Worked to prevent the 919/910 area code
change within Chatham,Johnston and Orange Counties.
Triangle j Council of Governments Board of Delegates —
Ventures to Improve the Economic Competitiveness of the Region
1993/94 Work Plan
Goal: To identify the key factors that will keep this Region economically
competitive and promote actions on the part of local, state and federal governments
that will strengthen the Region's economy.
Project: Unified Economic Development Strategy
Develop and disseminate a four-tiered economic development strategy for the region.
Why Now?
The World Class Region Conference called for a four-tiered economic development
strategy that would support (1) early-stage growth companies*; (2) incubation of new
firms; (3) investment in existing industries; and (4) recruitment of later-stage growth
companies*. The result would be a coordinated economic development strategy for the
region
1-Year Milestones
• With the Raleigh -Durham Regional Association and other Chambers of Commerce,
create an economic development task force drawing from the TJCOG Economic
Strategies Committee, the Regional Marketing Group and the World Class Regional
Conference focus group.
• Seek funding for a regional economic analysis which describes the region's major
employers; the major types of employment; how manufactured goods are imported !'
into and exported from the region; wage and work-force skill levels; trends in the size
and composition of the work force; and trends in major types of businesses.
• Seek funding for a regional economic forecasting model which builds on the above
economic analysis; current state, national, and international economic trends; and the
effects of new public policies and social trends upon businesses (e.g. health care and
environmental regulatory trends).
• Survey and assess economic development incentives provided by the member
governments or available from the State resources.
• Survey and assess the region's entrepreneurial environment- how new businesses are
allowed or encouraged to start up. This environment includes the money available to
loan people with ideas but no collateral; access to university faculty; a network of
specialists and markets;etc.
• Identify the types of industries that the Triangle J region should support, promote,
and recruit.
• Lobby for inclusion of the Triangle J region's economic development priorities in the
State's "Comprehensive Economic Development Plan" to be adopted April, 1994 (SB27-
Current Operations Appropriations Act, Section 143B-434.1).
• Continue contractual responsibilities for FTZ #93 and Subzones A, B, &C. Reactivate
the general purpose zone and develop new subzones as needed.
and meet requirements of State appropriation.
• Early-stage companies are businesses still in their conceptual stage working on
financing, appropriate technologies, markets, etc. Later- stage companies are the more
established businesses working on expansion, restructuring of financing, using or
developing new technologies and markets,etc.
Goal: To assist the education/school system of the Region to achieve a much
higher level of performance-to develop the vision, the resources and the working
system that will produce the best high school graduates of any school system in the
world.
B. Project: Highly-Skilled Workforce Program
Explore ways to move our educational system towards a skilled work force model,
emphasizing the needs of the student in addition to the needs of the employer.
Why Now?
The World Class Region Conference called for businesses and schools to work together
to both keep students in school and prepare a skilled, adaptable workforce. Other
regions and other countries have succeeded in developing programs that move students
gradually into the workforce while they continue to learn.
1-Year Milestones
• Form a task force with representatives from parents, students, business and industry,
secondary education, post-secondary education, and public officials.
• Develop an inventory of skilled workforce initiatives, including apprenticeship
programs.
• Outline one or more preliminary proposals for more detailed design and possible
pilot projects.
Goal: To assist member governments,individually or collectively,to deliver
cost-effective services to their citizens. e.g. improved telecommunications...
2-year Milestone
Obtain funding for a computerized communications highway (internet) that will allow
communities to connect to local,regional, and state data to answer questions about
development, growth and environmental quality..
PART 9. OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Requested bv: Senator Plexico. Representatives Crawford, Wainwright. Gray
COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS
Sec. 39. (a) Of the funds appropriated in this act to the Office of State
Planning. eight hundred sixty-four thousand two hundred seventy dollars (S864.270)
for the 1993-94 fiscal Year and eight hundred sixty-four thousand tsso hundred
seventy dollars (S864,270) for the 1994-95 fiscal year shall only be used as provided
by this section. Each regional council of government or lead regional organization is
allocated up to forty-eight thousand fifteen dollars (S4S.015) for each fiscal year. with
the actual amount calculated as provided in subsection (b) of this section.
(h) The funds shall he allocated as follows: A share of the maximum
forts-eight thousand fifteen dollars (S48.015) each fiscal year shall he allocated to
each county and smaller city based on the most recent annual estimate of the Office
of State Budget and Management of the population of that county (less the
population of any larger city ssithin that county) or smaller city, divided by the sum
of the total population of the region (less the population of larger cities %%ithin that
region) and the total population of the region living in smaller cities. Those funds
shall be paid to the regional council of government for the region in «hick that sits
c,r county is located upon receipt by the Office of State Planning of a resolution of
the governing board of the county or city requesting release of the funds. If any city
or county does not so request payment of funds by June 30 of a State fiscal year, that
share of the allocation for that fiscal year shall revert to the General Fund.
(c) A regional council of government may use funds appropriated by this
section only to assist local governments in grant applications, economic development,
community development, support of local industrial development activities, and other
activities as deemed appropriate by the member governments.
(d) Funds appropriated by this section may not be used for payment of
dues or assessments by the member governments, and may not supplant funds
appropriated by the member governments.
(e) As used in this section "Larger City" means an incorporated city with
a population of 50,000 or over. "Smaller City" means any other incorporated city.
Requested by: Representatives Wainwright, Crawford, Gray, Senators Plyler, Plexico,
Martin of Guilford
• Senate Bill 27
Page 34
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// REGION NAME IS TRIANGLE J COO AMOUNT PERCENT POP 92
9LDSTON CHATHAM 9 25.50 0.29 1862
TTS80RO CHATHAM $ 137.35 1862
�Z tER CITY CHATHAM 4 359.81 0.75
m URAL ; SMALL TOWNS CHATHAM 4 3003.98 98 6.26 40725
HAPEL HILL(PART) DURHAM ` 97.00 8.28
‘MORRISVILLE(PART) DURHAM 9 3291.66 6 .86 44625+ SMALL TOMS DURHAM
a. ,AFINSON
AYTO JOHNSTON $ 401.71 0.84 5446
CLAYTON JOHNSTON $ 106.81 0.22 1448
N1 OAKS JOHNSTON $ 107.47 0.22 1457
JOUR
RYtPART) 32.01 0.07 434 JOHNSTON
.P NEOLEVEL JOHNSTON 4 93.60 0.19 1269
.PRINCETON JOHNSTON 9 91 .24 0.79 1237
ALMA JOHNSTON $ 349.19 4734
3 I HFIELD JOHNSTON 0 563.84 1.17
�t RAL + SMALL TOWNS JOHNSTON $ 6381.58.58 13.29 86515
DAOf1AY(PART) LEE 4$ 1447.00 3.01 19617
RANFORD L 9 3181.97 6.63 43138
,.. RRI EORO ORANGE ORANGE R ; SMALL TOWNS LEE 1 943.13 . 1 .96 12786
. � 2967 .03 6 .18 40224
tiCMAPEL MILLIPART) ORANGE 967 .05 6 .18 4376
4 HILLSBOROUGH ORANGE 32.79 0.68 512
OL MEBANE(PART) ORANGE 4 7350.77 14.08 99656
RURAL + SMALL TOWNS ORANGE $ 412.70 0.06 4814
APEX 9 '355.09 0.74
u GARNER-MARINA WAKE 9 1164.12 2.42 15382
to GARNER WAKE 9 101.94 0.21
. Kj'I0H SPRINGS WAKE 9 172.16 0.36 2354
MDRRISDALE 9 . 129.53 0.27
RDLESVILLEE(PART) WAKE KE $ . 42.27 0.09
ROLESVIItE • 07
$ 255.60 0.49 3194
tEBUL N WAKE $ 249.10 0.52 3377
tEBULON WAKE 913083.80 27 .25 177377
tURAI SMALL TOWNS WAKE 448014.98 99.99 650939
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TOTALS
KM(' DURHAM, CARY, RALEIGH IGNORED