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March 23, 20I5 (Board Retreat)
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<br />• Who needs to be involved - which people, organizations, jurisdictions,
<br />and interests?
<br />• How should we go about achieving this - what strategies, actions,
<br />engagement, and communications should we use?
<br />1. 911 call center consolidation
<br />2. Fire department coordination, duplication, comprehensive fire plan
<br />3. Accelerated permitting
<br />4. Communications - networking, residential, county
<br />5. Healthcare costs, e.g., employee health clinics - 2 employee health
<br />clinics rather than current multiple clinics for employee testing;
<br />shared by all, county, municipalities, and school districts k give
<br />everyone a chance to participate
<br />6. Fuel supply, vehicle maintenance, driver education vehicles
<br />7. Parking deck - County and City of Concord
<br />8. Parks and recreation - partnerships, co- sponsorships, county
<br />funds /builds parks or contributes funds to municipalities to build,
<br />joint recreation facility development
<br />9. Joint garbage /recycling service countywide
<br />10. Shared warehouse space with schools
<br />11. WASACC
<br />12. Yard waste collection and processing single facility or multiple
<br />locations
<br />13. County - school. technology
<br />T.iinrh Rraale
<br />p.m.
<br />The Board took a lunch break at 11:47 p.m. The meeting resumed at 12:37
<br />Focus Area 3: Planning, Growth, Economic Development
<br />The third focus area involved planning, growth and economic development.
<br />Participants discussed the following criteria.
<br />• Where are we now - what does it look and feel like today?
<br />• Where do we want to be - what results do we want, what should it look
<br />and feel like when we get there?
<br />• Why do we want to get there - why does it matter?
<br />• Who needs to be involved - which people, organizations, jurisdictions,
<br />and interests?
<br />• How should we go about achieving this - what strategies, actions,
<br />engagement, and communications should we use?
<br />1. Coordinate growth with large out --of -state developers k how to address
<br />before "commons" or "spillover" areas are impacted, e.g., Cabarrus
<br />Crossing
<br />2. Countywide standards /quality of life
<br />3. EDC - cities compete with one another, how to ensure economic benefits
<br />accrue countywide and cross- jurisdictionally, equalizing key
<br />information among all elected officials, incentive agreements come
<br />through quickly for action, addressing trust and confidentiality of
<br />competitive discussions, concerns that elected officials don't maintain
<br />confidentiality
<br />4. Engage developers in conversations about what the county looks like and
<br />we want it to look like, what kind of corporate citizen they will be,
<br />what they want to accomplish through development and their track record
<br />in these areas
<br />5. Ensure relevant engagement of elected and staff to address public and
<br />private issues and concerns proactively
<br />6. Growth provides driver for improvements
<br />7. Incentives - when to use, why, and for whom, how to promote a
<br />countywide discussion about the when, where, why, and how of
<br />incentives, e.g., parks, schools, libraries, homes, entertainment
<br />8. Increased funding for tourism beyond Exit 49 (countywide)
<br />9. Managing and directing growth - balancing preservation and progress
<br />10. Marketing programs and positives of both school systems to recruit
<br />employers
<br />11. Role of cities and towns in managing growth and land use
<br />12. School funding, capacity, and growth - i.e., more municipal involvement
<br />with school planning, timing of construction, construction cost
<br />effectiveness
<br />13. Urbanization - affects us county -wide; growing 55+ population
<br />14. Zoning and annexation of satellite areas
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