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January 30, 2009 (Board Retreat) Page 1219 GC Multi-Purpose Room Renovations: All new carpet will be a 100 recycled content. All adhesive for carpet application will be "formaldehyde free". All paint is LOW or NO VOC content. Dishwashers are Energy Star certified. Kitchen finishing materials are all constructed of recycled content. Facility Services Purchased Supplies: Have initiated Green Seal Certified Roll Paper Towel in 50g of our buildings and are expanding to all buildings. Green Seal Certified multipurpose cleaner being used in GC cleaning and this will be the only multipurpose cleaner purchased moving forward. "Environmentally Friendly" toilet bowl cleaner tested and being used in all buildings now. Compost Application: We have ramped up our use of compost fertilizer at FLP to include not just the soccer complex but other suffering areas around the park. We have identified the compost facility that has the "mix" that works the best for our locations and have visited the operation as well as reviewed all sample analytical data. County Location Recycling Container Additions: We have added 58 paper recycling containers and 63 bottles and cans recycling containers to the county operated locations. Local Food Update County Manager Day briefly reviewed the following report: Cabarrus County received the signed grant contract with North Carolina Department of Agriculture Farmland Preservation Trust Fund on November 12. This includes money for the Cruse Meat Processing Facility in Rimertown, the creation of a Local Food Policy Council, and the development of a marketing plan for local foods. The $675,000.00 we received was the largest award given and distributed. by the Trust Fund Advisory Board. The project completion date was extended to June 30, 2010 for the Cruse Meat Processing Facility Kill floor addition. The RFQ for Wastewater Management plans was released in June, 2008. We received 3 packets. Individual interviews were completed and a tentative decision made about which company to use to prepare the Waste Management Plans. In the meantime, it was decided we needed an aquifer study and Kyle contacted Orion Engineering (already working another project with the county) and the study was completed with the water quality looking good. However, there will need to be another well drilled to accommodate the quantity of water needed and used by this operation. We will be meeting with the county's environmental health and Orion Engineering to discuss options for the new well and the permitting required by the state. In the meantime, I hope we will be able to move forward and work on getting the Waste Management plan done and the permit submitted to Raleigh, Divisionof Water Quality with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. This permitting process with DENR can take as long as 6 months to complete. Next steps: well and wastewater management plans, construction for the facility; apply for Rural Development grant since we're going to be creating more jobs at this facility. The Cannon Foundation, along with Cabarrus County Government has invested $900,000.00 in the Elma C. Lomax Incubator Farm Park on Atando Road. Cooperative Extension has partnered with several other county departments to create an advisory committee comprised of individuals from Park and Rec., General Services, farmers, horticulturalists, and local businesses. The advisory committee has met nine times and discussed and agreed upon program goals, equipment needed, educational program plan and conceptual ideas of what will happen and be grown out there. The greenhouse materials have been purchased and they were delivered. We've "hired" a mentor farmer to work every day with the beginning farmers in the program. This mentor farmer is going to build the greenhouse. It will be up and functional by March 1. There have been vegetables planted out there on site to