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Jeff Davis photos Signs of the times... There was plenty of interesting signage at Monday night’s protest rally in front of the Chatham County Courthouse, including a large tree-like figure that was handled by three people. Emerson McReynold held his own sign. Still other signs featured people’s dissatisfaction with commissioners over issues ranging from development to road construction. Regional landfill among options for county By Randall Rigsbee Faced with a $125,000 shortfall in Chatham County’s solid waste management division, county commissioners are investigating options for short- and long-term solutions to the county’s solid waste needs. Those options include consideration of Chatham County hosting a regional landfill. "Between now and June, we’re either going to have to make some major, major changes, or we’re going to have to fix the tire again," said Board of Commissioners chairman Tommy Emerson during a January 13 work session devoted to solid waste issues. "I don’t think there’s any question we can patch it," Emerson said. But commissioners seem more interested in resolving the long-term solid waste questions. Chatham County isn’t alone. "This is not something that is exclusively a Chatham County problem," said county manager Charlie Horne. "It’s all over." The Triangle J Council of Governments, for instance, has sent letters to 80 local governments to gauge interest in hosting a regional landfill. "They’re looking for responses now," Horne said.
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County will sell park land By Randall Rigsbee Chatham County commissioners on Tuesday approved an economic incentive policy they hope will help stimulate local job growth. In a related action, the board also endorsed a plan to sell a portion of county-owned industrial land near Siler City and use the proceeds from the sale to develop infrastructure on the property to make it more appealing to prospective new industries. County commissioner Bunkey Morgan proposed both actions. The economic incentive policy is aimed at providing economic development incentives to new and expanding businesses and industries in the county. "This tool, as much as anything, is to help our present businesses expand," Morgan said. The policy will give tax breaks to businesses that meet specific criteria based on the project investment and the number of jobs created. The county will require the business or industry to pay in full annually the total property taxes due. A portion of that amount will be returned to the business in the form of a local economic development incentive grant.
Protesters voice opposition to more development By Randall Rigsbee Braving chilly evening temperatures, a crowd of around 300 county residents – many waving signs and dressed in T-shirts with slogans expressing their displeasure with recent actions taken by the county Board of Commissioners - rallied outside the Superior Courthouse in Pittsboro before and during the commissioners’ Tuesday meeting. The event had been planned and endorsed by several community activist groups, who urged county residents to appear en masse at the event. The signs on display told much of the story: "Chatham County is not for sale." "Visualize permanent gridlock." "We don’t want to be Cary."
Health Dept. poised to release county assessment By Cara Rotondaro The Chatham County Health Department will be making news at their January 27 meeting when the first-ever annual county health report is released. Results of this report will not be made public until this meeting, but the document has been in the works for some time. A county health assessment that began in 2002 provided the basis for this report, said Health Director Dorothy Cilenti. Primary data collected through focus groups, and secondary data gathered regarding deaths and diseases in the county, were the means for assessing Chatham health as a whole, she said. Cilenti said that this sort of study helps answer the question: "Are we moving in the right direction toward some of our Healthy Chatham targets?"
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