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County Manager's Report — August 20, 2018 Ongoing Projects Terminal Building — RaleighExec — The new terminal building is now under construction. The old building has been demolished and operations are being conducted in a temporary facility. The new building is a two-story facility with 14,000 square feet. The official ground breaking ceremony will be on Thursday September 27, 2018 at 8:00 am. Agricultural Business Cluster— Four Counties — Johnston, Harnett, Chatham and Lee have been in discussions on creating an Agricultural Business Cluster for our four counties. A study was completed documenting the agricultural assets in the four counties. All four counties had representation from economic development agencies in their county and their cooperative extension offices. Attached is the report that was developed and paid for by Harnett County. In addition, a proposal from TJCOG is attached that would allow the group to move together in marketing the cluster and attracting agricultural processors to our counties. These items are for information only at this time. In September, a presentation will be made to the Board of Commissioners on the project. ,rr Courthouse Renovations — Moseley Architects continues to work on the preliminary plan. We will present the draft plans to the Commissioners at the September regular meeting. Once the BOC gives us preliminary approval, we will hold meetings with the departments and agencies to review the plan. Other Items Land Use Plan — City planning staff continues to work on the plan and seek additional input from the public. We anticipate the Joint Planning Board will meet and discuss the plan at their next meeting at the end of July. We hope that after their recommendation that the plan will be before the Commissioners in August or September. Multi-Sports Complex—With recent discussion on soccer fields, I wanted to make sure that the Board of Commissioners had copies of the reports that were developed on the Multi-Sports Complex. Attached are several reports that were produced and discussed by the group that reviewed the plans. Air Monitoring —Attached please see emails and reports from Patrick Butler, Division of Air Quality with the Department of Environmental Quality. DEQ has made the decision to move the air monitoring equipment from the Blackstone Site. They have established the baseline air quality for area that would be most impacted by oil and gas exploration in