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BOOK 21 PAGE 6g8 The Board considered a request from Central Carolina Community College for additional funding for a new Emergency Services Training Facility. Finance Director Lisa Minter stated that bids for the construction of a new Emergency Services Training Center, located at the old Lee County Airport site, had been received with the low bid being $1,999,900 from Construction Systems, Inc. of Fayetteville. Ms. Minter further stated the community college had a deficit of $92,173 to complete the project and was asking the Commissioners to allow them to use accrued interest since the project had been delayed. Ms. Minter stated that due to the delay of the project, interest in excess of $200,000 has been earned on the appropriated funds held by the County. Therefore, it was Ms. Minter's recommendation to approve $92,173 of accrued interest to Central Carolina Community College so the Emergency Services Training Facility project may be completed. Commissioner Paschal moved to accept Ms. Minter's recommendation to approve $92,173 of accrued interest to Central Carolina Community College for the Emergency Services Training Facility project. Upon a vote, the results were as follows: Aye: Brown, Kelly, Lemmond, Paschal, Reives, Shook, and Smith Nay: None The Chairman ruled the motion had been adopted unanimously. Chairman Brown stated several applications had been received for the vacant Tax Administrator position and HR Director Joyce McGehee had reviewed applications and eliminated those not qualified. Chairman Brown asked the Board how they wished to handle the application process. After some discussion, Chairman Brown appointed a committee of Commissioner's Jamie Kelly, Jerry Lemmond, and Linda Shook to review the applications and bring a recommendation back to the full Board. Mr. Brown stated that Commissioner Kelly would chair the committee. Commissioner Smith moved to approve the appointment of the above referenced committee. Upon a vote, the results were as follows: Aye: Brown, Kelly, Lemmond, Paschal, Reives, Shook, and Smith Nay: None The Chairman ruled the motion had been adopted unanimously. At this time Chairman Brown opened a public hearing that had been advertised for this date and time to consider the cost of an economic development project with the Lee County Economic Development Corporation, which consists of the cost of construction and new machinery for the Frontier Spinning, LLC manufacturing company located on Hwy. 421 North. Mr. John Daniel, representing the Lee County Economic Development Corporation, outlined the proposed project and asked the Commissioners to consider sharing 2