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RESOLUTION
2014 -04 -01
VIRGINIA: At a regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Pittsylvania County, Virginia,
held on Monday, April 7, 2014, the following resolution was presented and adopted:
WHEREAS, the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund
(AFID) is designed to encourage efforts by local governments to support their agriculture and
forestry based businesses; and
WHEREAS, the AFID program provides matching funds to local governments to fund
feasibility studies, business plans and other pre - development work for projects that will have a
significant and lasting positive impact on the local agriculture sector; and
WHEREAS, the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors created and appointed a
Pittsylvania County Agriculture Development Board to promote and support the agriculture and
forestry industry in the County; and
WHEREAS, the Pittsylvania County Agriculture Development Board has identified the
integrated poultry industry as a primary agribusiness development opportunity for the County;
and
WHEREAS, the Agriculture Development Board has determined that an in -depth and
independent feasibility study that will evaluate the integrated poultry market requirements and
growth opportunities, identify target companies and help develop marketing materials is a critical
first step in pursuing this agribusiness opportunity; then
BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
supports an application to the Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund for an
Integrated Poultry Industry Feasibility Study grant in the amount of $10,000 and that the County
agrees to match these funds with $5,000 of in -kind services and $5,000 in cash funding; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Interim County Administrator is directed to
provide a letter of support for the application committing that the required funds will be provided
prior to project completion.
Given under my hand this 7th day of April, 2014.
ssie L. Barksdale, Chairman
Pittsylvania County Board of Su ervisors
Otis S. H6wk6r, Interim Clerk
Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors