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10 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 11 brightest, but also inviting industry and businesses to come into the community.” In conclusion, Chairman Wesson asserts, “We are a rural community, and we don’t want to change that. We want to create the kinds of things that will draw people in, but our focus must always be on our citizens here, who pay the bills and elect us. We need to continue to expand and bring new opportunities to them. We can’t leave a stone unturned, and we don’t want to.” PREFERRED VENDOR/ PARTNER n EDF Renewables www.edf-re.com For the past 35 years, EDF Renewables has worked with hundreds of communities across the country building long-standing relationships with local leaders and neighbors. We invest in our host communities and landowners and take great pride in their success. Our projects provide jobs, tax revenues, landowner payments and other sources of local economic development. EDF Renewables is committed to our host communities for the life of the project as a developer in the early stages and throughout as a long-term Operations & Maintenance provider and to helping North Carolina be among the top states in the nation for solar. n ECU Health www.ecuhealth.org n Green Engineering www.greenengineering.com n Occano www.occano.com n The WolfeStein Group LLC rsteinburg@aol.com n Vincent Valuations LLC vincentvaluations@gmail.com