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NC Green Industry Council Update
The NC Green Industry Council Legislative Committee
Buddy Murrow, Doug Chapman, Mark Peters, and Sam Lang
2011 – Protect ◆ Promote ◆ Partner
Help Protect the Green Industry – Support the NC GIC PAC!
While the economy has affected each and every one
of us throughout our diverse industry, we know that
legislation at the state and federal level will continue
to have an even greater affect on our
businesses.
Much work needs to be done in the
next session of the General Assembly on
issues including Water rights/irrigation,
Labor/E-verify, taxes, landscape
contractors licensing, and more. But
we need your help to keep moving the
NC green industry forward!
As the GIC President for 2011, I
challenge each member of this great
industry to join me in contributing to
the GIC Political Action Committee
(PAC)
Plain and simple, through the GIC
PAC, your contribution helps the GIC
support the legislators that support this
industry!
Join fellow green industry members in
making the GIC PAC strong. The legislative short
session in 2012 will present great challenges on
many fronts. It will also be a time of great opportunity.
Help us safeguard your business interest by contributing to
the GIC PAC today! Simply fill out the form on the next page
and mail it in to GIC
Thank you for your support, and look for details and information
from the October 21, 2012 PAC Fundraiser event with
Sen. David Rouser and other legislators in the next issue of
Nursery Notes.
Buddy Murrow
2011 GIC President
The NC Green Industry Council (GIC) has
made huge progress in many legislative
issues that affect your green
industry business.
For example, this year alone
the GIC has:
▲ Successfully negotiated a
re-writing of DENR’s rules regulating
the use of reclaimed
water to include nurseries
and retail centers;
▲ Successfully stood up for
green industry member firms
by negotiating delayed the
implementation of the state E-
verify rules to include a phase in
period and to excuse firms
employing fewer than 25 people
from the jurisdiction of the rule;
▲ Hosted with Toro Corp a water symposium
in July highlighting advanced water
technologies and the direction of water policy in the
state; and
▲ Guided the NC Landscape Contractors License
successfully through the Senate and to the Finance
Committee in the House where it will be presented
next session and successfully defended the Turf
Center money from state and university budget cuts.
See GIC UPDATE – continued on page 40
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