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CARY - In setting up a new Economic Policy Commission, town leaders say they are seeking more accountability from the Cary Chamber of Commerce.
"What we think and hope is that it will better define those things we'd like the chamber to do with the funds given," says town councilwoman Marla Dorrel, who helped organize the commission. "That checklist of expectations has not been presented in the past. There has been a tacit understanding of what the chamber was expected to do."
In March the Cary council formed the 13-member group. The key goal is to push Cary's tax base closer to a balance of 60 percent residential, 40 percent commercial. The split now is 74 percent to 26 percent.
The chamber receives...