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Linda Shaw is disbanding a committee that was studying possible changes to Guilford County's economic incentives policy.

The committee formed last year after commissioners declared a moratorium on incentives. It was eventually lifted. The committee last met in September 2006.

An excerpt from Shaw's letter to county officials and business recruiters:

For the past five months I have been waiting on Dan Lynch and Loren Hill to get back with us on plans they wanted to present on behalf of the business community. I have contacted our manager on two or three occasions over the past five months to see if we could call another meeting and was told to "wait until next month." This went on until about a month ago when the manager suggested we call a meeting.

About this same time I discover (to my embarrassment when asking Dan Lynch about the report) that Dan and Loren had given this report to Rob Bencini two to three months ago. No one bothered to inform me of this and to be honest, I don't understand why. As a matter of fact, I still haven't seen the report and suggestions.

It is disheartening when a commissioner (or commissioners) is trying to do something that will not only help our economy but will also come up with ways we can help small businesses only to have our staff not working with us to accomplish this. I am writing this to let you know that I informed Crystal yesterday to disband the committee and inform everyone involved. I want to thank the members again as well as Dan and Loren .

Linda O. Shaw, Chair of the Incentive Committee

(This thing came in one block, so I inserted paragraph breaks to make it more readable. And just so you know, Dan Lynch and Loren Hill are local business recruiters, Rob Bencini handles economic development for the county, and Crystal Maurer is the deputy clerk to the board of commissioners.)

Update: Just saw this Sept. 21 memo from County Manager David McNeill to the commissioners:

Rob Bencini and I met with Commissioner Shaw this week to discuss the status of the Economic Development Incentive Committee. The current policy will be revised and presented to the committee at a meeting tentatively set for Thursday, Oct. 18 at 3 p.m.