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RALEIGH Citing a desire to get it right, state commerce officials are slowing down the planned move of the job recruiting and marketing functions of the Commerce Department to a nonprofit partnership.

During an update to lawmakers Tuesday, commerce officials said the move of five Commerce Department divisions to the new Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina won’t begin until July at the earliest.

“My experience is speed is not good if you want to do things well,” said Richard Lindenmuth, the recently named interim chief executive officer of the partnership. “The other part of speed is that it’s very hard to communicate and be transparent to those people who are interested and concerned that we are doing the right things.”

An earlier proposal anticipated that two divisions that recruit new businesses and market the state would move to the partnership in the first half of the year, followed later by three others: Small Business and Entrepreneurship; International Trade and Investment; and Travel Tourism, Film and Sports Development. Combined, the five divisions have a budget of about $20 million.

The Commerce Department plans to lay off nearly 60 workers from the affected divisions. Those workers could then

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