Help Chart Vermont’s Economic Growth
Join in a community workshop October 23rd at the College of St Joseph, to help build the
Help Chart Vermont’s Economic Growth
Join in a community workshop October 23rd at the College of St Joseph, to help build the first state-wide Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
What will Vermont’s economy look like in 2015 or 2025? How do we increase the economic well-being of all Vermonters?
Building wages and creating good jobs is a top priority of Governor Shumlin’s 2012-2015 Strategic Plan for Vermont and the goal or the state’s first state-wide Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). With your help, we can refine the vision of Vermont’s economic future.
This October, the Department of Economic Development (DED) invites citizens from around the state to participate in a series of workshops as part of the CEDS process. The goal: solicit strategies and tactics for helping Vermont’s economy grow in a manner that improves wages and job opportunities, builds business, enhances our quality of life and preserves Vermont’s brand, values and natural resources.
A CEDS workshop, hosted by Rutland Economic Development Corporation and the Vermont Department of Economic Development, will be held in this region at the College of St Joseph, October 23rd from 2-5:00 pm, and you are invited to participate.
Organized by the DED and regional development and planning groups, the sessions will be open to the public and will include a wide variety of stakeholders representing the interests of business, non-profits, the community and citizens.
In addition to the regional meetings, a CEDS Committee (representatives of the business, non-profits, education and communities) will be meeting regularly and will help determine and put together the final plan for the Governor’s review. The final plan will be released in the summer of 2014.
Background on the process, FAQs, a full schedule of meetings and examples of regional CEDS plans that have already been developed are available at ThinkVermont.com (click on “strategic planning”).
If you are not able to attend but would like to be heard, the department invites you to send your thoughts and comments to Lisa Gosselin, Commissioner at the Department of Economic Development,accd.ceds@state.vt.us.
Rutland Economic Development Corp.
112 Quality Lane
Rutland, VT 05701
(tel)802-773-9147
(fax)802-773-8009
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