Columbia County Economic Development Corporation CCEDC Retreat 92306

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Columbia County Economic Development Corporation
(CCEDC)Retreat9-23-06
Center for Community Economic Development

• Professor Andy Lewis
• Community Development Specialist

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Is That Your Final Answer?

• What percentage of the households in Columbia
  County lived in the same dwelling throughout the
  entire period, 1995 to 2000?
• 81
• 57
• 66
• 74
• Source Table H38, Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF
  3)

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The Community Development Factor

• If we recognize the mobility of Americans, we
  cant lose sight of the fact that we need to
  build communities where people want to stay and
  economic opportunities are only part of the
  equation.

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Is That Your Final Answer?

• What percentage of Columbia County farmers
  (principal operators) work off of the farm 200
  days or more?
• Less then 5
• 20
• 40
• 90
• Source U.S. Census of Agriculture

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Insurance Crisis on the Farm?

• 58 of farm families that had a full-time wage
  and salaried employee, also had an
  employer-provided health care plan.
• Only 24 of farm families without a full-time
  wage and salaried employee, had employer-provided
  health care.
• Source Health Status, Use of Medical Services
  and Health Insurance Coverage A Comparison
  Between Farmers, Other Self Employed, and
  Wage/Salary Workers in Wisconsin, J. Whitaker,
  and D. Slesinger, PATS, UW-Extension.
  http//www.pats.wisc.edu/pdf20documents/rr12_2.pd
  f

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Is That Your Final Answer?

• Wisconsin has the third highest graduation rate
  in the country (85). Where does Wisconsin rank
  in high school graduation rates for African
  Americans among the 39 states that track this
  statistic?
• 1st
• 7th
• 22nd
• 39th
• Source High School Graduation Rates in the
  United States, 2002, Jay P.
• Greene, The Manhattan Institute for Policy
  Research,
• http//www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_baeo.h
  tm

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Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

• Over a 30-year career, an individual with a
  bachelors degree earns about one million more in
  income then the high school drop out.
• A high-school dropout earns just 49 of what an
  average adult worker earns each year.
• Source U.S. Census Bureau, March, 2001
• http//www.census.gov/population/socdemo/educati
  on/ppl-
• 157/tab08.pdf

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Is That Your Final Answer?

• What percentage of employed Columbia County,
  Wisconsin residents work within the County
  boundaries?
• 52
• 75
• 25
• 90
• 10
• Source U.S. Census 2000, County to County
  Worker Flow Files,
• http//www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/comm
  uting.html

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U.S. Census Worker Flow Data
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Benefits from employment tend to be regional,
but.

• Should communities think about how commuting for
  employment impacts the following?
• Where do commuters do their shopping?
• What is the expense of commuting?
• How much time is spent commuting that could have
  been spent on income earning activities, or
  community and family building activities?
• What is the environmental impact and
  transportation impact of commuters?

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Feeling Inadequate? Now for an easy one.

• In which country are Panama hats made?
• Panama
• Brazil
• India
• Ecuador

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Why use quizzes?

• People all too often assume that they know the
  answers. Our assumptions sometimes keep us from
  learning the real truths and prohibit us from
  becoming learners.

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A Review State Economic Development Programs,
Aug 2006 (LAB)

• There is no generally accepted definition of
  economic development
• page 9

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Columbia County Economic Development Corporation
Mission

• "To foster and encourage activities that result
  in constructive economic development and an
  improved quality of life."

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Economic Development

• The process of retaining, expanding, and
  attracting jobs, income and wealth in a manner
  that improves individual economic opportunities
  and the quality of human life.

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Growth vs. Development

• We want jobs and more jobs
• We want tax base
• Any growth is good

• We want balanced growth
• We want quality of life
• We want economic security

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Economic Growth vs. Economic Development
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Definition of Community Development

• A group of people in a locality initiating a
  social action process (i.e., planned
  intervention) to change their economic, social,
  cultural and/or environmental situation.

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Community Development Activities

• Economic Preparedness Assessments/Community
  Assessments (First Impressions)
• Organizational Development
• Management training
• Organizing Groups
• Working with volunteers
• Identifying Stakeholders
• Leadership Development
• Recruiting leaders
• Training leaders
• Planning
• Community Visioning Process

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Building Community Capacity for Economic
Development

• Make sure the whole community has a common vision
  for its future.
• Make sure you include an external assessment
• Capacity is more than industrial parks.
• Build organizational capacity inside the
  community.
• Understanding that Economic Development is
  Regional.

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Economic Development Whos Job Is It?

• The economic developers role is to influence the
  economic development process for the benefit of
  the community through expanding job
  opportunities, income, wealth, and the tax base.

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Everyone is part of the marketing department!
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Its All About Change
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Luck of the Draw?
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Be Prepared
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Being Prepared for the Goodand the Bad
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Key Strategies for Community Economic Development

• Building Community Capacity
• Attracting new basic employers
• Improving efficiency of existing firms
• Encouraging Entrepreneurship
• Capturing Outside Dollars
• Re-acquiring dollars taxed away by broader units
  of government

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Per Capita Columbia County Economic Development
Expenditures (2004)
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Is Columbia County Self Sufficient? of
County Jobs Filled By County Residents
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Cooperating to Compete
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Columbia County (A labor exporter)
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More Information on Worker Flow Data

• See Community Indicators, The Center for
  Community Economic Development, University of
  Wisconsin Extension
• http//www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/Indicators_Links.htm
  workerflow

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S.M.A.R.T. Performance Measurement

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Relevant
• Time-Based

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Outcome Measurement
Source AngelouEconomics, 2005
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http//www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/econdev_performance.h
tm
Performance Measurement
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Center for Community Economic Development
Professor Andy Lewis Center for Community and
Economic Development University of Wisconsin
Extension 610 Langdon Street, Room 328 Madison,
WI 53703 E-mail andy.lewis_at_uwex.edu Ph
608-263-1432 FAX [phone]
http//www.uwex.edu/ces/cnred/documents/LewisAndy
.pdf Or, Kathleen Haas, Columbia County UWEX
http//www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/columbia/