Purpose, Objectives and Outcomes – from Governor Hickenlooper’s plan
Governor Hickenlooper’s number one priority is to build an “Economic Development Plan” from the bottom-up and chart a course for economic revival county by county in Colorado. The Governor requested that each county develop and/or update its economic development plan upon receiving current input from every aspect of the county to include local citizens, businesses, civic groups, municipalities and other interested parties. The goal is to have the counties’ economic development plans rolled up into 14 regional economic development plans, which collectively will be rolled up into a statewide economic development plan.
General objectives of this initiative include:
Utilize a bottom-up approach to identify economic development priorities for each county;
Create awareness for all citizens that this initiative is underway on a statewide basis so that they can provide input and ideas for consideration when their county’s economic development plan is being developed and/or updated;
Complete economic development plans that represent all 64 counties, either by creating new plans or updating and improving pre-existing plans;
Foster collaboration between all 64 counties and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) in order to roll up and develop regional economic development plans; and
Create the state’s economic development plan.
Specific outcomes desired:
Enhance local ownership of economic development;
Build stronger trust and relationships between government and communities;
Raise the degree of confidence within the business community;
Retain and create jobs for Colorado residents;
Identify innovative and/or “best practices” economic development ideas for implementation and replication respectively; and
Create a more competitive Colorado.
Everyone’s Role
Everyone’s role is to participate in county economic development planning processes, provide input and ideas, and ask friends, family, neighbors and others to participate as well. Everyone is welcome at planning meetings and encouraged to share ideas. Another way to express input is through an economic development survey, which can be found at www.advancecolorado.com. Eagle County’s survey can be found at www.economiccouncil.biz
Eagle County’s Community Meeting
Please save the date for Thursday, March 31 from 5pm-7pm at the Eagle County Building. This community meeting is open to all community members & business owners. A brief introduction will be followed by a panel discussion with elected leaders and officials from each town & municipality within the valley. Public participate is not only encouraged, it’s essential
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