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BDAB approves staff solicitation to run focus groups and stakeholder interviews for city economic development strategy
Summary
Board members approved a staff-led solicitation to convene three focus groups and conduct stakeholder interviews to inform a city-focused economic development strategy; staff will recruit representatives from entrepreneurship, recruitment, retention/expansion, workforce and social-infrastructure sectors.
BDAB approved a staff request on June 4 to solicit participants and facilitators for three focus groups and a slate of stakeholder interviews that will feed a city-focused economic development strategy.
Staff described a proposed structure of three facilitated focus-group sessions (June 10, July 10 and Aug. 28) and roughly 100 stakeholder interviews (about 75 with top private employers and 25 using Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data). The focus-group categories are entrepreneurship, business recruitment, business retention/expansion, workforce development and social infrastructure. Staff said Urban Renewal–located…
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