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Sweetwater OKs retail recruiting contract; committee recommends $50,000-per-year engagement
Summary
The Board authorized city staff to finalize a contract with an outside retail recruitment firm after a recommendation from a citizen/staff committee. The one-year-to-three-year contract (structured as a three‑year agreement with an annual termination option) is $50,000 per year and will require a budget amendment to fund it.
The Sweetwater Board of Commissioners authorized city staff to finalize a contract with an outside retail recruitment consultant after a committee recommendation and discussion at a call meeting.
The committee reviewed the single proposal received and recommended entering a contract valued at $50,000 per year. The contract can run between one and three years but is structured as a three‑year agreement with the option to terminate at the end of each year. The committee said the consultant would update the city’s market “gap analysis” (the city’s current version dates to 2019), provide traffic and daytime‑population data, produce a market guide and trade‑area analysis, and do targeted outreach to roughly 30 retailers…
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