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Official urges career pathways for students, cites Platform Aerospace expansion
Summary
A committee member urged the county to promote trades and career pathways out of the tech center, citing local manufacturing and the expansion of Platform Aerospace as examples of the employers the county should try to attract.
A committee member said the county should expand opportunities for students to enter the trades directly out of high school, rather than pushing all students toward college. "Bring a there used to be some manufacturing here... get young kids, especially, out of our, tech center here, get into a trade," the committee member said, and cited a local example: the print shop on Airport View Drive is now Platform Aerospace, which the speaker said is preparing to expand.
The official framed workforce development as an economic-development strategy to attract employers who offer career paths and on-the-job training. No specific training program, funding amount or formal staff directive was provided in the remarks; the suggestion was presented as policy preference and local example.
