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Page )3 <br />Local Innovation and Business Development <br />Force <br />Charge: Develop strategies to assist businesses in growth and expansion, and to turn local <br />CenterFuse Members (proposed) <br />• Bill Provaznikf <br />+ Jared Vallejo <br />• Linda 5chactler <br />1. Complete local business needs assessment. <br />• Review business visits and needs assessments completed in 2018 and choose April 2019 <br />up to 5 areas address and create an action plan —some may be addressed in <br />other areas of this document or may be satisfied by other entities. <br />• Finalize competitive position analysis: broadband, water, electricity, taxes, May 2019 <br />property inventory <br />2. Create sbuftles to support local business mods. <br />+ Create a business "institute" that teaches business operations strategies Oct 2019 <br />• Support the EDXs Entrepreneur Training NxLevel. course as an instructor Ongoing <br />(currently staff and one board member) and as a sponsor <br />+ Engage In Chambees Enterprise Challenge Grant as judge/panelist Mar 2019 <br />3. Develop a plan to develop local Innovation, which may consider <br />+ Partnering -In or creating a new business -idea event to generate new business Oct 2019 <br />(partners: Chamber "Enterprise Challenge," IaIE/CWU, Commerce, EDA) <br />• Create and implement "guide" strategies to help local businesses know how to <br />expand, renew, or change. Provide to web contractorto incorporate in website May 2019 <br />• Organize annual business exchange and training sessions <br />• "Innovator incubation space" <br />7/15/201910:16 AM <br />