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Develop, create and implement marketing materials (digital and traditional) to recruit new businesses <br />and industries to encourage growth and diverse industry offerings at competitive wage base. <br />• Identify and implement infrastructure projects ready for funding locally, state or federally. Collaborate <br />with partners like Kittitas Reclamation District, Ellensburg School District, WSDOT and others. <br />Some of these strategies mentioned above are specifically in Chapter 10 of the Kittitas County <br />Comprehensive Plan, Economic Development. You will also see as a priority of the Kittitas County <br />Chamber of Commerce for the positions that are being requested to implement and measure success of the <br />following goals. <br />• Support the retention and expansion of existing local businesses and industries. <br />• Recruit new business and industries to foster a strong base of jobs and wages. <br />• Protect the viability of the airport as a significant economic resource to the community. <br />• Encourage the full economic use of commercial and industrial lands, buildings, and infrastructure. <br />These same types of strategies can be also found in the Ellensburg Comprehensive Plan with an expansion of <br />partners in sectors of business: industrial, transportation, agriculture, tourism, healthcare and education. <br />8. Describe any research your organization has conducted which shows the need for this position. <br />Please include the data upon which your claims are based for our review. <br />Rural communities are not an economic liability to the county—every rural community has a unique <br />combination of assets in which they can invest to grow and promote resilience. These assets include but are not <br />limited to: <br />1. Growing populations and workforces in some counties due to international iirunigration <br />2. Natural resources including amenities such as public parks as well as tradable commodities such as coni and <br />timber <br />3. Innovation and adaption in both the agricultural and manufacturing industries <br />4. Community social capital resulting from close-knit communities and social infrastructure <br />Soiree rural communities have successfully leveraged their natural amenities to revitalize their economies. Many <br />of the rural areas experiencing economic growth have prospered. in part, duc to tourism and the outdoor <br />recreation economy. Recreation -dependent rural counties have demonstrated faster job growth compared with <br />non -recreation rural counties, and newcomers to these areas tend to have higher than average earnings than <br />those in other rural counties. While average job earnings in recreation counties are lower than in non -recreation <br />counties, wages in recreation counties are growing more rapidly. Moreover, research shows that rural counties <br />with a higher percentage of federal lands tend to perforin better on economic indicators such as per capita <br />income and employment. <br />References: <br />McElmuriy, "Proactive and Patient'; Mathema, Svajlenka, and Hermann, "Revival and Opportunity." <br />Meghan Lawson, "Recreation Counties Attract New Residents and Higher Incomes" (Bozeman, MT <br />