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Develop, create and implement marketing materials (digital and traditional) to recruit new businesses and indushies to encourage growth and diverse industry offerings at competitive wage base. Identify and irnplement infrastructure pdects ready for funding locally, state or federally. Collaborate with partners like Kittitas Reclamation District, Ellensburg School District, WSDOT and others. Some of these strategies mentioned above are specifically in Chapter l0 of the Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan, Economic Development. You will also see as a priority of the Kittitas County Chamber of Commerce for the positions that are being requested to implement and measure success of the following goals. . Support the retention and expansion of existing local businesses and industries.o Recruit new business and industries to foster a strong base ofjobs and wages.r Protect the viability of the airport as a significant economic resource to the community.o Encourage the full economic use of commercial and industrial lands, buildings, and infraskucfure. These same types of strategies can be also found in the Ellensburg Comprehensive Plan with an expansion of partners in sectors of business: industrial, transportation, agriculture, tourism, healthcare and education. 8. Describe any research your organization has conducted which shows the need for this position. Please include the data upon which your claims are based for our review. Rural communities are not an economic liability to the county-every rural community has a unique colnbitratiott of assets in rvhich they can invest to grow and promote resilience. These assets include but are not lirnited to: l. Growing populations and rvorkforces in some counties due to intenrational irnmigration 2. Natural rcsources including arnenities such as public parks as well as tradable cornrnodities such as corn and timber 3. lnnovaliott and adaption irr both the agricultural and ntauufaciurirrg iudusir:ies 4. Comntunit5,sociRl capital resulting fiom c.lose-knit contmunilic-.s and social infrastnrcture Soure tural cotntnunities have successfully leveraged their riatural amerrities to revitalize their economies. Many of lhe t'tit-al al'eas erltel'iencirts econonric glou,th have prospered. jn 1tar1, duc ti-r tourism and the outcloor recreatiott econollly. llecreation-dependent rural counties have deuronstrated faster job growth comparccl with tton-recreation rural coutrties, and newcomers to these areas tend to have higher than average eamings than those ilr other rural counties. While avsrage job earnings in recreation counties are lower than in non-recreation couttties, wages in recreation counties are growing rnore rapidly. Moreover, reseaLch shows that rural counties with a higher percentage of federal lands tend to perfonn better on economic indicators such as per capita income and employnent. References: McElrtrurry, "Proactive and Patient"; Matheura, Svajlerika, and lfernialln, "Revival and Opportunity." Meghan Lawson, 'oRecreatiolr Counties Attract New Residents and l-ligher Incomes" (Bozeman, MT: I a