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Business
  • Change corporate culture

  • Involve Fairbanks Chamber and small businesses

  • Mega businesses need to invest in long term careers, internships, work study

  • Legislation needs to protect small business in our community

  • Encourage businesses to stay here

  • Increase manufacturing

  • Small business incubators

  • Small businesses supporting oil industry

  • Service infrastructure

  • Encourage large businesses with higher GDP per capita

  • Supported by smaller businesses

  • Work incentives

  • Educate businesses

  • Encourage home grown industries

Economy
  • Developing more in-state investors

  • Balanced strong economic base

  • Programs that encourage employment in local economy

  • Local "value added" product

  • Use research to develop our own destiny

  • Get away from perception of needing government dollars, need to diversify income, job courses

  • Encourage investment in our community

  • Encourage reinvestment using current resources (permanent funds, community revolving funds)

  • Raise wages

  • Capital and labor, banks focus on development more

  • It is good to partner government/business to leverage resources

  • Have tax base to leverage partnerships

  • Business & Government work together on community development (such as combine all the different committees)

Job Bank & Training
  • Not jobs for the sake of jobs, but ones that are here

  • Local job bank

  • Central clearing house for jobs needed/wanted

  • Job Shadow

  • On the Job training

  • Volunteering

  • Incentives for businesses to provide jobs for individuals who have successfully completed rehabilitation/civic work that is tied into training

  • Mentoring (Job) program

  • Military advertise what jobs are available in the community

  • School to work programs

University & Schools
  • Strengthen UAF - State funding, allow them to develop as a Land Grant University, Educational Parks

  • UAF Professors and students working with the public to develop Botanical/Birding Mining

  • Distance Learning Internet College

  • Develop Health Care Program at UAF

  • UAF address education needs of community

  • Master's in Social Work (MSW) program at UAF

  • High School/University/Business Partnership

  • Encourage University/Business Research Park (research transfer station, job shadow)

  • Encourage University and labor halls to keep going

  • Support UAF's programs to develop students to stay in our community then hire our own

  • Process technology - more programs like that, something in the middle

  • Community look into schools

  • Increase Vocational Education

  • Close cooperation with Hutchison for vocational tracking

  • High Schools need to train students with work ethic, customer service, general employability skills and family management

Youth Opportunities
  • School business partnership work better

  • Better inform parents of opportunities

  • Incentive programs that encourage students to stay local (but make sure jobs are here)

  • Link businesses to youth through volunteerism

  • In-service days and holidays include youth

  • Youth job shadowing

  • Have businesses create volunteer opportunities for kids that develop into job opportunities

  • Take kids to work

  • More opportunities for 12 - 15 year olds

  • Youth internships

  • Agricultural opportunities for youth

  • Encourage our young people to stay

  • Develop work ethics with young people

  • Educate kids about the media business

  • Encourage kids to take advantage of opportunities

Other
  • Get rid of dividend

  • Seasonal unemployment

  • Change welfare rules to encourage people to work

  • State/Local marketing of Alaska/Fairbanks as a good place to live/work

  • Tell lower 48 we are not their park, it is our home

  • Technology

  • Cost of energy and reasonable cost of transportation

  • Programs should be based on community needs

  • Tie or Interaction with .. geoeconomic/geopolitical connection

  • Education and training with workplace harassment (how to avoid and address if no resolution, exists in Fairbanks and is increasing)

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Affordable Medical/Dental Care | Family Violence | Infrastructure Planning | Substance Abuse



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