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Judy Petersen talks about grants. Recorded 9/22/2021.

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[00:00:01.000]All right. Do you want to get started here? Mike, you want to start us off this morning with an introduction and help us get going?
[00:00:08.260]Okay. Well, I am Mike Burge, Economic Development Director here in Valentine. I think Brianna is going to join us here as well.
[00:00:17.220]We'll let her introduce herself and talk about what she's doing.
[00:00:21.080]But today's program is Judy Peterson from Central Nebraska Economic Development District talking about some grant opportunities that we might all want to be looking into.
[00:00:30.080]So we'll do more with Judy coming up here in just a minute, but let's go around and let Judy know who all is on the call.
[00:00:36.720]So Shelby.
[00:00:41.180]Yeah. Hi, good morning. My name is Shelby Reagan. I started this summer as the new director at Holt County Economic Development.
[00:00:49.920]I wanted to thank you all for letting me join the Rural Rendezvous group and glad I was able to make it this week. So looking forward to it.
[00:00:55.980]Karen Anderson with the Scottsdale Caring United Chamber of Commerce.
[00:01:01.900]Paula. Paula Abbott with Western Nebraska Community College.
[00:01:09.860]I'm Shauna Mashick with Chapel Community Development.
[00:01:18.760]Emily. I'm Emily with Bassett City and I'm the Economic Development Director.
[00:01:27.340]Carrie.
[00:01:30.380]Carrie Rent with Northwest Nebraska Tourism in Chadron.
[00:01:36.880]Bill.
[00:01:39.640]Philip Jensen, Great Place Communications, Chadron.
[00:01:47.600]Let's see, Sean.
[00:01:49.100]Sean Caskey is, oh, he's going to turn his mic on.
[00:02:00.120]Go ahead.
[00:02:01.580]Can't hear you, Sean.
[00:02:04.260]No sound.
[00:02:06.660]Any more now?
[00:02:11.060]Yes.
[00:02:11.940]All right.
[00:02:13.000]So sorry to shut my door.
[00:02:14.300]I apologize.
[00:02:14.720]Sean Caskey.
[00:02:16.440]Rural Prosperity Extension Educator based out of Broken Bow, Custer County, serving
[00:02:20.600]eight counties.
[00:02:21.140]And I'm Jenny Nixon.
[00:02:23.900]I'm the Rural Prosperity Nebraska Educator in the Northwest Panhandle.
[00:02:27.780]Who have we missed?
[00:02:28.880]I just joined.
[00:02:34.020]This is Andrea McClintock, Executive Director for Docenary Development.
[00:02:37.360]Awesome.
[00:02:39.260]All right.
[00:02:41.820]Judy, that's the group today.
[00:02:43.340]Right now, anyway.
[00:02:44.180]Okay.
[00:02:46.060]Well, thank you for inviting me to speak.
[00:02:48.700]I see your invites, and I apologize.
[00:02:52.720]I'm not involved as much as I have been.
[00:02:56.080]I hope to maybe get a staff person.
[00:02:58.860]We're going to have a new staff person starting October 1st, and so I might get them involved
[00:03:04.780]in this, because we all can't be everywhere at once.
[00:03:08.800]So Mike asked me to talk a little bit about some things that we've got.
[00:03:15.760]I'm going, and let's see, you've got it so that I can share my screen, right?
[00:03:23.860]Okay.
[00:03:24.800]All right.
[00:03:25.740]Let me see if I can find.
[00:03:27.100]Okay.
[00:03:29.440]All right.
[00:03:30.920]So I just wanted to give you just some very basic information.
[00:03:36.660]Can you see my screen?
[00:03:38.400]Yes, we can, Judy.
[00:03:43.360]Okay.
[00:03:44.160]Wonderful.
[00:03:44.880]Wonderful.
[00:03:45.460]All right.
[00:03:46.820]So let's see if it lets me go to the next one.
[00:03:50.240]All right.
[00:03:50.940]So for just as a little education, for the development district,
[00:03:58.040]we get our funding from a variety of sources.
[00:04:01.680]One of our sources is membership funds from our counties and communities.
[00:04:07.880]And that's at $1.50 per capita.
[00:04:11.500]The counties pay for the rural population.
[00:04:14.460]The communities pay for the rural population.
[00:04:15.160]The communities pay for their population.
[00:04:16.640]We receive some funds from the Nebraska legislature.
[00:04:21.040]We have for about the last four years.
[00:04:24.480]Up until about four years ago, we did not.
[00:04:26.840]So now they're seeing the value of what we're doing
[00:04:30.040]and they're wanting to help out.
[00:04:32.260]Another source that we have, we call it EDA,
[00:04:36.880]and it's the Economic Development Administration.
[00:04:40.880]And it is part of the Department of Commerce.
[00:04:44.860]And so we receive partnership planning grant funds.
[00:04:48.040]In order to get those funds, we have to show a match,
[00:04:53.320]a one-to-one match.
[00:04:54.440]And so that's where the membership money comes in
[00:04:57.060]and things like that.
[00:04:57.960]So our partnership planning grant is just for us
[00:05:02.820]to go out and do good.
[00:05:03.880]That's kind of help these communities,
[00:05:06.160]let's do some good.
[00:05:07.380]So through the American Rescue Plan Act,
[00:05:14.560]a number of agencies and entities have gotten funds.
[00:05:17.880]And so now they're starting to funnel all this down.
[00:05:20.600]And EDA is no different.
[00:05:22.600]One, maybe I'll just go to the back here.
[00:05:28.700]Okay, so one of their funding sources
[00:05:37.160]is a Build Back Better program.
[00:05:39.700]It is mostly some large construction,
[00:05:44.260]projects, and that application is due next month,
[00:05:48.720]October 16th.
[00:05:50.220]So I know some people that are working
[00:05:52.520]on those feverishly.
[00:05:53.980]And there's a tourism.
[00:05:56.840]We haven't really looked at that too much yet.
[00:05:59.520]There's no application deadline.
[00:06:01.380]But what we do know is that the tourism activity
[00:06:08.220]needs to be owned, publicly owned.
[00:06:10.660]And so, you know, we're looking
[00:06:13.960]at what are some of those opportunities
[00:06:17.460]for what do we have in our region.
[00:06:19.980]The next one is economic adjustment.
[00:06:23.340]It's due March of 2022.
[00:06:25.360]It's for some long-term programs.
[00:06:27.380]And I think it probably has a mixture of things.
[00:06:32.680]And we'll talk about that in a little bit.
[00:06:35.420]The state of Nebraska is receiving some funds
[00:06:40.340]from EDA, a separate allotment of funds
[00:06:43.660]and from what I've heard,
[00:06:45.080]it is primarily tourism and planning.
[00:06:47.940]It's up to the state as to how to distribute.
[00:06:50.500]And I don't know all the details about the tourism.
[00:06:54.440]I don't know that it's like hard, fast,
[00:06:58.000]like construction projects,
[00:06:59.700]maybe more like marketing type things,
[00:07:02.480]but we're still unsure about all of the details with that.
[00:07:07.000]So I'm going to go back up here.
[00:07:10.500]And I think there's one more.
[00:07:12.580]There's one with a,
[00:07:13.560]whole whole communities that of course we don't qualify for.
[00:07:18.760]And I think there might be one other,
[00:07:20.940]but these are the ones that if we were to apply,
[00:07:24.520]these are the ones that we would apply to.
[00:07:26.980]The other ones that I want to talk to you about is the good job challenge.
[00:07:31.740]And this is more of a programmatic type of opportunity.
[00:07:37.140]I guess I can,
[00:07:38.720]I can do this so that.
[00:07:43.460]I'm trying to see how I can get the screen so that it's just that slide.
[00:07:50.280]Oh, well.
[00:07:50.800]You just need to click your slideshow at the bottom, right?
[00:07:55.300]Right before you.
[00:07:56.160]Oh, there it is.
[00:07:56.900]There we go.
[00:08:00.240]Okay.
[00:08:00.800]All right.
[00:08:01.720]I was, I was clicking on the wrong thing.
[00:08:03.900]So, so this is a good job challenge.
[00:08:07.620]This is funds for programmatic activities.
[00:08:10.180]And the grant application is due.
[00:08:13.360]January 22nd of 2022.
[00:08:15.340]Now Mike and Shelby and Brianna and I were on a call this morning.
[00:08:21.420]We got together with all of our economic development directors in our
[00:08:26.580]region.
[00:08:26.920]We have 14 counties and we have,
[00:08:30.000]and I haven't really counted them on my fingers.
[00:08:32.900]We have about 10 economic development directors that are in our region.
[00:08:37.380]And so we reached out and we had a call about two weeks ago.
[00:08:43.260]Saying, okay, we've got some opportunities here.
[00:08:46.580]What do we need in our region?
[00:08:48.300]And one of the things that they really funneled down to was skilled
[00:08:55.380]workforce, education, work, career opportunities,
[00:08:59.080]trying to keep our young people in our region and
[00:09:05.080]give them the education for the jobs that they can stay here.
[00:09:10.660]And what kind of job, you know,
[00:09:13.160]what kind of education do they need?
[00:09:15.100]And so what we have in our region,
[00:09:19.020]we are very blessed to have four community colleges.
[00:09:24.980]Actually, we've got Northeast Economic,
[00:09:27.380]or Northeast Community College, Central Community College is in Ord.
[00:09:31.980]We have Mid Plains, which is in Broken Bow and Valentine.
[00:09:36.280]And then we have Western Community College that serves the Western part of
[00:09:41.060]Cherry County from Miami.
[00:09:43.060]So what we're trying to figure out is how can we,
[00:09:50.340]we know there's things that are going on individually in small pieces in our
[00:09:56.940]region for career opportunities, maybe some internships.
[00:10:02.160]And what can we do to bring everyone together to be able to create a
[00:10:11.220]opportunities,
[00:10:12.960]for our students or for people that are out of school that,
[00:10:17.860]you know, they just don't know what they want, you know, and to do,
[00:10:22.440]and what career opportunities are available to them and what kind of
[00:10:26.780]education can we provide. So that's where we've kind of started.
[00:10:31.120]We we had members of our little group provide some questions because we
[00:10:38.660]kind of funneled down to a target of doing some,
[00:10:42.860]surveys with schools and businesses to start out with.
[00:10:45.700]And when I say schools, it was more like administration and counselors,
[00:10:51.980]faculty, things like that. What are they seeing?
[00:10:54.960]And then what are businesses needing? What are they looking for?
[00:10:59.660]What kinds of things are, you know, are they needing?
[00:11:02.660]Is that manufacturing? Is it trade?
[00:11:05.320]Manufacturing trades in childcare were the three top kind of workforce needs
[00:11:11.620]that,
[00:11:12.760]that our group identified.
[00:11:14.360]And so what we did was we put together some,
[00:11:18.020]a draft survey for each one of those groups,
[00:11:21.360]school and workforce.
[00:11:23.140]And this morning at nine o'clock, we had our second meeting.
[00:11:27.740]And so we reviewed some of those questions and survey questions and kind of
[00:11:35.240]made a plan.
[00:11:35.900]Our plan is going to be that we're going to get the surveys out to
[00:11:42.660]our economic development directors for them to funnel out to schools and
[00:11:49.260]businesses.
[00:11:51.060]And for those communities that don't have that, then we're, as a district,
[00:11:56.520]we're going to reach out to the communities directly,
[00:11:59.200]but we're going to get these surveys out as quickly as we can and try to get
[00:12:04.560]responses back by October 15th.
[00:12:07.820]Because if we can't really do a lot,
[00:12:12.560]until we know what the answers are that they're giving us.
[00:12:16.300]Now we've talked about once we get those results,
[00:12:19.720]do we need to do some surveying of our students?
[00:12:24.140]And so while we're getting this, these surveys out,
[00:12:28.540]we're going to start researching as to what kind of student surveys are
[00:12:35.580]available. If that's, you know, if we're going to make that step,
[00:12:39.080]what are community colleges doing right now?
[00:12:42.460]Do any of them have apprentice programs or any internship programs?
[00:12:49.500]Are schools working with businesses? Some are, some aren't, you know,
[00:12:54.020]what do those programs look like?
[00:12:56.820]Are there any models, you know,
[00:13:02.300]that are out there that we could look at and do those include any like
[00:13:08.500]incentives? How do we keep those kids engaged?
[00:13:12.360]And, and continuing on. And so there's a lot of,
[00:13:18.400]a lot of research that we're going to be doing in the next three weeks to be
[00:13:24.960]able to pull a lot of that information together, just to know what's going on.
[00:13:29.120]What we want to be able to do with all of this information is identify a path
[00:13:35.280]that we think would be good for our region to to make some of the
[00:13:42.260]these educational opportunities a reality.
[00:13:45.520]We know that in
[00:13:50.060]I've done some research with the Department of Education.
[00:13:52.900]There are programs in some of the bigger towns
[00:13:56.360]that are like a career academy.
[00:14:00.000]My granddaughter actually went to the career academy,
[00:14:03.160]went through that in Lincoln, and she was going to classes
[00:14:08.660]in at Southeast Community College while she was in high school.
[00:14:12.160]And it was part of that path.
[00:14:14.020]And she's going to be a pastry chef, which is cool.
[00:14:18.940]And so we want to be able to reach those kids when they're younger
[00:14:23.660]and see how we can help them with their career path
[00:14:28.480]and their education and keep them.
[00:14:30.000]So our next steps really are to get those surveys out,
[00:14:35.500]get the results, identify any potential interest by businesses, research.
[00:14:42.060]Any programs that are existing and develop some partnerships
[00:14:46.880]and see what we can do to apply for some grant funds
[00:14:52.160]for this Good Jobs Challenge.
[00:14:53.560]They can be some significant dollars.
[00:14:56.280]It could be like a million dollars that we could apply for
[00:15:01.540]to see what we can do in our region.
[00:15:03.500]There's a lot of money being thrown at each one of these pots.
[00:15:07.720]This is going to be an opportunity or grant
[00:15:11.960]that would be considered on the national level.
[00:15:18.820]Each one of the United States is broken up into different EDA regions.
[00:15:27.300]Ours is Region 7.
[00:15:29.120]There is going to be someone from Region 7
[00:15:32.160]that is going to be on the scoring team on the national level.
[00:15:38.280]They would be an advocate for us.
[00:15:41.860]And so we're going to put our best foot forward.
[00:15:45.380]I'm not an educator.
[00:15:46.560]I will tell you that right now.
[00:15:48.800]But we want to see what we can do
[00:15:51.460]because everybody talks about this is what we need,
[00:15:54.760]but how do we get it started?
[00:15:56.540]We know little things are happening,
[00:15:58.560]but how can we do it in a big way?
[00:16:00.400]Does anybody have any questions about that?
[00:16:04.200]This is Karen in Scottsbluff.
[00:16:10.580]So does every...
[00:16:11.760]Does the economic development group
[00:16:13.440]know what region they're in?
[00:16:15.040]What are you talking about as far as...
[00:16:21.820]Well, you just said you're region seven.
[00:16:23.760]So what would Scottsbluff be?
[00:16:25.500]And does the...
[00:16:26.540]We're just a...
[00:16:27.820]We don't have economic development
[00:16:29.580]under our umbrella.
[00:16:30.500]Okay.
[00:16:32.340]So the state of Nebraska is under EDA's region seven.
[00:16:36.240]Okay.
[00:16:37.220]So there's about six to eight, maybe,
[00:16:41.660]states that are in each region.
[00:16:44.720]Okay.
[00:16:45.560]So the entire state of Nebraska
[00:16:47.340]is in the EDA region seven.
[00:16:49.680]Okay.
[00:16:50.800]I will tell you that,
[00:16:52.660]you know, when you talk to the EDA reps,
[00:16:56.600]the more collaboration,
[00:16:59.280]the better it looks for the application.
[00:17:04.160]And I know that sometimes they look at, like,
[00:17:08.520]multi-state or multi-region.
[00:17:11.520]District and things like that.
[00:17:13.360]I do know that in the Northeast part
[00:17:16.920]for Northeast Community College,
[00:17:18.880]they are trying to go through the economic adjustment
[00:17:23.020]for something similar.
[00:17:25.440]They're not looking at, like, the high school students.
[00:17:29.140]They're looking more for the people
[00:17:30.860]that are out of high school
[00:17:32.640]and career opportunities that way.
[00:17:35.180]And one of the things that they're doing,
[00:17:38.040]which really tripped my trigger
[00:17:40.940]and,
[00:17:41.480]Carla, on our staff,
[00:17:42.860]was they're trying to fold in
[00:17:46.100]having a mobile education trailer.
[00:17:50.140]And so it would travel around different communities
[00:17:57.380]and stuff like that.
[00:17:58.660]We like that idea.
[00:18:00.840]We think it would be great
[00:18:03.380]that when we think about our entire region
[00:18:06.480]and all of our schools,
[00:18:08.340]how do you get one trailer around all these places?
[00:18:11.460]Now, this grant opportunity
[00:18:13.760]is not going to fund a trailer.
[00:18:15.260]We would have to find funds in other locations for a trailer.
[00:18:20.140]Would it be great to have a trailer
[00:18:23.180]for each community college to be able to hit their area?
[00:18:26.520]That would be fabulous.
[00:18:27.980]But right now we're at the point
[00:18:30.780]where we just want to gather the information
[00:18:33.240]and see where all of this leads us.
[00:18:35.920]Judy, if they would be utilized working with
[00:18:40.380]junior high, middle school, as well as high school,
[00:18:43.700]then you could apply for the governor's
[00:18:45.820]Youth Talent Initiative grant.
[00:18:47.340]Some other places have created STEM trailers
[00:18:52.280]utilizing those funds.
[00:18:55.200]And if you reach out to NPPD, who did their original trailer,
[00:18:59.240]when they receive their grant funds,
[00:19:02.260]part of the requirements is that they could make it
[00:19:04.800]easy to duplicate for other people
[00:19:08.960]and provide that information.
[00:19:10.360]So Dawson Area Development created one
[00:19:12.720]just for our seven school districts,
[00:19:14.240]but then the school districts can also utilize
[00:19:16.820]the one that was done by ESU 10
[00:19:18.600]and Dawson Public Power District.
[00:19:20.160]So they could potentially have a STEM trailer
[00:19:23.100]up to at a minimum of probably about four weeks a month
[00:19:26.840]or a year.
[00:19:27.420]Okay. Okay. Awesome.
[00:19:29.940]I appreciate that very much.
[00:19:32.080]Yep.
[00:19:32.580]So we did look into USDA
[00:19:37.520]and USDA,
[00:19:39.840]would have some funding for a trailer and equipment,
[00:19:43.100]but we could not have anybody under the age of 18
[00:19:48.400]in that trailer.
[00:19:49.260]So it kind of defeats the purpose of what, you know,
[00:19:52.560]doesn't mean we're not going to think about that
[00:19:54.860]for another different program or something,
[00:19:58.000]but when it comes to, you know,
[00:20:00.560]impacting our youth,
[00:20:02.860]that would not work for the trailer and stuff.
[00:20:05.940]So I appreciate you letting me know
[00:20:07.420]about those other opportunities.
[00:20:09.140]Any other questions about that?
[00:20:12.980]Okay.
[00:20:17.180]The other opportunity I wanted to share with you
[00:20:21.180]is the USDA Emergency Rural Health Care Grant.
[00:20:23.920]They have two tracks, track one and track two.
[00:20:27.460]Track one is more kind of right there
[00:20:31.280]in the hospitals, if you will.
[00:20:35.360]Track two is a little more,
[00:20:39.120]more visionary in my estimation.
[00:20:43.400]We're talking big dollars and all that stuff.
[00:20:46.220]But when you have a short amount of time
[00:20:47.960]to get these applications in,
[00:20:49.580]I figure for us, we want to be able to
[00:20:52.900]make the greatest impact that we can
[00:20:55.960]with individually.
[00:20:59.380]And so October 12th is the deadline for that.
[00:21:05.220]The activities need to be tied to COVID.
[00:21:09.100]The entire state of Nebraska received
[00:21:11.900]a total of $2.8 million,
[00:21:13.640]so it's not going to go very far.
[00:21:15.500]You have to be a public body,
[00:21:19.300]nonprofit association, or tribe to be eligible.
[00:21:22.200]And grants are from 35% to 75%.
[00:21:27.340]USDA has their percentage,
[00:21:30.460]and it's kind of similar.
[00:21:32.000]I don't know if any of you have ever worked
[00:21:33.620]with their community facilities program.
[00:21:35.740]And so it depends on the income
[00:21:39.080]of what that community is,
[00:21:41.760]and they're using the numbers from the 2010 census.
[00:21:45.320]So some communities may be eligible for 35% grant funds.
[00:21:51.420]Some may be eligible for 75%.
[00:21:54.560]We have some in our region that are eligible for 0% or 15%.
[00:22:01.000]So the activities are capacity for vaccine distribution
[00:22:07.960]and storage.
[00:22:09.060]Medical supplies and equipment, revenue loss, telehealth,
[00:22:13.380]construction, some vaccine testing, staffing for that,
[00:22:18.840]and then support equipment and tied to food banks and stuff.
[00:22:23.280]And so just so you're aware, we have two hospitals that we're
[00:22:29.000]working with right now.
[00:22:30.280]One is Brown County.
[00:22:32.320]And they are kind of doing a combination of some things for some
[00:22:39.040]of the hospitals that we're working with right now.
[00:22:41.680]And one of the things that we're working with is some of the
[00:22:45.020]facilities that we're working with right now.
[00:22:47.020]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:22:48.920]working with right now.
[00:22:49.920]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:22:52.220]working with right now.
[00:22:53.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:22:54.260]working with right now.
[00:22:55.260]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:22:56.220]working with right now.
[00:22:57.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:22:58.220]working with right now.
[00:22:59.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:00.220]working with right now.
[00:23:01.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:02.220]working with right now.
[00:23:03.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:04.220]working with right now.
[00:23:05.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:06.220]working with right now.
[00:23:07.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:08.220]working with right now.
[00:23:09.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:10.220]working with right now.
[00:23:11.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:12.220]working with right now.
[00:23:13.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:14.220]working with right now.
[00:23:15.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:16.220]working with right now.
[00:23:17.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:18.220]working with right now.
[00:23:19.220]And so we're working with some of the facilities that we're
[00:23:20.220]working with right now.
[00:23:21.220]And so we're helping both of those right now.
[00:23:22.220]And so we're helping both of those right now.
[00:23:23.220]Like I said, we've got a short deadline.
[00:23:24.220]know if any of you have ever worked with USDA. We've had very good luck working with others.
[00:23:31.120]Anthony is up in Norfolk, and then Dave Holtens down in Kearney. And Carla in our office has
[00:23:40.700]worked hand in hand with both of them on USDA community facility grants. So we feel like we've
[00:23:47.640]got a good handle on, you know, the paperwork and the documentation that is needed for this.
[00:23:53.620]But I think the, you know, if, if you're interested, if you've got anybody that's
[00:23:58.720]interested, you'll want to, to reach out to those USDA reps to see what, what can be done
[00:24:07.300]for those hospitals and if they're eligible. And that's basically about all I was going to
[00:24:16.280]share with you today. Any questions about the emergency rural health care grants?
[00:24:23.020]Is there anybody in your areas that you know of that have, have an interest in that? Have you
[00:24:35.860]heard about the health care stuff? I really wasn't aware of that, Judy,
[00:24:44.400]and I don't know. I need to bring that up with like our hospital administrator and see
[00:24:47.840]if they've looked into those kinds of things or not. And just so you're aware,
[00:24:52.420]Mike, you and I talked about it, and I did make a call and never had a call return. So I don't
[00:24:59.680]know if somebody was out and then just missed it or what. Okay, well, we'll follow up on that.
[00:25:06.780]I was going to go back to the trailer idea and the jobs challenge and stuff.
[00:25:13.420]As we had our meeting earlier on this morning, I was kind of thinking about,
[00:25:19.140]I don't know, and Paula might be able to
[00:25:21.820]add some insight into this as well.
[00:25:24.860]Mid-Planes has a trailer that they use for heavy equipment operations or whatever
[00:25:31.360]that you can get in there and act like you're playing a backhoe or whatever.
[00:25:35.320]ever um and i think somebody this morning said that northeast had some kind of a trailer and i
[00:25:41.620]wondered if there'd be any way to put together a consortium of um all the community colleges that
[00:25:48.100]serve the central nebraska area and share those resources or maybe the western nebraska community
[00:25:56.140]college one can't come east of highway 61 and the mid plains can't go west of highway 61 or
[00:26:03.280]something but it seems like if there's resources out there that we could maybe share somehow we
[00:26:08.520]should all get together and see if we could figure out something that would work on that aspect of it
[00:26:14.200]so paula do you guys have a trailer or something like that you use out in western nebraska
[00:26:18.320]we do and i i appreciate you saying that mike we have a welding trailer so it's fully
[00:26:23.880]set up for with four welders we take that around the panhandle but we have heavy equipment
[00:26:30.140]simulators but they're too big to put in a trailer
[00:26:32.700]so doug and i've been talking about how how do we get another trailer with that those simulators
[00:26:38.860]it would be really nice if we could share our resources throughout the state though instead of
[00:26:44.940]everybody having their own and then you have the expense of upgrading them and and all that so
[00:26:50.200]i i'd be interested and i know doug mater would be interested in maybe attending some of these
[00:26:56.040]meetings just so we can all kind of be on the same page i appreciate judy's leadership on this
[00:27:01.360]because this this is really a good opportunity to do that and i think it's a good opportunity to
[00:27:02.680]idea uh jenny i only say your name because you sent out the invite so maybe someone else needs
[00:27:09.580]to do this i wonder if we can create like a google drive folder or something a shared folder in some
[00:27:15.980]cloud that we can all add information to about that i know here in lexington as ccc partnered
[00:27:24.440]with the city and tyson and they created an industrial technology training area with a
[00:27:32.660]in classrooms for like program logic and megatronics and all the stuff that's way over
[00:27:38.160]my head but they have also started to create um they're doing a pilot in lexington i believe
[00:27:44.960]another community or two of um smaller packs of similar stuff and that will go out to the
[00:27:52.100]schools and they're working with high school students and they're portable to the point where
[00:27:56.720]if covid um makes schools go remote they can take it home and they can do it but
[00:28:02.640]it's about you know kind of wiring up controls and understanding how that works and the
[00:28:07.220]programming board um so that's a huge um asset that i think they would easily entertain doing
[00:28:15.360]in other towns if you could help them find some businesses to sponsor the purchase of the
[00:28:20.560]equipment uh and then you were talking about career academies uh where we serve nine
[00:28:27.860]communities it's hard to put one building in one community and and make it feel like
[00:28:32.620]it's not specifically for them and so what i'm working on as a long-term plan is to create a
[00:28:39.180]decentralized career academy and so utilizing what each of our seven school districts might
[00:28:46.120]already have in place one has a great welding lab another one has some maker space equipment
[00:28:52.300]and another one provide partners with ccc to provide like cna and med aid classes that high
[00:29:01.260]school students are taking.
[00:29:02.600]But really only from that community and so we can help either provide additional resources
[00:29:10.040]equipment if we can help coordinate or provide transportation so schools students can go
[00:29:17.000]between towns then we can do a decentralized for the whole area best leveraging our resources
[00:29:24.980]versus creating the same thing in every town or just one town benefiting from everyone
[00:29:30.560]coming there.
[00:29:31.200]So those are some I mean.
[00:29:32.580]We're right on line with what you guys are doing and it's slow and steady but if anyone
[00:29:38.740]has any questions I'm super happy to share what we've done or what our plans are.
[00:29:43.720]Thank you very much.
[00:29:46.760]I appreciate that.
[00:29:47.840]I love the idea of the decentralized career academy.
[00:29:51.360]I really do.
[00:29:52.360]Judy would you share your survey?
[00:29:58.880]I know we have a committee that's trying to figure out what are the needs.
[00:30:02.560]Of business and the needs of school and what do we need to do?
[00:30:06.020]So if you've already got a template created, would you share?
[00:30:10.040]Yeah, it's pretty rough.
[00:30:12.260]We've added a couple more questions to it, but I think the more that we can
[00:30:17.740]share amongst ourselves now, you know, you know, it depends on the area.
[00:30:26.960]Are we interested in, you know, partnering with others, you know, that's something that
[00:30:32.540]my group, you know, this is a group effort.
[00:30:35.140]So I have to go to the group and say, okay, are you willing, you know, and because there's,
[00:30:41.820]there's always pros and cons to everything, but I am, I have no problem with sharing,
[00:30:47.920]you know, surveys whatsoever.
[00:30:49.940]And we don't know where this is going to go.
[00:30:53.120]We, this is exciting that you guys are interested in this and you have some resources that we can
[00:31:01.120]learn from.
[00:31:02.940]And see how you're doing, because that's how we're going to figure out what's the best model
[00:31:07.380]in our, you know, in our region and stuff.
[00:31:09.980]So I think we have to partner.
[00:31:12.640]I would much rather if we don't have the, you know, quality of life things people are looking
[00:31:20.800]for or the jobs that they want in our area, I'd much rather have them land in Valentine
[00:31:26.540]or Sydney or O'Neill than going out of state.
[00:31:28.960]And even if we can keep them rural, that's great.
[00:31:32.560]And so I think it's one of those things that if this place isn't a great fit, we help them
[00:31:38.600]connect with areas in Nebraska that are and vice versa.
[00:31:41.640]And hopefully we're all kind of scratching each other's backs and providing referrals.
[00:31:45.140]And it's mutually beneficial for everybody.
[00:31:47.840]I think that's about the only way we can do it because every place doesn't have the exact
[00:31:53.900]same jobs or entertainment or stuff like that.
[00:31:56.940]And so people are looking for different things and we need to rely on each other.
[00:32:02.480]And then keep them in state and grow our total population.
[00:32:06.200]Absolutely.
[00:32:07.600]Absolutely.
[00:32:08.560]Where would you like me to send these surveys to and then for distribution?
[00:32:17.680]You know, I do have a cloud folder that I keep our recordings in and other materials.
[00:32:26.200]And that's listed on your invitation.
[00:32:28.820]We can certainly put those materials there and everybody can get
[00:32:32.460]back to it and download as they want.
[00:32:34.120]Or we could send it to the listserv if you like.
[00:32:36.220]Tell me what you want to do.
[00:32:38.980]Jenny, how about I send them to you and then you can decide what's the best way for you guys.
[00:32:43.960]How's that sound?
[00:32:44.760]Okay.
[00:32:45.460]Sounds great.
[00:32:46.240]Yeah.
[00:32:46.900]We're all about sharing.
[00:32:48.940]Okay.
[00:32:50.420]Okay.
[00:32:51.700]Great.
[00:32:53.180]Great.
[00:32:55.460]Can I put a real quick plug in for the broadband initiative I know in some of your areas?
[00:33:03.080]You've been, the districts have been reaching out to you to do your broadband testing and
[00:33:09.280]things like that.
[00:33:10.000]I think we're going to do a big push through Every Door Direct in our region.
[00:33:16.040]But, you know, this is a project that the whole entire, all of the districts are doing
[00:33:22.380]for broadband.
[00:33:23.480]And so I would just encourage you guys to keep doing your speed test because it's not
[00:33:30.760]just one area of the state.
[00:33:32.420]We need it all over the state.
[00:33:34.660]So I really would like to put a plug in for you guys to do that so we can take next steps
[00:33:39.540]to make broadband better for our region because that's going to create those jobs.
[00:33:47.380]That's going to keep the people in our state as well.
[00:33:50.260]Okay.
[00:33:56.940]Any other questions or comments?
[00:34:02.400]What do you guys think about Andrea's idea of putting together a spreadsheet
[00:34:15.200]that might list resources in the different parts of the state?
[00:34:18.980]I think that's a good idea.
[00:34:23.840]I think if everybody knows what's available out there and utilize it somehow.
[00:34:27.980]I don't know, Paula, you can probably answer this better than me,
[00:34:32.380]and I can speculate on it.
[00:34:33.960]Do the community colleges play well together?
[00:34:37.420]Do they get along and share resources?
[00:34:40.460]You know, I think we work on that all the time.
[00:34:46.940]But, I mean, I definitely see other community colleges reaching out to us and vice versa.
[00:34:52.500]You know, we do have the borders that we have to be cautious of,
[00:34:56.960]but I do see us working a lot better together.
[00:34:59.280]So, thank you.
[00:35:02.360]We have Central Community College and Mid-Plains that service our area,
[00:35:08.420]and we split borders, I believe.
[00:35:10.420]And so, they work really well together.
[00:35:14.440]If it's programs they don't offer and the other does.
[00:35:17.400]When it's the same program, not so much.
[00:35:19.740]So, but we got some CARES grant money,
[00:35:23.420]and I was looking for some training opportunities.
[00:35:29.400]And so, we, one, offered.
[00:35:32.340]Some, the other didn't.
[00:35:33.220]You know, things like that.
[00:35:34.400]So, we've gone through a lot of that recently.
[00:35:36.760]I was just thinking that, you know,
[00:35:44.480]with the trailer idea that we were talking about,
[00:35:46.680]if they all had a trailer and they all focused on something different,
[00:35:50.760]maybe we could, maybe it would take some type of an interlocal agreement
[00:35:54.740]or something that they could, northeast or central,
[00:35:57.660]could bring a trailer to Valentine and mid-plains could take it to Norfolk.
[00:36:02.320]And then not, as I think Paula said earlier,
[00:36:05.140]duplicate the services of everybody trying to have their own trailer
[00:36:08.360]and their own equipment and stuff like that and share that.
[00:36:12.120]Because in the end, we're all going to benefit from exposing
[00:36:15.900]potential new job takers to that stuff.
[00:36:20.100]You know, and I think when we're talking workforce training
[00:36:23.860]and those kinds of skills,
[00:36:25.540]community colleges are really more flexible
[00:36:27.920]than when it comes to the academic side.
[00:36:30.220]So, you know,
[00:36:32.300]because I'm thinking, I know Doug reaches out
[00:36:33.960]to all of his peers in the community colleges
[00:36:36.400]and they do a lot of that.
[00:36:38.360]So I think this would be a great idea.
[00:36:40.020]I really do.
[00:36:41.260]So what would it take to kind of
[00:36:46.240]put that picture together?
[00:36:47.680]So maybe the strengths
[00:36:50.760]of each of the different community colleges
[00:36:52.520]and negotiating how that might be shared.
[00:36:57.200]I think we need to have a Zoom meeting
[00:37:02.280]or in-person meeting, probably start,
[00:37:04.280]we could do it by Zoom
[00:37:05.380]and have the prospective people.
[00:37:08.800]Paula would know, maybe she's the one
[00:37:10.920]or who do you talk to at each community college
[00:37:13.320]to get them to a meeting
[00:37:16.640]where we can discuss it.
[00:37:17.760]I'm sure that it's like
[00:37:20.120]any other government type thing.
[00:37:21.440]It would take a while and several meetings
[00:37:23.480]and those kinds of things to get that together.
[00:37:26.280]But at least we could start that discussion
[00:37:28.940]and maybe get something going
[00:37:32.260]sooner rather than later.
[00:37:33.400]And if it comes from EDs
[00:37:37.000]who are important collaborators
[00:37:40.120]with those community colleges,
[00:37:41.820]you know, like Andrea and Mike and,
[00:37:43.680]you know, Karen,
[00:37:45.000]you guys are all very important
[00:37:47.100]in each of your community college regions
[00:37:49.380]to say to them,
[00:37:50.960]we really want to look at a bigger picture
[00:37:54.740]where all of you have things to share
[00:37:57.760]and share a little larger.
[00:37:59.140]That would be awesome.
[00:38:02.240]Go ahead, Mike.
[00:38:06.340]Well, I was just saying,
[00:38:08.040]counties already contribute quite a bit
[00:38:10.940]to their community colleges,
[00:38:12.100]but I think you could probably get
[00:38:14.140]either employers on board
[00:38:16.100]to help with the budget
[00:38:16.960]to support that,
[00:38:17.880]county, cities, economic development groups.
[00:38:20.200]We just had to kind of figure out
[00:38:23.060]what it would take to,
[00:38:24.160]how it would look
[00:38:25.180]and what it would cost
[00:38:26.040]to run such a program, I guess.
[00:38:27.520]Well, I think that...
[00:38:31.260]Go ahead.
[00:38:32.220]Go ahead, Andrea.
[00:38:32.920]I was going to say,
[00:38:34.360]I would start most,
[00:38:35.680]all the community colleges
[00:38:37.020]have a department,
[00:38:41.280]whatever it may be called,
[00:38:42.680]that deals with industry trainings.
[00:38:44.800]And I would start with them
[00:38:47.240]because they're the ones that
[00:38:48.580]a lot of times we reach out to
[00:38:50.180]and coordinate with,
[00:38:51.820]or they are the ones
[00:38:53.200]that will help us establish programs
[00:38:55.100]that are needed by employers.
[00:38:58.160]And then if it needs to go higher up,
[00:39:00.580]then they would know who to involve
[00:39:02.200]but they would be the people
[00:39:04.380]that directly do the training
[00:39:06.680]and education piece
[00:39:08.160]in communities on industry issues.
[00:39:11.160]So I would probably start there.
[00:39:12.820]I have a couple of names
[00:39:13.840]I could add to a list.
[00:39:15.040]Well, and also the high schools
[00:39:18.200]have a lot going on too.
[00:39:19.360]I know Scottsville and Goering
[00:39:20.640]have career academies
[00:39:22.000]and they're trying not to duplicate.
[00:39:23.900]So they are doing different career academies
[00:39:27.560]where they can share.
[00:39:29.100]So I think the resources
[00:39:31.200]of what the high school
[00:39:32.180]are doing are important too.
[00:39:33.380]I know we've had some phenomenal internships
[00:39:35.860]done by Allick Manufacturing
[00:39:37.960]that maybe there's a template.
[00:39:39.680]I know Doug's Mater's been talking
[00:39:41.800]about sharing that template
[00:39:43.540]because we need to let business
[00:39:45.100]know what's available.
[00:39:46.200]You know, number one,
[00:39:48.100]we need to know their needs,
[00:39:49.160]but how do we fit those needs?
[00:39:51.860]So that's an important piece as well.
[00:39:54.260]I'd be willing to touch
[00:40:02.160]and talk to Doug and see
[00:40:03.220]because he would have
[00:40:03.880]all those connections
[00:40:04.800]at the community colleges.
[00:40:05.960]So how about if I start
[00:40:08.680]with talking to Doug
[00:40:09.600]and then Jenny,
[00:40:10.280]I can reach out to you
[00:40:11.500]and maybe you can help
[00:40:12.700]us all get together
[00:40:14.020]because you would have this list.
[00:40:15.980]And if Doug could give us
[00:40:18.380]the contact information for them,
[00:40:20.180]would that be a good start?
[00:40:21.520]Would you guys be OK with that?
[00:40:22.760]I think that would be
[00:40:25.960]a good place to start.
[00:40:26.920]And Karen is absolutely right
[00:40:28.480]that the high schools,
[00:40:29.580]somehow we need to mesh them in.
[00:40:32.140]And you do that a little bit later
[00:40:33.480]after you just talked
[00:40:34.700]with community colleges.
[00:40:35.760]I don't know.
[00:40:37.240]I can check with our
[00:40:40.120]local campus administrator
[00:40:41.960]and find out who at Mid Plains
[00:40:43.920]is in charge of their
[00:40:45.000]their trailer
[00:40:46.480]and those kind of programs.
[00:40:47.900]So we can find that out.
[00:40:50.020]Maybe we get everybody's names
[00:40:51.320]and put together
[00:40:52.080]yet another Zoom call.
[00:40:53.940]Yeah.
[00:40:54.920]Sean, were you going to add something?
[00:40:58.260]Yeah, I just, you know,
[00:40:59.480]at the high school level,
[00:41:00.480]of course, Custer County
[00:41:01.600]is called the
[00:41:02.120]what they call the capable program
[00:41:03.480]where there's a high school
[00:41:05.620]teacher who takes,
[00:41:07.420]who arranges apprenticeships
[00:41:09.900]or mentoring internships
[00:41:12.140]with the industries
[00:41:13.240]here in Broken Bow,
[00:41:14.920]mostly, but throughout the county,
[00:41:16.660]of course, with the three
[00:41:17.800]or four other high schools.
[00:41:18.860]So it's another workforce application
[00:41:21.420]at the high school level.
[00:41:22.340]And it's a really good program,
[00:41:24.300]takes a big commitment
[00:41:25.140]from the school district
[00:41:25.940]because they're the primary payer,
[00:41:27.740]but the industry does put in
[00:41:28.940]a little bit of money
[00:41:29.560]to pay for that person
[00:41:30.480]to make those relationships
[00:41:32.100]and get the high school students
[00:41:34.520]out to the industries in the county.
[00:41:35.880]It's a good program,
[00:41:37.360]but it does cost a little money.
[00:41:38.860]Well worth it.
[00:41:39.980]The other thing is, Jenny,
[00:41:42.340]from our internal end,
[00:41:44.580]we're updating sort of
[00:41:45.680]awareness issues,
[00:41:48.140]four page document
[00:41:49.700]and this list of
[00:41:52.040]community college networks,
[00:41:53.760]economic development folks
[00:41:54.760]in our respective regions,
[00:41:56.420]we're allowed to customize that.
[00:41:58.320]And so as we're,
[00:41:58.900]Jenny and I and our colleagues
[00:42:00.940]are out and about,
[00:42:01.580]we can,
[00:42:02.080]share your contacts
[00:42:03.700]and your resources
[00:42:04.480]like Dawson meant
[00:42:05.440]or Judy and Andrea mentioned here.
[00:42:09.800]So pretty excited
[00:42:10.960]about integrating this list
[00:42:12.080]into what we got coming out as well.
[00:42:13.780]Thank you.
[00:42:14.320]And we have a project
[00:42:20.460]that we had to gather
[00:42:21.700]and we found
[00:42:23.380]all the contact information
[00:42:25.940]for all of the superintendents
[00:42:27.580]of all of the states.
[00:42:28.680]And so we could easily get
[00:42:31.500]something
[00:42:32.060]sent out to
[00:42:33.500]whoever we want to send
[00:42:37.300]to school, any kind of a
[00:42:39.260]survey or something like that.
[00:42:41.460]Awesome. Well, I am going to take
[00:42:47.420]Judy's survey information.
[00:42:49.080]I'll send that out
[00:42:51.500]through the LISTSERV. Plus, I'm going to put it in our
[00:42:53.620]file that has
[00:42:55.420]today's recording.
[00:42:56.420]I'm going to
[00:42:59.580]wait for Paula to get me some
[00:43:02.040]community college contacts
[00:43:04.280]while she works with
[00:43:05.960]Doug. Once we
[00:43:08.080]get that, let's come back together. Maybe
[00:43:09.920]I'll give Mike a jingle and
[00:43:11.940]try and make something
[00:43:14.120]mesh here a little bit.
[00:43:15.660]See if we can't come up with a little bit of a plan
[00:43:17.940]to push this on a little bit
[00:43:20.080]farther forward.
[00:43:21.080]That would be good. I think this is
[00:43:26.000]something that maybe could benefit our whole
[00:43:28.060]region of western Nebraska.
[00:43:32.020]That sounds actually like the whole state might
[00:43:33.920]be benefited.
[00:43:35.040]If we can't find
[00:43:37.320]somebody else that's already done it,
[00:43:39.860]we might as well do it and set the precedent
[00:43:42.020]then.
[00:43:42.420]The more
[00:43:45.980]we can aggregate those kinds
[00:43:48.140]of things together, then
[00:43:49.500]it really strengthens our ability
[00:43:51.900]to go for the kind of grants that Judy
[00:43:54.100]is showing us. I think that's awesome.
[00:43:56.160]Do we have any other questions?
[00:44:02.000]Maybe we can hold the information
[00:44:07.580]ransom in exchange
[00:44:09.620]for keeping one or two
[00:44:11.720]rural legislative seats.
[00:44:13.140]Yeah.
[00:44:14.960]Maybe
[00:44:17.340]we can use that as leverage.
[00:44:19.120]There you go.
[00:44:20.620]Yeah.
[00:44:21.980]Judy, do you have any questions for
[00:44:25.520]our group of somehow that we might be able to help
[00:44:27.620]you with some of the information you
[00:44:29.440]presented today?
[00:44:30.520]No.
[00:44:31.980]I think starting to gather all
[00:44:33.920]that information is going to
[00:44:35.920]be very key.
[00:44:36.840]Our
[00:44:38.760]task were to get the
[00:44:41.840]survey out, but we're also going to start
[00:44:43.900]gathering that information about resources.
[00:44:46.100]What's going on in different communities?
[00:44:47.840]What's going on in the community colleges?
[00:44:49.680]We have
[00:44:53.780]a new person starting October
[00:44:55.460]1st. Her name
[00:44:57.780]is Amber Ross.
[00:44:59.040]She is originally from
[00:45:00.840]Callaway.
[00:45:01.960]She has been an intern in a number
[00:45:04.680]of economic development programs
[00:45:06.400]across the state.
[00:45:07.420]She was in Ravenna. She is right now.
[00:45:10.740]She's going to be coming
[00:45:12.580]to work with us.
[00:45:13.840]I believe
[00:45:16.500]that she is going to be the person
[00:45:18.180]that I want to
[00:45:20.020]ramrod this.
[00:45:22.220]She's young.
[00:45:23.740]She's a go-getter.
[00:45:26.260]I think this is a perfect
[00:45:28.420]project for her to
[00:45:30.140]jump into.
[00:45:31.940]We will get her involved as soon
[00:45:34.480]as she starts.
[00:45:35.120]We should keep, Judy, your peers
[00:45:40.820]in the loop as well
[00:45:42.560]from the other regions of the state.
[00:45:44.220]That would be awesome.
[00:45:45.740]Yes, absolutely.
[00:45:47.940]This might be
[00:45:52.400]an ongoing topic here on our rural
[00:45:54.440]rendezvous every once in a while as well
[00:45:56.220]and see how things are going with that.
[00:45:58.260]If there's any other
[00:46:00.440]questions for Judy,
[00:46:02.220]let's ask them while we've got access
[00:46:04.500]to her. Otherwise, are there
[00:46:06.740]topics for other future rural
[00:46:10.480]rendezvous talks that you want to know more
[00:46:12.500]about?
[00:46:12.780]I guess
[00:46:20.360]this is Sean and I've got to be careful.
[00:46:22.460]I'm not trying to get
[00:46:24.460]political or anything. I just want to let you know that the
[00:46:26.280]state leadership chamber
[00:46:27.460]just hosted a session yesterday on
[00:46:30.100]the
[00:46:31.900]workforce challenge. We're all hearing this.
[00:46:34.200]It's a statewide. Nebraska is short
[00:46:36.180]like, I don't know, 90,000
[00:46:37.880]job people to fill
[00:46:40.040]90,000 open jobs.
[00:46:41.400]Things
[00:46:43.660]like there used to be a few years ago
[00:46:46.220]the whole attract people to
[00:46:48.140]rural counties copying some of the
[00:46:50.100]Kansas legislation that did that
[00:46:51.960]and we're talking today about
[00:46:53.680]the EDA grants and these are all
[00:46:56.160]good. I brought that up to Brian
[00:46:58.060]Cox who was the
[00:46:59.140]chamber
[00:47:00.520]not Brian Cox, sorry, Brian
[00:47:03.660]Sloan, the Nebraska
[00:47:05.780]chamber director
[00:47:07.880]and the presentation was by
[00:47:10.220]Dr. Peter Longo who's a UNK political
[00:47:12.160]science professor which I believe
[00:47:14.060]Andrea knows as well.
[00:47:15.200]Back in the late 1800s
[00:47:18.480]Nebraska
[00:47:19.100]saw 10,000, 20,000
[00:47:22.380]people, immigrants from
[00:47:24.180]Europe and so
[00:47:25.580]while these workforce programs we're
[00:47:28.060]talking about, as I even mentioned
[00:47:29.900]some of the ones that we're talking about today
[00:47:32.200]and it's like those are all good Sean
[00:47:34.000]but that's not going to
[00:47:36.200]we're talking about hundreds
[00:47:37.840]of jobs and we're short
[00:47:39.320]many, many thousands of jobs
[00:47:41.660]and so I just wanted to share
[00:47:44.040]that that's what I heard yesterday and
[00:47:45.620]no surprise to any of you and
[00:47:47.540]I think you can go to the chamber's website
[00:47:49.780]and see some, that's a recorded presentation to the
[00:47:51.920]Nebraska State Chamber. I think
[00:47:53.920]it was hosted by the
[00:47:55.300]Nebraska leadership
[00:47:58.080]Roberto
[00:47:59.280]and Rick Nelson was the moderator
[00:48:02.160]yesterday so I'm just sharing, I'm not
[00:48:04.140]advocating, I'm just throwing that out there
[00:48:06.300]so
[00:48:06.620]That makes me think of a couple things Mike
[00:48:10.260]I know that
[00:48:12.580]I was
[00:48:13.280]obviously are my
[00:48:15.900]documentary development of Lexington very
[00:48:18.020]diverse and so it's
[00:48:20.160]great to hear how
[00:48:22.020]other communities are
[00:48:24.220]addressing
[00:48:26.120]being inclusive
[00:48:28.060]and how
[00:48:28.660]you
[00:48:29.300]get information to them and then get
[00:48:33.920]feedback back and things
[00:48:35.980]like that if anyone was doing anything
[00:48:38.040]special or at least
[00:48:40.100]trying something new that would be great to know
[00:48:42.260]and then the other thing
[00:48:44.200]I don't disagree that there's
[00:48:46.100]a crap ton of jobs out
[00:48:48.140]there but I will tell you I had
[00:48:50.220]a highly skilled guy that
[00:48:52.160]does mechanical maintenance and I
[00:48:54.220]sent his resume out to
[00:48:55.880]probably about 12 different
[00:48:58.040]entities that I thought might be big enough
[00:49:00.280]or had the equipment that he worked
[00:49:02.140]on and he got seven
[00:49:04.140]interviews yet
[00:49:05.900]not a single one of them had
[00:49:08.220]a job posted and so
[00:49:10.200]how do we help businesses
[00:49:12.240]fill jobs if
[00:49:14.000]they're not publicizing all their openings
[00:49:16.240]and I know it's difficult
[00:49:17.900]HR's
[00:49:19.500]overwhelmed and stuff like that but
[00:49:22.040]if anyone's
[00:49:24.600]doing specific efforts
[00:49:26.080]with businesses in their community
[00:49:28.000]to help promote the job
[00:49:29.900]I'd be interested to see
[00:49:32.100]what they're doing there as well
[00:49:33.200]Our Department of Labor
[00:49:40.380]is doing something different
[00:49:41.520]they're doing a drive-by job fair
[00:49:43.960]where they ask the employers to send
[00:49:46.260]information on what openings
[00:49:48.060]they have
[00:49:48.860]and they'll just drive by and here's
[00:49:52.080]a swag bag full of jobs
[00:49:54.000]we'll see how it goes
[00:49:55.760]I've heard that there's been others in the state
[00:49:57.640]that have done it so we're doing it next week
[00:49:59.860]we've had some small successes
[00:50:05.900]with those
[00:50:06.620]and so I think
[00:50:09.200]for the effort they're worth the time
[00:50:11.580]we've gotten some hires
[00:50:14.040]out of those for some employers
[00:50:15.560]that was great and they provided us
[00:50:17.460]job postings that weren't
[00:50:20.000]on their website or on
[00:50:21.660]anywhere
[00:50:22.080]so
[00:50:27.280]all good information folks
[00:50:34.800]just kind of keep those ideas
[00:50:36.740]with you and as we come together in a couple
[00:50:38.940]weeks we can keep sharing those
[00:50:40.960]kinds of things
[00:50:41.820]anything else for the afternoon
[00:50:46.600]no I appreciate everybody being
[00:50:50.920]here I got to run but
[00:50:52.860]thanks Jenny for putting out the zoom
[00:50:54.920]stuff and everybody for participating
[00:50:57.140]thank you Judy for
[00:50:58.340]picking up more of your morning to
[00:51:00.540]talk about some of these things
[00:51:02.020]all right
[00:51:04.460]thank you everybody we'll see you in a couple weeks
[00:51:06.220]Thanks.
[00:51:07.220]Bye.
[00:51:08.220]Bye.
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