Momentum West

Fam tour: the fam tour is a three-day event where we bring site selectors to the region and tour shovel ready sites and meet with industry/education leaders. The event is held to make site selectors aware of our region in hopes of landing a development project. Due to covid in 2020 we shifted from an in person visit to developing a series of videos showing the assets of region including sites, infrastructure, higher education and the talent pipeline, communities, quality of life, etc. These videos are being wrapped up now and links will be sent to site selectors/developers as well as promoted by partners and Momentum West for talent attraction efforts.

Other economic development activities including various marketing activities, conferences, conventions, meetings, and information technology expenses.

Inspire launch:the purpose of the inspire launch was to further promote inspire connections, a career and academic planning software toll used in our regions high schools and middle schools along with xello, the software the state provides the schools for academic and career planning (acp). It connects students with business and industry to inform them of career options and learning experiences offered while still in school. It is active in most of the districts in the region and has over 200 businesses participating.