[Vote] Article from IN-FORUM

[Mary Tintes]

Interesting - years ago, when I was in for-profit business, a
representative from the GFMEDC approached my business ( and others)
asking for financial support to "create jobs to keep our young people
here".  I had 2 kids in college at NDSU at the time, and so I asked this
representative to explain the plan further and then I asked what sort of
input they were getting from young people, such as college students.
What are these young people looking for?  How are you addressing their
concerns?  Well, guess what.....they weren't talking to college
students/young people at all.  (So, they didn't get my company's
support, either.) Now, they are .....maybe.....

 

Mary C Tintes 
Community Organizer 
Freedom Resource Center for Independent Living 
"Equality and inclusion for people with disabilities" 
(701)478-0459 phone 
(701)478-0510 fax 
mctintes at freedomrc.org 

 

 

 

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Tax backers plan campaign

Craig McEwen

The Forum - 03/14/2008

A Cass County citizens group that supports a half-cent sales tax
increase to fund economic development will aggressively recruit North
Dakota State University students to help pass the measure, Fargo/Cass
Forward chairman Bernie Dardis said Thursday. 

Were going to concentrate on young people, Dardis told members of the
Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corp., the agency directing
the sales tax effort.

Cass County voters will decide on June 10 whether to approve the tax
increase that would raise $9.5 million annually through 2020 to bring
high-tech industries and jobs to Cass County.

Were going to have a very aggressive get-out-the-vote at the NDSU
campus  everything from rides, providing absentee ballots and those
types of things, he said. We will have an absentee ballot program
second to no political campaign thats ever been run in Cass County. 

Fargo/Cass Forward members have been meeting with local residents in
meet-and-greet sessions of up to 10 people to present the sales tax
initiative and answer questions, Dardis said. 

That effort is directed at adult residents whose children and
grandchildren may return to Cass County to work in jobs potentially
created as a result of the economic development initiative, he said.

The Fargo/Cass Forward campaign will use lots of faces, Dardis said.

Make no mistake, it will be orchestrated, it will be choreographed in
the sense of the message, he said. 

The group launched its Web site, www.fargocassforward.

com, on Wednesday.

I appreciate all the work that you and the members of your committee
are doing, said Lauris Molbert, EDC board chairman.

Questions have been raised about how the job creation initiative affects
those who dont work in tech-related industries, said EDC board member
and Cass County commissioner Scott Wagner.

Were trying to find emerging primary-sector industries as we see the
global economy shift, Wagner said. New job creation creates new
opportunities, and continued opportunities, in the construction
industry, financial services, retail and commercial sectors. It affects
everybody.

Readers can reach Forum Business Editor Craig McEwen at (701) 241-5502

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