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required in the first three cornerstones; Organization, Product and Business <br /> Retention & Expansion. More mature programs are able to shift,resources Deleted:their <br /> toward the latter cornerstones; Workforce Development and Marketing. At • <br /> its current level of funding the City of Arden Hills can only address three <br /> cornerstones well. Based upon the needs discovered during our strategy <br /> sessions we would recommend those to be the Product, Organization and <br /> Deleted BRE Cornerstones <br /> ,BusinessRetention /Expansion. - ---- --- ---- ----- <br /> It is our recommendation that fundingand staffing Deleted the <br /> g,be_secured over_the next <br /> Deleted:of DeSCo <br /> five years.,for full implementation of this plan. Assuming this to be an Deleted:is <br /> achievable objective, we have written a five year economic development <br /> ........ <br /> strategy that addresses all five of the cornerstones. However, program Deleted:r <br /> is heavily weighted toward the first three; organization, product and business <br /> Deleted: however. It is the <br /> retention and expansion consultant's recommendation <br /> that these are the best <br /> investments of the City's <br /> economic development funds at <br /> this time. <br /> Omanizational Development Deleted:Project phasing into <br /> three sections; Early,Middle, <br /> ,The first component essential to a successful economic developmentprogramLate. In a five year strategy <br /> p p such as this early <br /> implementation is recommended <br /> is to ensure that the organizational capabilities are in place for ED to for less than two years from plan <br /> adoption;mid term is for year's <br /> succeed. In order to accomplish that success, we recommend that Arden two to four and late term is <br /> Hills address the following organizational issues: years four through five. ¶ <br /> Deleted:Economic developm <br /> 1) Community and Economic Development Director. cannot occur withoutthe taf <br /> and organizational support <br /> necessary to make it happen. It <br /> For economic development to succeed there needs to be someone in ! is,without question,the point <br /> the communitywith these res onsibilities. Current) there is no one where all ED must start. Arden <br /> - p y� Hills is not exempt from their <br /> on City staff with the title of economic development director. Full need to address this area either. <br /> time economic development staff is not warranted at this time. ¶ __ ......... <br /> However, a minimum of part time attention to economic development Deleted: title for such <br /> is warranted- Our first recommendation is that the awareness of this Deleted:. In order to begin the <br /> priority be recognized through title chan9e- We would recommend process of addressing this critical <br /> issue an economic development <br /> that the title and job d.escrlption,_.of the Community Development director needs to be put in place <br /> .....:::::: <br /> Director be changed to Economic and Community Development Deleted: for consideration <br /> Director as soon as possible. Deletes:s <br /> 2) Support Staff for Economic Development <br /> The new,Community andE.c_.o.nomic.._Development Director cannot Deleted:Economic and <br /> assume the additional responsibilities of their job without sufficient <br /> capacity,to manage that task. If the City adopts the Deleted staff <br /> Strategic Plan for Economic Development Page 6 of 21 <br /> • <br />