Even though Russell was restructuring, sales taxes still increased little by little. |
I don't think any decisions have been made. We'll try to be prepared if they do. |
I think the jobs we had with Russell were always taken for granted. The entire community thought it would never happen. We'd had a relationship with Russell for about 100 years. We always thought Russell would be our support beam. |
It shows there's an available workforce, and with a good school system and college with a technology center, it certainly speaks that we have a workforce and we have the facilities to train that workforce. |
It's a little disappointing, but that's the weather. You can't do anything about it. |
It's just hard. It's like they say, you've got 15,000 places looking to get industry and 1,500 industries looking to locate. |
So, it must be the lake. |
Something good is happening on the lake. |
The potential for growth is astronomical. |
We feel like we've had a great year. |
We hope we would get some suppliers out of it. |
We know what an asset we have, now we have to protect it. That's what watershed is all about. |
We'd rather for it to go there. |
We've gotten 11 companies with a total of close to 800 jobs (since 1998). That doesn't include expansions, either. We're making progress. We've got the parks, and I think we're as prepared as a small community like ours can be. |