BUSINESS TO STEER COALITION; GOAL IS 3,000 NEW JOBS.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
Members of a new coalition to oversee economic development efforts in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley say the effort should be led by business leaders rather than government officials. The coalition's organizational retreat Thursday Thursday: see week. at the Antelope Valley Country Club attracted 50 people representing a wide cross-section of the Antelope Valley, including city governments, school districts, aerospace industries and other businesses. ``The coalition will be private sector led with public sector partnership,'' said Vern Lawson Jr., executive director of the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Lancaster Economic Development Corp. and one of the organizers of the new coalition. ``The majority of the membership is from the private sector.'' The creation of a guiding coalition to oversee economic development was one of the recommendations by consultants commissioned to develop a game plan for attracting jobs to the region - the latest in a years-long series of efforts to provide employment in a region long dependent on aerospace. The consultants, The Suddes Group, an economic development fund-raising fund-raising, large-scale soliciting of voluntary contributions, especially in the United States. Fund-raising is widely undertaken by charitable organizations, educational institutions, and political groups to acquire sufficient funds to support their activities. organization, and Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
The $195,000 study was funded by federal and state grants aimed at helping communities hurt by defense industry cutbacks. In the works since November, building the coalition will be a slow process, organizers said. It is as yet nameless, though one of the suggestions is Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance. Among the issues the coalition is beginning to tackle is how big should its governing board Noun 1. governing board - a board that manages the affairs of an institution board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members" be, whether a minimum monetary investment should be required for board membership, and how relationships with other economic organizations should be conducted. ``We're going to be an alliance,'' Lawson said. ``We want to work cooperatively with other groups. We're not going to take over anybody.'' Ron Carter, president of Antelope Valley Broadcasting, is one of the coalition members and is also a board member of the Antelope Valley Regional Partnership, an organization created about three years ago to help coordinate economic efforts. Carter said he sees the regional partnership continuing, but that the new alliance will have a greater sweep. ``The partnership represents part of the Antelope Valley - Palmdale, Lancaster, the county and the college. The Antelope Valley is much bigger than that,'' Carter said. The new coalition includes Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County, incorporating representatives of the cities of Tehachapi and Ridgecrest. The community of Mojave and Kern County's Economic Development Corp. are also among the coalition's members. |
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