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the workforce was earning, etc.* *Make sure your workforce training <br />mirrors your targeted industries** <br />Seminole - Major focus on schools. County and local colleges created a program <br />that allowed families with college students re -locating to Seminole to <br />immediately qualify for in-state tuition. Another major criteria was nature <br />trails, natural land areas, etc. <br />Retention: <br />Suwanee - Incentives are greater for existing companies expanding than for <br />companies re -locating. <br />Seminole - Get in touch with your businesses, regular calls to your companies to <br />see how they are doing, "What can we do for you?" <br />Palm Beach - Retention is much larger proportion of budget than recruiting, <br />regular visits to existing companies, how's it going, what do you need, etc. <br />Show appreciation to employers doing business in your county. <br />Appreciation Tour — County Commissioners board a tour bus and make a <br />thank you trip through business/industrial centers. <br />FLORIDA CONSTITUTION REVISION COMMISSION; <br />See attached back up for details on the Constitutional Revision Commission (CRC) <br />process. FAC is creating a CRC Steering Committee. If any Commissioner <br />wishes to serve on the FAC CRC steering committee, please contact FAC <br />President Commissioner Barbara Sharief (Broward County). <br />HYDRAULIC FRACTURING (FRACKING): <br />The Growth, Agriculture and Environment Committee approved 3 new policy <br />statements in regards to Hydraulic Fracturing after a very informative pro/con <br />presentation. The following statements were adopted. <br />OPPOSE a state preemption of fracking activities — especially the siting of wells <br />within sensitive areas — and ancillary activities such as waste storage, handling and <br />disposal, truck traffic and other local public health and safety impacts: <br />258 <br />