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• 6 RECOMMENDATIONS SHORT TERM ( b months) • Develop a structure to pursue future grants that would target the county's chronically unemployed and underemployed. • County officials should identify and talk to absentee owners of abandoned, distressed properties; burn down remainder of crack houses and police known drug sales areas. • Enforce all County codes, ordinances and laws consistently with other parts of the county. • Identify the agencies and organizations that can provide the help being suggested in this report. • Create better communications avenues for people to register for needed training classes. • Develop formal plan to address addiction problems within the minority community. • Create a list of all available industrial/commercial properties. • Recommend further review of criminal record issues with law enforcement, the courts and employers. • Document and promote success stories. • Organize 2" Project H.O.P.E. to reach target job seekers in the minority communities. Possible tie-in to a"Gifford Business Day." Identify ways to bring together target job seekers with employers. • Designate beautification funds for the 45� Street corridor. MID TERM (I year) • Black Minority Business Funds are now pooled with Palm Beach County. Recommend the County Commission request a separate reporting of these monies to help local minority businesses to gain access to these funds. • Investigate recently developed Federal program for rural communities • install street lighting and sidewalks, and ensure the quality of public services is consistent with other parts of the county. • Adapt the current public transportation service to known job sites and related service providers in the county and identify other transportation options to and from work. • Create ways to communicate career opportunities to college graduates who have left Indian River County; publicize area websites that provide information needed to the 79