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L <br />• Develop formal pian to address addiction problems within the minority community. <br />• Create a list of all available industrial/commercial properties. <br />• Recommend fiuther review of criminal record issues with law enforcement, the courts and <br />employers. <br />• Document and promote success stories. <br />• Organize 2nd Project KO.P.E. to reach target job seekers in the minority communities. <br />Possible tie-in to a "Gifford Business Day." � <br />• Identify ways to bring together target job seekers with employers. <br />• Designate beautification funds for the 45' Street corridor. <br />MID TERM (1 year) <br />• Black Minority Business Funds are now pooled with Palm Beach County. Recommend the <br />County Commission request a separate reporting of these monies to help local minority <br />businesses to gain access to these funds. <br />• Investigate recently developed Federal program for rural communities <br />• Install street lighting and sidewalks, and ensure the quality of public services is consistent <br />-oath other parts of the county. <br />• Adapt the current public transportation service to known job sites and related service <br />providers in the county and identify other transportation options to and from work. <br />• Create ways to communicate career opportunities to college graduates who have left <br />Indian River County; publicize area websites that provide information needed to the <br />community at large. <br />• Provide basic life skills training in the local community. <br />• Create a list of companies that offer on-the-job training. <br />• Create ways to encourage companies to locate in Gifford. <br />LONG TERM (18 months to 2 years) <br />• Research how to get a good representation of chronically unemployed and <br />underemployed, how many need training, what training is needed and available, and the <br />number and type of positions available for job seekers. <br />• Group the skills sets of the county's 20 most in -demand jobs identified by the Workforce <br />Development Board into "steps" that range from: 1) the most basic (life skills), to 2) <br />gradually more complex requirements (step two -aptitude; step three -basic math, etc.). <br />• Explore the future possibility of an enterprise zone in the Gifford.. _ <br />AUGUST 8, 2000 <br />{1I4PG510 <br />-56- <br />• 0 <br />