The Citizen, 2012-11-22, Page 25Huron County Economic
Development Officer Mike Pullen
told Huron County Council at its
Nov. 14 Committee of the Whole
meeting that economic development
is changing and it has now become
an essential service.
Pullen said that for rural areas
such as Huron County, the only way
to compete is to have a dynamic
economic development department,
which he feels Huron County can
have: it just needs more resources.
“Competition is fierce, but we are
the masters of our own destiny,”
Pullen told councillors.
He said there has to be a great
level of co-operation between the
county and lower tiers, saying that
the “silo approach” will always lose
out to collaboration.
Pullen said that the Huron
Business Development Corporation
helped to give the county a
competitive advantage and that the
county made the right move when it
partnered with the corporation to
form the Huron Economic
Development Partnership in 2010.
Pullen said the county is lagging
behind in money being dedicated to
economic development when
compared to other neighbouring
counties. He said that when budget
deliberations come around, he’ll be
recommending at least a $100,000
boost to the budget, maybe more.
He said economic development
has changed since the 2008
recession and that senior
government funding isn’t coming to
community economic development
any longer. He said it’s coming in
the form of straight-to-business
funding.
Director of Planning Scott Tousaw
said he would be recommending a
one-and-a-half person jump in the
economic development department.
He said the department should be
adding another person, while
picking up the half of Community
Development Co-ordinator Douglas
Barill’s salary that was previously
being paid through RED (Rural
Economic Development) funding.
Tousaw said council didn’t need to
approve the change immediately,
just that they needed to approve the
document in principle, which
allowed him to continue preparing
for the shift and the official decision
could be made during budget
deliberations.
Council approved the
recommendation in principle.
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