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| Project: |
CARBON COUNTY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING |
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| Location: |
Carbon County, Wyoming |
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Client: |
Carbon County Economic Development Corporation
P.O. Box 487
Rawlins, Wyoming 82301 |
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| Contact: |
Bill Saulcy, President, Board of Directors |
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| Year Completed: |
1998 |
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| Project Scope:
Carbon County Economic Development
Corporation (CCEDC) is a quasi-public corporation that
encourages the retention and expansion of existing industries
and businesses in Carbon County. The Corporation also provides
technical assistance to investors and businesses within and
outside of the County to help promote new economic investment
into the regional economy.
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| Pedersen Planning Consultants (PPC)
provided part-time staff support and technical planning
assistance to CCEDC from June, 1996, through March, 1998. PPC
provided bookkeeping and clerical support, as well as economic
research associated with CCEDC projects. CCEDC also
administered a revolving loan fund for the Town of Encampment,
one of Carbon County’s ten municipalities. |
Medicine Bow National Forest, Carbon County, Wyoming
Just north of the Colorado border |
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| Economic planning research
investigated the costs and benefits associated with the proposed
relocation of a State maximum-security prison facility. PPC
also participated in a related legislative lobbying effort at
State Capital in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Other economic planning involved
the preparation of a business plan for a proposed expansion of a
post and pole operation. The company used the business plan to
seek additional capital for a new facility that would generate
increased economic value to its existing post and pole products.
Pedersen Planning Consultants
organized and coordinated a business retention and expansion
program for CCEDC. Representatives of primary industries were
initially contacted to identify issues and potential barriers to
planned industry expansion. A business retention and expansion
survey was also prepared and provided to Board members of CCEDC.
Volunteer board members were trained and organized to make
individual interviews of roughly 50 businesses and industry.
A calling
program on municipal mayors and town councils in the County was
also initiated to facilitate coordination of CCEDC’s regional
economic development activities with local government.
Municipal leaders were queried concerning the potential location
of industrial sites and general community attitudes regarding
future economic development. |
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