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For Release:
May 27, 2008
For more information contact:
Tom Lacock
Senior Marketing and Public Relations Specialist
Wyoming Business Council
Office: 307.777.2834
Business Council board readies for Saratoga meeting
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Business Council Board of Directors will meet at the Platte Valley Community Center in Saratoga at 9 a.m., Thursday, June 5.
Highlighting the meeting will be recommendations on Community Facilities Grants; Business Ready Community Grants and Community Development Block Grants. In addition, the board will review Challenge Loan applications and hear updates on the work of the State Energy Office and review contracts from its University of Wyoming partners.
WYOMING BUSINESS COUNCIL
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
June 5, 2008
Saratoga, WY
TENTATIVE AGENDA
9 a.m. -
Public Meeting Convenes
Welcome & Introductions – Co-Chair Jim Davis
Minutes Approval
April 30, 2008 & March 26, 2008
9:30 a.m. - Committee Reports
Community Development – Donna Kinskey, Chair
Community Facilities Program Application
Business Ready Community Applications Community Development Block Grant
Investment Ready Communities Update – Shawn Reese
Regionals Report – Lead Director, Steve Elledge
Southeast Region – Tom Johnson
Rural Development/Main St. Update – Mary Randolph
10:30 a.m. - Business Development – Cliff Root, Chair
Loan Portfolio Mike Martin, Program Manager
Crowheart Store
Countryside Disposal
WY Industrial Development Corp.
Audit Report
Business & Industry Update – Ben Avery, Director
State Energy Office Update – Tom Fuller, Manager
Contracts
University of Wyoming, Manufacturing Works
University of Wyoming, Market Research Center
University of Wyoming, Research Product Center
Land Investment, LLC
Salesforce.com
United States European Enterprises
Travel & Tourism Board Approved – Over $100,000
11:30 a.m. - BREAK
11:45 a.m. - Travel & Tourism Division Update - Diane Shober, Director
12:15 p.m. - Lunch
12:45 p.m. = Agribusiness Program Update – Cindy Weibel, Director
1:00 p.m. - Planning, Budget & Audit Committee – Gus Fleischli, Chair
Financials
Personnel
1:30 p.m. - Public Comment
2:00 p.m. - CEO Update/Other Business/Next Meeting – Adjournment
Sept. 17 & 18 - Rock Springs
The mission of the Wyoming Business Council is to facilitate the economic growth of Wyoming. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.wyomingbusiness.org.
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