By Debbie Raney
Burns Times-Herald
A resolution in Harney County Court that was approved in 2005, was finally implemented on May 6.
Resolution #2005-23 created an economic growth incentive fund, and was passed by the Harney County Court on Dec. 21, 2005. The resolution created a fund that could be used to award county residents for creating or adding jobs.
“This new business recruitment and job bounty program is just another tool in our economic development toolbox for Harney County,” said Mark Maliwauki, County Economic Development Director. “We want everyone to be thinking about how they might be able to participate in bringing new businesses and through them, new jobs and employment opportunities to the county.”
To receive the incentive award, a person must identify themselves early on in the process, preferably prior to jobs being created. If the minimum job requirements are met, the person named will be given an award at the end of the first full year of job creation. If 3-10 jobs are created or added, the award will be $1,000; 11-20 jobs, $3,000; and 21-plus jobs, $5,000.
All of the specifics of the resolution are available from Maliwauki at 573-1638, or e-mail at econdev@harneycounty.org; or from Judge Steve Grasty at 573-6356.
“The reality is, economic development starts with each one of us,” said Maliwauki. “It is the factor of one that is critical. It takes one person to get something started but that one will lead to many others joining in and before we know it, we have new opportunities that we never had before.”
May 27th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
My friends in school would always come back after summer vacation, flashing gold jewelry and big wads of cash. It was great enjoying the largess of my homeys, eating at McDs everyday for a couple months, until they bought fat tires and flashy rims, or blew it on trips to Las Vegas.
This was back in Minnesota before global warming, and winter lasted 9 months of the year. Summer lasted 3 months, a kid could make oodles of money sweeping parking lots. But, who is going to listen to me and, I’m sure we’re thinking career type jobs? I’ve never had a career so, guess my stint as a motivator will go unrewarded.
Well, why don’t we lease some factory space and manufacture some stuff. You know, the kind of stuff that everyone needs to have to fill their space, and have stuff to sell at garage sales. Then we can collect more stuff and provide for dumpster divers so they can have a yard sale too. Think about it, this is what we do.
If no one wants to step up to the plate and have a turn at milking cows, who is going doing it? Maybe you’d like to spend eight hours a day tending to a machine punching out blanks in a cardboard box factory? Well, you could get educated and return to Harney county with your degree, and work for the gummint publishing papers. Believe it or not, that works. Especially if one needs a job to keep their idle hands out of trouble.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I would be interested to know how many times this incentive has been paid out since 2005 and to whom.