Exisiting industries

in Fayette County now have a plan to help expand their business and keep

them thriving.

The Existing

Industry Program was developed by The Fayette County Development Authority,

in conjunction with the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce.

The plan gives

business owners a blue print for keeping their business going in the highly

competitive economy.

As part of

the paln, monthly meetings are scheduled to give business leaders information

on different issues.

The next meeting

is set for March 1 and the topic is foreign trade zones.

Other topics

include workforce development, water resources and transportation.

The Fayette

County Development Authority has also developed a comprehensive resource

guide for existing industry and business in Fayette County.

The guide is

available via the FCDA website at www.FayetteGa.org and is linked

from the Chamber of Commerce website. This guide covers issues ranging

from statewide incentives for expansion, public utility assistance programs,

educational resources, local advantages, and other pertinent issues.

Other initiatives

in the program include invitation only lunches throughout the year. These

lunches will target, at different times, human resource directors, plant

managers, financial officers and others to provide an informal forum to

share concerns, issues, ideas and successes.

In an effort

to improve communications and information sharing,, the program will develop

a comprehensive database of local industry management.

The program

will also support the development of a small team of local officials led

experiencing closure and layoff threatening developments.

This team would

be able to sit down with company leadership and address issues in a timely,

confidential and professional manner in hopes of retaining said business.

Another initiative

of the program is to continue to be a champion and grassroots lobbying

force for the creation of a local Corporate Training Center that would

be administered by Griffin Technical College with cooperative agreements

with Clayton State University to offer the most technologically advanced

training available.

Other elements

of the program include:

·Displaying

locally manufactured goods at prominent locations to build citizen identity

and market brand promotion

·Developing

a "thank-you" program recognizing local industry in their corporate

headquarter home town

·Identifying

suppliers that service local industry, but would increase productivity

and profitability if they were located in our community

·Identifying

"red-tape" problems that effect existing industry and might

hinder recruitment of new industry and work with local government to address

·Developing

ways to increase communications with local industry and business

At the end

of the year, officials will evaluate the success of the program by examining

how many jobs were created and saved and how much capital investment was

placed in the community.

Residents or

business leaders more interested in the program should contact the Fayette

County Chamber of Commerce at 770-461-5253.

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