PURPOSE: To analyze existing business activity in the Town, develop a business recruitment plan with incentives and to make recommendations on zoning law changes that support targeted businesses in the Town of Rochester. The committee plans will be in a manner consistent with the Town’s rural character, preservation of natural resources, and the quality of residential life.
ACCOUNTABILITY: The committee members will be appointed by and are accountable to the Town Board and shall solicit and receive public input.
TERM: The sub-committee shall exist until dissolved by the Town Board. The Town Board can add new members at any time.
SCOPE OF WORK:
1. Take an inventory of:
a. Existing businesses
b. Existing experience and talent within the Town to support new businesses
c. Services the town lacks that would identify and support new businesses
d. Targeted businesses to relocate or expand to the Town to satisfy town needs
e. Existing town zoning codes and conditions that impede economic development
2. Evaluate and make recommendations on how the Town Government might assist in the recruitment of new local businesses and engines of economic activity
3. Analyze and make recommendations on infrastructure improvements that the Town Government might assist with in order to attract targeted businesses
4. Review the Town’s current zoning and subdivision codes to identify areas in need of amendment along with recommendations on the priority of such amendments.
5. Research sources of outside funding to support report recommendations and draft funding request as added incentives to targeted businesses
6. Prepare written recommendations to the Town Board based on committee deliberations, resident input, and responses from businesses
Members: Paul Champanier (Chair)
Joan Atwood; Robert Barringer, Mark Bellehumeur, Tom Edwards, Francis Gray, & Toni Sindone
TOWN OF ROCHESTER BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE VOLUNTEER REQUEST
January 2007
The Town of Rochester Business Development Committee (BDC) needs volunteers. We have a variety of sub-committees that have openings. Open positions will require the following: Analysis skills, marketing and sales experience, good verbal and writing skills, grant writing experience, a comfort level with project plans and Microsoft Project. We believe our mandate is to bring jobs to our community without sacrificing our small town life and rural character. We believe we need to support existing business in our community and look to them as our first source of growth and jobs.
If you are a citizen who cares about preserving the rural character of our community while encouraging managed growth, if you understand the need to support existing businesses and bring in new businesses while managing growth in our community, and/or if you are a current or retired business owner or senior staff person who can be available for evening or weekend meetings and have Internet and Email access, we invite you to apply for membership on the BDC. Please submit letters of intent and a brief resume showing your skills and experience to the Town Board. These letters will be forward to our committee for review. After review, the BDC will make final recommendations to the Town Board for seating on the committee. We seek diversity in types of businesses represented and in the variety of expertise that can be brought to the
BDC.
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