Josephine Co Town Hall Meeting

CREATING A VISION
FOR OUR FUTURE ECONOMY
IN JOSEPHINE COUNTY

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What is the vision for our future?, our businesses, our jobs, our life styles? What changes will we make? What about ‘Renewable Energy’? How will we be affected by the ‘World’s Economy’ ? The ‘Climate Crisis’, big government and taxes?

TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday, JUNE 24th
6:00 to 8:00pm
Anne Basker Auditorium
Grants Pass
Next to the Court House

This TOWN HALL MEETING will focuses on building a local sustainable economy.

Topics to be covered:
Tourism
Forest Restoration
Agriculture
Arts & Crafts
Small Business
Logging & Mining
Education

Sponsered by the:
Josephine County Board of Commissioners
Community Media & Education
and the 'First Steps Group'

Site Goals

This site will supply background information with links to support the Speaker's background, business, and relevant information.
To provide a Comprehensive overview of the economic history of Josephine County.
Create an email list server, Blog site and other tools to exchange information, ideas, and inspiration.

If you are a resident of Josephine Co. and would like to support more Forums & Workshops on the Economy contact us.

Thanks for visiting. Check back again with us on progress updates and review material in relation to "Creating a Vision For our Future Economy.

Guenter Ambron- Facilitator
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for information email:

jocoeco@frontier.com

First Hour 6:00pm
6:00	OPEN MEETING & INTRODUCTIONS
6:05	Slide Show presentation By: Guy Tauer - Region 8 Economist Oregon Employment Department Economic Research Division Josephine County Economic and Workforce Trends Download the report in PDF
6:15	Speakers: The order of speakers are not set
	Kit Doyle - Agriculture Project Manager, So. Oregon Seed Oil Inc. Kit will Speak on the agricultural developments of Canola, Camelina and other rotational crops on farm lands in JoCo. Kit, (a general contractor) also owns 'Doyle Homes'. and some of his workers are helping him with the seed oil production. His vision is to utilize the retired Co-op Grange grainery building in Grants Pass for processing local feed. See also Northwest Seed Crusher Inc. for information on the $85,000 Grant from the County on ag businesses.
	Orville Camp - Eco-System Restoration Founder of the Natural Selection Alternative (NSA) and the Deer Creek Association Orville will present a synopsis of a unique approach to harvesting forest products and lumber while restoring and maintaining all the essential qualities found in a bio diverse wilderness. His model of land stewardship, now 40 years old, is a self evident proven method of sustainability. It also addresses a plan for unprecedented savings in fire management costs. On July 23 Orville will be leading a Town Hall on NSA at Anne Basker.
	Roger Brandt - Tourism 199 traveler Roger Brandt of Cave Junction is the recipient of the 2009 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award For multi-faceted efforts to educate, promote and raise public awareness about history and heritage in southwest Oregon. Roger will talk about the expanding opportunities of Tourism, our unique bio diverse area and the secondary businesses that flourish around tourism and senic byways.
	Waves - Industry Writer & Local Artist A presentation on INDUSTRIAL HEMP. Hemp (not medicinal marijuana) is one of the highest yielding comercial product plant known to man. It can be made into a wide range of products. 100 years ago, before petroleum took over, hemp seed oil was the standard fuel oil, machine lubricant and paint base in the U.S. Hemp will produce 300 gallons per acre. Anything that can be made from petroleum, including plastics, can also be made from hemp seed oil, with fewer toxic byproducts... to read more select I.V. News article on INDUSTRAL HEMP for more details Waves recently gave his presentation to the Josephine Co. Sheriff's Dept. budget committee and it was well received.
	Jill Talise - Local Artist - Arts & Crafts Coyote Rising Giant Puppets & Amaroq Ceremonial Rattles Jill will give a summary of the Jerry Work Presentation "Lessons from Appalachia" In April of 2009 Jerry Work traveled to the Appalachian region (in N. Carolina) to learn how they have so successfully leveraged their regionally produced art and crafts into a major industry with revenues of over $200 million a year. Nearly all of what they have done was accomplished in one decade. By learning from their very successful experience we in Southern Oregon have a real opportunity to learn from this experience... Jerry's presentation outlines a course of action. Go to Jerry's Site and select Presentations for more information and his slild show on developing regional products.
	Marko Bey - Ecological Restoration/BioMass Director Lomakatsi Restoration Project Marko will talk about the Hope Mt. Project, Bio Mass and the prospects for the future. Leaders of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Siskiyou Project and Lomakatsi Restoration Project jointly announced an agreement is in place for the Hope Mountain Stewardship Project, which puts 1.4 million dollars in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to on the ground Forest restoration work and quickly creates jobs for local people.
7:00	BREAK
7:05	AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Q&A
	Explain participation rules
	A list will go around for participants that wish to be acknowledged as resources for participants and to assist Panelists. They may also wish to share their experience and resource material in the time allotted. We will entertain questions directed to panelists or other members present with background on topics. There will be a designated amount of time allotted to participants for questions, comments, and answers. It may range from 1 to 2 minutes or more depending on the size of the audience. Each participant will be recognized by the Moderator by raseing by hands before participating, or coming to the microphone at the podium.
7:55	Closing Remarks by Moderator
7:58	Closing Remarks by Facilitator
8:00	Close