Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Page A-3
Commissioners
Corner
2011 - 2016 Josephine County
Economic Development Strate-
gic Plan
by Sandi Cassanelli
Austin Sitton and Austin Parker of Ms. Ryan’s first grade class show off their creative costumes during the Ever-
green Elementary awards assembly for good behavior. Each month, the school recognizes students making good
behavioral decisions in monthly Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (PBIS) assemblies. These two were just
some of many students recognized Friday, April 22.
say that they couldn’t
down
load
YouTube
videos some nights. My
thought was read a book
but that’s me, I’m a reader.
As I have mentioned in
the past, I don’t subscribe
to any television service
providers or have internet
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access at home.
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Ziller went on to
suggest that maybe we
could get some attention
if we stopped paying our
Monday night’s joint city and county
phone
bills.
In
theory, that’s a great idea.
meeting was interesting to say the least.
In
reality,
all
that
would probably do is
Neither the city nor the county really had
leave
us
without
home
phone lines. But
anything new to tell us.
There was a presentation by Bob along that line of thinking, maybe you
Ziller about his trials with Frontier all should disconnect your home internet
Communications. It seems that many connection. It probably wouldn’t take too
Valley residents are having trouble with long for Frontier to upgrade our lines or
equipment here in the Valley. Ziller has a
internet connections.
We use the internet every day here good point there. Many of us already have
at the paper and I rarely see any problems smart phones and can get email and other
that prevent us from putting out the paper important information from the web that
each week. Sure, there have been plenty way until we get their attention.
The other thing I found interesting
of hassles, but at 9:30 p.m. on Monday
about
Monday night’s meeting was some
night, which I’m told is a peak time, I
people
in the crowd talking about private
tested our download speed at the sight
land
rights
and big government. I wonder
suggested by Mr. Ziller and things were
fine. I listened to people at the meeting where their love of land rights and small
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government was when Perpetua was
preparing to spray on its own private land.
Just curious.
Commissioner Sandra Cassanelli
said that new mass gathering rules were
brought about by the county’s legal
department. She said that someone had
talked to legal and said something needed
to be done. Like all members of the media,
Darcy Wallace and I sit in the back of the
room and observe. If we need to ask a
question, we do it after the meeting or on
the phone. I was, however, about to jump
out of my chair and ask WHO spoke to
legal and WHY did they think a change
was needed? That is the real question as
to the origins of this new disastrous rule
change.
Politicians have supporters and
like it or not, politicians tend to look
out for those peoples’ agendas under
the guise of looking out for us. County
officials need to tell us who and why this
is now an important issue. Double digit
unemployment, school systems that can’t
fund programs and bad roads should be
what the commissioners spend time on,
not more big government.
Thank you for picking up this week’s
paper, Enjoy.
— djm
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At the last A.O.C. annual
conference, an economic
development
workshop
was available for sitting
commissioners. The presenters
diligently went through a list
of items they said would be
needed for a county to prosper.
Some of the requirements
were an interstate running
through the county, adequate
affordable housing, enterprise
zones, ecommerce overlays,
etc.
At the end of the session,
I commented that Josephine
County
had
all
those
parameters discussed that
day, but the great, big sucking
sound in our county was small
businesses leaving the area. I
said those requirements might
work for larger, urban counties
who wooed big business to
their locale, but for small rural
communities, it simply didn’t
work.
A gentleman came up to
me after the meeting and said
the best book he ever read on
rural economic development
was “Ripples from the
Zambezi” by Ernesto Sirolli.
Sure enough, he was right. The
author confirmed what I knew
intuitively, that economic
development happens from the
bottom up, not the top down.
Sirolli stated that rather than
pouring massive amounts of
money into huge infrastructure
in the hopes of attracting
businesses, it was much more
productive to assist people
who had a passion, or a dream,
for doing what they loved. I
couldn’t agree more.
Josephine County has
spent hundreds of thousands
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little or no return on our
investments. Paradise Ranch
is the classic, prime example.
It would be much more
productive to keep our
economic development money
local. The county could start
by giving full or half price
breaks on planning, building
or home occupation permits,
which would aid our citizens
directly. The result would be
an infinitely more productive
and equitable distribution of
our resources.
This year due to a lack of
funds, the Chief Financial
Officer recommended that the
county not allow applications
for economic development
projects from our citizenry.
To turn around and give
SOREDI over 73 thousand
dollars would be an egregious
affront to those citizens.
We don’t need SOREDI
glomming onto local projects in
an attempt to justify SOREDI’s
existence, or to take credit for
that which rightly belongs to
others.
And Josephine County
certainly cannot afford the
luxury of promoting SOREDI’s
corporate cronies, allowing
them to dictate the kind of
government or which projects
are worthy of our support, as
they did in the last proposal.
I will not vote for any
further involvement with
SOREDI or for the recently
drafted five year Economic
Development Strategic Plan,
but I will continue to promote
local entrepreneurs and assist
our citizens with every fiber of
my being.
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