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WORKING GROUP DISCUSSION REPORT COMMUNITY PARTNERS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BUSINESS BASE November 20, 1995 The Working Group has met five times over the past quarter to review the data generated by the Community Partners business survey. At each meeting two of the 10 chapters were summarized and various observations made. The following incorporates both into one document and distills the key points and findings of the survey. This document begins the process of evaluating the types of actions that might be best pursued in response to the data generated. Chapter One: Where Are We Today? Chapter-one-provides various informational pictures of the region, quantifying the make-up of the local economy's distribution of firms by type, ownership characteristics, sales volume and outlook, facility size and ownership,job categories, full and part-time jobs, and anticipated length of stay. Each of these are informative but some are, of course, more relevant than others. The Working Group was asked to rank these as to their information value and whether more or less information was required in future surveys. Work Group Question& Comments Raw Score Topic More or Less 15 Jobs &Employment * More 13 Break out by Sector * 13 Projected Time of Stay * 13 Business Outlook * 11 Facility Ownership * 10 Headquarters location 9 Sales Volume * 9 Facility Sizes 9 Minority and Female ownership Less 8 Legal Entity Less • • All members of the Working Group ranked the Jobs and Employment topic as high, and the one area where even more information should be generated. • Items with an * indicate that at least one member of the Working Group felt the data to be of high value. • Minority and female ownership, and legal entity of companies was seen as the least relevant of the data generated. 1