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affecting in particular the area's high growth and base building companies. • Unfortunately, the linkages between public and private educational resources, employee demand, and prospective employees are at best happenstance. The need for employees is nonetheless critical for the log term health of the area's economy. There is a need to focus resources on those firms and industries which offer the greatest long term potential for economic growth in the area. Special attention should be focused on the needs of these businesses and local resources from secondary and post secondary public and private institutions should be harnessed to provide the type of training needed. A special effort needs to be made to identify the types of training needed, and identification of the potential employees in and out of school to fill these potential career opportunities. Strategy/Action Plan • Select 2 - 3 target populations of businesses with high growth and base building characteristics. • Review existing data base as to specific training needs of targeted business sectors and coordinate said training needs with local educational institutions, both public and private. • Meet with proprietary schools as well as community and technical colleges to help focus their resources as it could affect each targeted group and determine what the schools need to do to service the needs of the targeted businesses. • Conduct focus groups with each targeted business group to quantify demand, specific issues, as well as develop strategies to recruit employees into appropriate training for identified job opportunities. • Meet with secondary institutions, employment and training officials, welfare offices, etc. to promote interest in training and job opportunities C. Continue "Red Flag" Reporting System On New Businesses And All Resurveys CRP will continue to alert appropraite city satff of all "red flags" generateds from surveys of new businesses and/or resurvey inquiries.