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BR & E <br /> WHAT.IS THE BR&E VISITATION WHAT ARE THE BR&E VISITATION <br /> .PROGRAM? PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND <br /> PROCESS? <br /> Business Retention and Expansion(often simply called <br /> BR&E)includes all efforts to encourage the survival and Most local BR&E Visitation programs have the following <br /> growth of a community's existing businesses. objectives and visitation process: <br /> Examples of the hundreds of possibilities include: Qb1@CtIV@S <br /> • Providing technical training for new employees. <br /> • Providing management seminars for employers. Demonstrate to local businesses that the <br /> • Helping firms identify local sources of input community appreciates their contribution to the <br /> supplies and materials. local economy. <br /> • Encouraging better labor/management relations. Help existing businesses solve problems. <br /> • Reducing the cost and upgrading the quality of Assist businesses in using programs aimed at <br /> local government services. helping them become more competitive. <br /> • Establishing better school-workplace relations and Develop strategic plans for long-range business <br /> fit. retention and expansion activities. <br /> • Retaining youth in the community. Build community capacity to sustain growth and <br /> development. <br /> All of these examples help firms to become more productive <br /> and thus more competitive. These ideas don't try to hold the <br /> clock in place or to roll it back. Instead they help your local <br /> firms stay ahead of their competitors in other communities. <br /> A BR&E Visitation program is a planning process for <br /> setting priorities for community sponsored Business <br /> Retention and Expansion programs that best fit the needs of <br /> local firms. A BR&E Visitation program recognizes that <br /> few communities can do everything that they would like to <br /> do to help their existing firms. Your community probably <br /> does not have the funds nor the leadership time to do it all. <br /> So—you have to decide what types of projects could do the <br /> most for your local firms. Your priority projects depend on <br /> the types of firms in your community,the competitive <br /> pressures they are facing,the nature of your local public <br /> services,the qualities of your labor force,and many other <br /> factors. <br /> Is It for Our Community? -- 7 <br />