Ben makes a strong case for why we don't need LCIC.
Amidst this backdrop of mismanagement, our unemployment numbers continued to climb, working families continued to lose their homes and young people continued leaving our community in search of jobs and a brighter future. So several weeks ago, I proposed to stop spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on LCIC, streamline the bureaucracy and model our economic development process after communities that are creating jobs, like Indianapolis and Columbus.
Communities that are winning in the Midwest don't use an LCIC model. Indianapolis, Columbus, Grand Rapids, Allentown and Akron are all ranked ahead of Toledo in economic development, and none of them have anything approaching an LCIC-like organization. We don't need to reinvent the wheel in Toledo
f you, the public, agree that we need change in this community and an urgent new direction in economic development, please e-mail Ms. Skeldon Wozniak at twozniak@co.lucas.oh.us or call her at (419) 213-4814 and ask her to support the resolution to end LCIC. Without LCIC, we'll still have countywide economic development. But it will be less bureaucratic, cost less to taxpayers, be more focused and more accountable.
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