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Reasons to Shop MoVal By Michele Patterson

Assistant to the City Manager Save time, money & the environment! Support local businesses and attract new favorites! Create & protect jobs, build business & improve our quality of life! Did you know that not all shopping areas east of the I-215 are in Moreno Valley? The

shopping centers on the west side of Day Street north of Eucalyptus Avenue are actually in Riverside! When you spend hard-earned dollars outside Moreno Valley, other communities benefit. Keep your dollars working in and for Moreno Valley.

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Amazon Fulfillment Services’ newest facility is under construction at Heacock Street and San Michele Road. The 1.25 million square foot building is one of four new Amazon facilities that will share the tax credit award of $1.575 million

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“We Mean Business”! What does that mean? For those involved with The Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce, they know. Watching out for business interest and helping businesses connect, create partnerships and get involved in the community. One way we help businesses is with our newly formatted [See AIM, Page 3] Governmental Affairs Committee (G.A.C.) which premiered its platform and agenda on May 16, 2014. Assemblyman Jose Medina was in attendance and gave an overview of several pending legislative bills affecting businesses in the Moreno Valley

City Congratulates Moreno Valley’s California Competes Tax Credit Recipients Last Thursday, the California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC) Committee, created by the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-BIZ), approved $28.9 million in tax credits for 29 companies that are expanding and creating jobs in California. The CCTC Committee has recognized the magnitude of need for quality jobs in Riverside County and issued tax credit awards to two new Moreno Valley facilities (click here – INSERT LINK: http://hosted.verticalresponse. com/1690473/0094e10e 8e/591805607/3684899144/ to link to the CCTC press release

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bills or other items are reviewed first to see if they adhere to the Governmental Affairs platform approved by the Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors on April 25, 2014. The meetings are open to all Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce members only and they are encouraged to attend. If you are not a member, please call the chamber office to arrange a membership application at (951) 697-4404. The bottom line is the Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce is there for you, “We Mean Business”!

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and the complete list of approved companies and award amounts). The City of Moreno Valley is pleased to congratulate Amazon Fulfillment Services and Deckers Outdoor Corporation for their successful tax credit applications! • Amazon Fulfillment Services’ newest facility is under construction at Heacock Street and San Michele Road. The 1.25 million square foot building is one of four new Amazon facilities that will share the tax credit award of $1.575 million for their creation of 1,550 jobs in Moreno Valley, Tracy, Newark, and San Bernardino.

and Riverside County area. The meetings are well attended with legislative representatives from Senator Richard Roth’s office, Assemblyman Jose Medina’s office and Supervisor Marion Ashley’s office. With the development of this new format the Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce can increase its advocacy and efforts to support business interest and/ or regional issues that can impact us directly or indirectly. Local, state and regional issues will be reviewed and discussed monthly at the Governmental Affairs Committee meetings. Measures,

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Building Our Town By Thomas hines

Last month I told you what I wanted to do to get new business recruited to our city. Now here is how we are going to do it together. Our Town is printing the good news about our city, our kid’s sponsoring and promoting the events. What I need from you is to sign up for our Writers Flash Mob or maybe we will call it the MoVal Business Recruiters? Go to our website www.ourtownmoval. com and go to the link to sign up for one of our committees. Once a week we will send you a company’s email or a street address. If you agree to recruit that company, we ask

you to write one or two paragraphs to that company expressing your interest in their business, and how you would patronize their store or business, if they would build here in Moreno Valley. I believe with 300 letters from a town of 193,000, we could get a Red Lobster restaurant with 33 jobs created by you or a Hyundai assembly plant with 1400 jobs. etc. etc. When you sign up, give me your ideas of what other businesses you would like to see in Our Town. Next, we need to work on the perception that MoVal people have of our selfs, and what the Inland Empire people have of Moreno Valley. For example, bringing in Shakespeare in the Park and many other interesting events. At our website go to the link to sign up for notification of time and place of performances. Also there will be a link to join the troop of players, stage crew, and costume designers. P.S. We are still looking for the ideal location for the Shakespeare Theater.

To join a list you must use a scan app on your smart phone and scan the QR code or visit our website at ourtownmoval.com

PERRIS BOULEVARD WIDENING FROM IRONWOOD AVENUE TO MANZANITA AVENUE The City of Moreno Valley’s Capital Projects Division is starting construction on the improvement of Perris Boulevard from Ironwood Avenue to Manzanita Avenue. Perris Boulevard is being widened to help relieve traffic congestion and to enhance vehicular, pedestrian, and bicyclist safety. Due to recent growth in Moreno Valley, the present 2-lane roadway has experienced capacity and operational deficiencies. You are invited to attend the City’s Project Information/Community Meeting, where you can learn more about this important street improvement project. Please come in anytime between 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on July 16, 2014 to review the plans. The project design team will be available to answer questions and discuss the project.

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Reasons to Shop MoVal • Strengthen new and existing businesses. Local shopping grows our neighbor businesses. A prosperous local economy ALWAYS starts with a healthy and growing business community. • Protect and create jobs. Local business prosperity creates local jobs, with a multiplier effect. People frequently shop where we work. Shop MoVal & create jobs. Those people Shop MoVal & create jobs, and so on… • If you spend it, they will come. Ever wonder when your favorite retailer or restaurant will come to town? New restaurants, retailers, and services locate in communities when they see healthy local spending trends. • Support Community Groups. Local business owners lead in contributions to local fundraising and non-profit community groups. • Save time. Traveling outside of Moreno Valley wastes your precious time. Shop MoVal and explore the variety of goods and services right in your own backyard. • Save energy. Shopping locally reduces our carbon footprint, let alone wear and tear on our vehicles. Gas is expensive! Need we say more? • Diversify the Economy. Competition and diversity result in lower prices and more choices.

[TAX, from Page 1] • Deckers Outdoor Corporation (maker of UGG boots and other high-end footwear) is under construction with an 800,000 square foot facility at Perris Boulevard and Grove View Road. Deckers Outdoor was awarded a total of $800,000 in tax credits for creating new employment opportunities in Goleta and Moreno Valley. “Creating jobs is priority at the City of Moreno Valley, and City leadership and staff are proud of what has been accomplished to date,” said City Manager Michelle Dawson. “Companies including Aldi, Amazon, Deckers Outdoor, Harbor Freight Tools, Harman Kardon, Procter & Gamble, and Skechers are creating thousands of jobs and we look forward to

continued growth in employment opportunities for Moreno Valley residents.” The City’s prime Southern California location is about an hour drive east of Los Angeles, west of Palm Springs, and north of San Diego, facilitating same day access to California, Nevada and Arizona consumers. However, because Moreno Valley has been largely residential, regional job losses had a dramatic effect on the City’s commuters. In response, City leadership focused on job creation and has facilitated the creation of more than 2,600 jobs since January 2013. “We thank the California Competes Tax Credit and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development for investing in employment

opportunities for Moreno Valley’s residents,” said Mayor Pro Tem Victoria Baca. “And many congratulations to Amazon and to Deckers!” Community & Economic Development Director John Terell offers assistance to other companies considering making a move to Moreno Valley. “Moreno Valley community and City leaders are enthusiastic and supportive. Our positive, friendly business climate cuts through red tape and moves at the speed of business.” For more information about business development opportunities in Moreno Valley, contact the Economic Development office at EDTeam@moval.org or by phone at 951.413.3460.

• What’s spent in MoVal, stays in MoVal. For every dollar of sales tax you pay in Moreno Valley, a portion stays right here to fund important local services like libraries, parks, public safety, senior services, street maintenance, youth programs, etc. • Community Pride! Moreno Valley residents work together & demonstrate community pride.

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GREEN AMERICA PLAN 2050 A Multi-Grid Infrastructure Jobs Initiative By Les Hamasaki

Les Hamasaki is the CEO of the International Green Technology Institute, Inc., a sustainable planning and development consultancy. He was a former Los Angeles City Planning and Airport Commissioner.

Building a Smart Multi-Grid Water, Green Power, Communications & Transportation Network

he United States, with a population of more than 330 million people today, must accommodate an additional 128 million citizens by 2050, less than four decades from now. It must create affordable and environmentally sustainable communities for the current 65 million as well as 10,000 baby boomers retiring at 65 every day over the next 19 years. Hence, the Green America Plan 2050 (GAP2050)- a bold plan to transport water from America’s flooded Midwestern rivers to the arid and increasingly drought-stricken Southwest to provide much-needed water to the region’s cities and towns, and to catalyze the development of a network of new sustainable water-oriented senior “wellness villages.” The heart of the Green America Plan 2050 is a National Smart Multi-Grid - a national grid of water, green electricity, smart rail transportation, broadband telecommunications, and strategically located new roadways and railways - and the Infrastructure Jobs Initiative that will build it. The Green America Plan also includes the creation of a network of model green communities in the warm climates of the Southwest, especially to accommodate the current 65 million baby boomers and the growing number of retirees by midcentury. A new Midwest-to-Southwest Water Pipeline - of some 12 to 18 feet in diameter and hundreds of miles long - is the core of the National Smart Multi-Grid, but the grid will also implement a green electricity “smart grid” that transports solar and wind power across both regions, trading water for green power to meet President Obama’s climate change initiative. In addition, along with a rural 4G broadband network that provides high-bandwidth access to national and global e-commerce, online learning, telemedicine, mobile banking, teleconferencing, many forms of telepresence, and a literal world of information will be included in this Multi-Grid.

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The Green America Plan 2050 and its Infrastructure Jobs Initiative is multi-faceted in its aims, development, and details: GAP 2050 will create millions of construction jobs to rebuild and reinvest in an efficient and highly sustainable rural and urban America - now the least sustainable part of this country -- that can accommodate many of the 65 million U.S. baby boomers who as a group are already retiring poorer than their parents’ generation, as well as some of America’s projected overall population growth. GAP 2050 will also develop Native American Villages, for they were the pioneers in creating sustainable villages.

tax-increment financing, will be utilized as well. Key to the financing of this massive project is the successful launching of the proposed United States Infrastructure Bank, which will play a crucial role in enabling and sustaining this 40-year enterprise. GAP 2050 is President Obama’s American Jobs Act on steroids.

Some of our country’s greatest presidents have led it out of major economic and social crises, depressions, and recessions -- and through wonderful periods of great national enterprise and pride -- by creating millions of jobs while building and rebuilding America’s, and even the world’s infrastructure: [See GRID, Page 7]

GAP 2050 will help develop a new form of rural and urban agriculture (which increasingly will overlap with a similar form of urban agriculture) of efficient “vertical farms” engaged in volumetric low-water and hydroponic specialized crop production in large greenhouses that in some cases will be converted warehouses and unfinished high rise buildings. Some of the green villages and transition towns will include facilities and Genentech parks for clean micro-assembly plants serving the growing distributed manufacture of electric vehicles, LED components, lithium air batteries, and other new products, and factories producing assembly parts for green modular building construction. Bold and progressive public leadership will be essential to the financing of the Green America Plan and National Smart Multi-Grid, and the communities the Multi-Grid will transform, create, and empower. Private-public partnerships will be the currency of the project, initially launched by federal and state land grants for the development of new townships and by the sale of water and power. Similar in nature to the townships associated with the expansion of the railroad system during the 1800s. Other creative economic development strategies, for example,

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Moreno Valley Business Journal [GRID, from Page 6] Lincoln (the Transcontinental Railroad linking east and west), the first Roosevelt (the Panama Canal, national public works, and new federal functions), Hoover (Boulder Dam, which provided water and power to a swath of the Southwest -- as will the National Multi-Grid), the second Roosevelt (the Works Projects Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps that reforested America and created 800 parks and built thousands of roads, bridges and tunnels, and the G.I. bill that provided education and training benefits to World War II Veterans who built the U.S. suburbs and middle class), Truman (the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe after that war), Eisenhower (the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 a.k.a. National Interstate and Defense Highways Act that created a new national safe highway system and a Highway Trust Fund, maintained by the modest U.S. gasoline tax, to maintain it), and Kennedy (a man on the moon!). President Obama has the opportunity to provide a similar framework for creating millions of useful jobs while giving the country a roadmap for a sustainable future in the 21st century. The National Smart Multi-Grid Initiative is a bold, mixed-use jobs generator just like those deployed in America’s major economic crises of

the past, visionary national projects that propelled America into the economic superpower. We’ve gotten soft since then. The current generation of living Americans have a chance -- and an historic planetary duty -- to transform America, the planet’s premier consumption and waste economy, into a sustainable economy that provides lessons and new capabilities to the rest of the world. Let’s get as close as we can, as fast as we can, to a systemically sustainable low-energy, zero-waste, zero-carbon “circle economy” that mimics and preserves the circle of life. Today’s “perfect economic storm” against the backdrop of an unsustainable fossil-fueled society is the time to do it. Consider these major threats to our free market system: • Global climate change creating floods in the Midwest, hurricane floods in the Northeast, drought in the Southwest and forest fires in the West; • The end of cheap oil; • Explosive global population growth that adds another billion people every dozen years, giving us 9.5 billion human souls by mid-century; • The global food and clean water crises; • The decade-long war in Afghanistan and the continuing chaos and

religious war in Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, just beginning and the continuing “war on terror”; • Our unending addictions to oil and drugs -- and the continuing “war on drugs”; • The massive $17 trillion U.S. national debt and the growing U.S. trade deficit, primarily caused by imported oil; and • Wall Street’s financial crimes, shenanigans and schemes, Main Street’s business failures, and too many families’ foreclosed homes. We are at the end of the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the Green Digital Revolution of information technology (IT) and green technology (GT) to create a sustainable global future. The construction of the National Smart Multi-Grid will empower unemployed Americans, especially highly skilled and disciplined returning veterans, and their communities in a large part of the central and southwestern U.S. during and for decades after its creation. America must reinvent, redesign and re engineer its economic system to put itself -- and the world and the planet -- on a road to economic, social, and environmental recovery in this decade and a sustainable future during the generations that follow.

The next Meeting of the Tesla Science Foundation Of Moreno Valley & Riverside County will be July 19, 2014 at 3;00 pm Saturday 23402 Toucan Pl. MoVal, CA. 92557 The Tesla Science Foundation is currently focusing its efforts on Bringing Tesla into School Curriculums in the US and throughout the World. Together with the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade and a large gathering of other important organizations and individuals, this will be our biggest achievement yet in accurately promoting the life and legacy of Nikola Tesla. We invite all who are interested to take part in this important project, not only for Tesla, but for the World. Continuing Tesla’s work, and adopting Tesla’s philosophy, will give the entire world the freedom we all deserve. Free Energy and Free Communication are Integral Parts of Freedom. The Tesla Science Foundation has a traveling Tesla exhibit, called “Tesla: Past, Present and Future” and plans to travel across North America, focusing attention of schools and universities. Schools adopting Tesla into their curriculum will be awarded a bronze plaque or bust for display.

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