Telethia Barrett Enterprises 1312 Bigger St. Gary, IN 46404 (219) 200-4045
Re: Gary Youth Services Bureau, GCSC partnership
Grow Gary 2.0 31st May 2020 OVERVIEW Gary needs to grow from within. We need to grow teachers, civil servants, business owners, construction workers, real estate investors, farmers, manufacturers, distribution centers, warehouses with truck level docks, and workers to run all of these self-sustaining vital industries. Creating a pathway to success will take reimagining our education, training and work systems. Gary was once the example of an innovative education system. We can be a great example again for the future. Our goal will be to create a curriculum that students can elect to take from 6th grade 12th grade. We need product development classes. Where they learn about plant life and the health benefits of plant based products and foods to help solve our health disparities. They can learn how to manufacture, warehouse and distribute new products. We need civil servant classes learning how to govern. We know the current education system has failed to educate and prepare our children for a promising future. We also know it is now more than ever necessary that we create and implement curriculum that will not only benefit our students but will grow our city. Our goal should be to grow businesses by seeding/teaching and training, planting with business incubators, fertilizing with micro business loans, and cultivate with ongoing classes, opportunities to expand in Gary and building networks for distribution.
GOALS 1.
Grow Gary based businesses so the city and citizens have quick and easy access to local based businesses
2. Grow students with targeted curriculum and hands on training programs to fill vital positions within the city by working with the GCSC
3. Grow business incubators programs, such as shared manufacturing and warehouse distribution facilities 4. Grow a hands on work programs for students learning manufacturing warehousing, distribution and logistics. 5. Setup a Gary based SBA lending center that hosts ongoing business classes, info of steps to be licensed and operational in the city other words streamlined. Info as to how to what to do and where to go to start a business in Gary should be accessible by phone voice recording or online landing page with links to other business building city wide efforts by organizations or individuals Seek a location to host entrepreneurial elective classes. One location could be the renovated Roosevelt High School location. Roosevelt could be a mixed use location. The first floor could be shops selling locally produced or student produced products or services. The second floor can be rented business cubicles, the third floor can be the Innovation Tech Center that centers on entrepreneurial development of our children during the day and adults at night. Roosevelt can host a small training center for students to learn and for local business development. It could host a fully functional manufacturing filling center, warehouse, distribution center, hydroponics, and farmers markets. The school can gain historic funds to restore and businesses funds to use as an incubator to make Gary not only a transportation hub but a distribution and manufacturing hub. The students should be allowed to learn how to fully execute a business and be able to go down the hall to the SBA lending office and get a small micro loan to start their business that should be grown and maintained right here in Gary, IN.
What fields need growth There are many jobs that need growth from within the city. Here are a few I think can really help the city with self-sustainment. 1.
Teachers a. 10 or 20 graduating seniors get certified to teach and streamlined through a teaching program for CE.
2. Real Estate/Construction/Contractor/Builder License, Low Voltage Wiring Smart Home Automation program while in high school 3. Shared Office, Manufacturing Space that generates rental revenue starting at $50. My plan can generate 1M a year with 16 allotted spaces a. Develop cubicles for phone and computer access b. Develop small private office spaces for private use c. Develop a manufacturing filling shared space d. Develop shared storage space
4. Local News and TV Shows use of the TV equipment at career center kids learn journalism, sound and set preparation a. Local Business Reviews b. Kid TV Hosted Shows c. Local Music and Art Shows d. New Screenplay and Movies Produced in Gary 5. Publications Online and Hardcopy a. Creating Gary History Books b. Create Black History Books c. Publish student poets, artists, writers d. Create Curriculum 6. Organic Grocery Stores from Black Farmers a. Organic Indoor Gardening with unused school building b. Gardening and Farming Classes 7. Civil Servants a. Public safety b. Policy and Law c. Neighborhood Development