Executive Director’s Message
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ur eye is on the prize. That prize is a better quality of life for the citizens of Utah now, and in the future. How are we doing this? Let me give you some examples: • Creating careers for the New Economy: We don’t simply want to create jobs for our children. We want them to have careers. Our business and economic development division is focused on innovative ways to attract, retain and nurture quality companies that bring higher-than-average salaries. •
Creating a quality of life in every community in Utah: Every community, no matter how large or small, has residents that use our housing assistance and homeless programs. The infrastructure of our towns and cities is being constantly improved through grants administered in our Community Development division.
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More quality of life: Quality of life means more than just having a great job. It means having access to the arts, libraries, museums and historical perspective that is enhanced through these divisions.
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Generating revenue: Our Division of Travel Development (Utah Travel Council) is focused on its primary goal of increasing tourism revenues across the state. In a different way, the Film Commission is directly responsible for millions of dollars in revenue generated by filmmakers who use Utah as their backdrop for ads, television series and major motion pictures.
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Teamwork: You can see by our makeup that we are the most diverse agency in state government. We also have a relatively small staff and budget. Teamwork within our department, with the private sector and other agencies of federal, state and local government is essential to providing the best payback to the taxpayers of Utah.
Our department is poised to fully embrace the opportunity of Salt Lake City playing host to the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Our goal is to help extend economic prosperity well beyond 2002, and create a long-term prosperity that extends to all citizens of Utah for years to come.
David B. Winder Executive Director
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