GREENSBORO-HIGH POINT
PRIORITY AREA:
Building a Workforce to Meet Current and Future Needs EASTERN TRIAD WORKFORCE INITIATIVE (ETWI) Ask: Add an additional $4.5M in non-recurring funding to continue investments in ETWI initiatives in all four counties (Alamance, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham) for FYs 21/23. Impact: Continue to expand youth and adult worker pipeline. • Increase Youth Pre-Apprenticeships and Apprenticeships by 759% and 842% (cumulative and respective). » Serve additional sectors: IT, Cybersecurity, Aviation, Healthcare, Logistics, and Construction. » Expand Junior Achievement’s successful, 10-school pilot career exposure program to 20 (half) Eastern Triad Middle Schools. • Create robust Adult/Incumbent Worker Training Services (IWT), leveraging on-the-job training and IWT for a 250% increase. • Launch Adult Pre-Apprenticeships and Apprenticeships. • Pivoting to Virtual and Distance Learning Opportunities and Technology
READY FOR SCHOOL, READY FOR LIFE EARLY CHILDHOOD PILOT INITIATIVE Ask 1: $575K in FY 22/23 to fund a 3-year implementation of Model Work Standards for Early Childhood Programs developed by UNCG’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, in 8 early care and education centers.
Ask 2: $1.025M in FY 22/23 to support building, testing, and improving integrated data system technology that is necessary to provide empirical data for decision-making, and to secure the $70M phase 2 funding from The Duke Endowment/Blue Meridian.
Impact: Empirical data is critical to secure $70M in Phase 2 funding from The Duke Endowment/Blue Meridian. • 55% of Guilford County children aren’t reaching 2 key indicators of self-sufficiency and success in adulthood: arriving at kindergarten ready to succeed and then reading at grade level by grade 3. • In 2018 The Duke Endowment and Blue Meridian chose Guilford County as a national disruption pilot site, one of two communities in the country targeted for $100M each in possible investment to improve the early childhood support industry.
SIX PILOT CAREER ACADEMIES Ask: $1M in FY 22/23 for Industry-Standard Equipment and Technology and the necessary space renovations, which have proven critical to the success of such programs in other areas of the country.
Impact: 2,400 students in grades 9-12 will be served in these 6 Pilot Signature Advanced Career Academies when fully populated.
• 6 innovative Signature Career Academies: 2 Academies of Manufacturing & Engineering | 2 Academies of Computer and Information Science | 1 Academy of Transportation, Distribution & Logistics | 1 Academy of Biomedical Technology » 553 students are currently enrolled in academy classes. • Grant-funded equipment and technologies will enhance students’ learning and help ensure they are workplace ready.
GTCC AVIATION CENTER Ask: Continue to support the GTCC Aviation Center’s current and future funding needs. Impact: Thank you for providing $15M, $2M in FY 21/22 and $13M in FY 22/23, for this facility that will play a critical role in educating and training the workforce necessary to meet the needs of our quickly-growing aerospace industry, including the recently announced Boom Supersonic Overture Superfactory at PTI Airport.
PRIORITY AREA:
Growing Tomorrow’s Jobs Today AIRCRAFT PARTS SALES & USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR MAINTENANCE, REPAIR & OPERATIONS (MRO) Ask: Amend the sales and use tax exemption on aviation parts for aircraft 2,000 pounds maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) and above, not just for 9K-15K | and >100K pounds MTOW aircraft.
Impact: It will add 60 jobs in the short term, with an average base pay of $70K per year (economic impact per job $280K), meaning a positive economic impact of $16.8M.
• North Carolina MROs currently enjoy an estimated 52% combined market share of mid-Atlantic aircraft service with an estimated value of $14.4M on currently available aircraft products. • If NC’s sales and use tax were eliminated on the sale of parts on aircraft 2K-9K lbs and 15K-100K lbs MTOW, the growth potential of NC’s share is estimated to be an additional 15% with a value of $4.2M, with a fiscal impact of only $485K.
GREENSBORO – RANDOLPH MEGASITE
PIEDMONT TRIAD INTERNATIONAL MEGASITE
Thank you for your support of the megasite with $320M budgeted in 2021. With the announcement of Toyota Battery Manufacturing Inc.’s more than $1B investment in its plant that will lead to the creation of 1,750 new jobs, your support will prove transformational for the region and the state. A plan for Phase II expansion, if the company so chooses, would bring the total investment to more than $3B and bring a total of 3,875 jobs.
Your $106,750,000 of funding for this site will prove to be the catalyst for securing North Carolina’s status as First in Flight. With the announcement that Boom Supersonic is locating its Overture Superfactory on the site – an investment of more than $500M that will create 1,761 jobs with an average salary of $68,792 – this project will grow the state’s economy by at least $32.3B and provide a tremendous return on the state’s investment.