Summer 2011 Newsletter

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JCCI Recession Recovery... and Beyond study released JCCI wrapped up and released the results of its 71st annual study, Recession Recovery…and Beyond, June 15. The study focused on where and how new jobs could be created to help the Northeast Florida area recover from the devastating blow of the recession and how best to position the region for longterm economic growth.

The Study Committee found great opportunity in Northeast Florida for job growth, with Duval County as the economic driver, and the beautiful land, oceans, wetlands, and parks as assets to help retain a skilled and talented workforce and build the presence of innovative businesses.

Opportunities for growth exist in the following fields: port logistics; health/medical sciences and associated

fields; aviation/aerospace and defense contracting; and financial services.

There are also huge opportunities for small businesses to develop in the region, but no specific strategies and financial resources to help these businesses expand.

Northeast Florida also boasts a prestigious medical and life sciences sector that should be leveraged to help improve the economic situation.

However, despite all of the great opportunities for business growth, the Northeast Florida area lacks skilled and trained workers to participate in the economy. Efforts to expand the target industry sectors and to attain and retain a highly qualified workforce will struggle without public and/or private investment.

The ultimate finding behind the study was that Northeast Florida lacks a vision for the future. Leadership should strive to guide the region towards a cohesive vision of sustainable improvements.

Those elements are key for ensuring a lasting recovery from the recession and moving beyond its negataive effects.

To read the entire report, go to www.jcci.org.

Recommendations and implementation effort Five key areas for improvement were identified by the 2011 Study Committee: 1. The creation of jobs in key industry sectors – Opportunites include the expansion of JAXPORT which would be the single largest job creation opportunity in the Northeast Florida region; a concentrated effort by the Health & Biosciences Council to build coalitions, expand medical education programs, and to attract entrepreneurs in the sector; and an aggressive effort by the Cornerstone Regional Partnership to attract aviation/aerospace and defense contractors.

2. Build and maintain a workforce that is educated, and skilled – The JAXUSA Partnership should develop targeted programs to recruit

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entrepreneurs, while the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission should be and advocate for incentives to promote business startups. Partnerships between businesses and public schools should be aggressively pursued to expand career-focused academics.

3. Encouraging the growth of small businesses – The UNF Small Business Development Center should take the lead in unifying the region’s small business development sources to implement a strategic plan to assist start-up businesses.

4. Improving the region’s marketing elements – The Mayor and the City of Jacksonville should support downtown redevelopment and revitalization efforts to give the rest of the country a better

first impression of the city.

5. Securing leadership for sustained economic growth – A coalition led by Northeast Florida’s Regional Council should work to identify, streamline, and standardize regulatory and permitting processes that make it difficult or costly to start, operate, or expand a business.

The Implementation Task Force met June 29 for their first orientation.

The task force is broken out into these subcommittees: Education/Training/ Workforce Development, Health & Biosciences/Academia, Regional Government/Leadership, Innovatation and Economic Development. Interested in joining the Implementation Task Force? Contact Steve Rankin at 904.396.3052 or Steve@jcci.org.

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From the CEO

JCCI Forward

JCCI Events

Greetings from the new CEO of JCCI! Just to clarify, there has been no change of command but the JCCI Board of Directors has approved several changes in our governance structure, including a new title for the Executive Director (now the President & CEO) and for the Board officers (now the Chair and Vice Chairs versus President and Vice Presidents).

These and other changes coming in governance are important to JCCI’s future. They will align our structure more closely with that of other modern nonprofits and they will also streamline governance, while giving the board more opportunities to engage and govern.

The objective is to have these pieces in place for a real new Chairman of the Board and a new CEO when Bill Mason and I step down from our respective roles at JCCI. John Hirabayashi will succeed Bill Mason and the search for my replacement is well underway.

The JCCI “change of command” will occur at the end of a very, very busy JCCI summer. Elaine Brown has successfully led her Recession Recovery Study team to their destination and turned over the ship to Tom Patton, who has already begun navigating the study through its two-year implementation. Meanwhile, we are announcing our newest enterprise, the 1-2-3 Study, looking at how Jacksonville can best foster early learning success for children ages 1 to 3. Elsewhere, we just completed the change of command where Jennifer

Mansfield takes over JCCI Forward from Elexia Coleman Moss, who led Forward through its 10th Anniversary year. While Elexia had a great program year, she will be most famous for the 10th Anniversary Forward Prom. The photos are priceless. Can’t wait for 2021!

And there is more! Some truly amazing work is now being done with JCCI’s online Quality of Life interactive indicators portal, Community Snapshot. Assisted by volunteer researcher Stacey Roussel, we can now display the correlation between indicators with scatter graphs and bubble graphs. This is a tremendous service to grant writers, program evaluators, funders and researchers trying to find interrelationships between indicators like poverty, education, parenting, employment, and geographic location.

For me personally, the highlight of this year will be our 36th Annual Meeting Luncheon, scheduled for Friday, September 9th at the Schultz Center for Teaching & Leadership. You won’t want to miss our special guest speaker, Mayor Julián Castro of San Antonio, Texas.

JCCI recently facilitated the creation of San Antonio’s vision for the future, SA2020, which Mayor Castro is implementing through public-private partnerships.

This is a great opportunity to hear a success story from this very young (37) and very successful mayor of a major metro area that shares many of the challenges of Jacksonville.

See you all on September 9th, if not before.

July 20 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. James Reed and Jeff Sheffield present “Whose Road is it Anyway? Balancing Safety and the Rights of Walkers, Riders, and Drivers.” Join North Florida Regional Transportation executive director Jeff Sheffield and City Planning Department cycling expert James Reed to discuss the challenges of sharing the road. Sheffield and Reed will discuss new opportunities to ride and walk and shed some light on Florida’s reputation as an area that is “hazaradous to bike and pedestrian health.”

August 17 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Tom Scott presents “Taking the Mystery Out of the FCAT” Scott is the Director of Instructional Research and Accountability-Testing. With 25 years of experience, he is in charge of all testing modalities in the Duval County Public School System. Scott will come share his knowledge of norm-reference testing and speak to the history of the FCAT tradition that makes students and teachers cringe. Do you have what it takes to uncover and understand the mysteries behind FCAT? September 9, 2011 is JCCI’s Annual Meeting, “Honing Traditions, Inspiring Future Opportunities.” Fresh from the success of SA2020 and an 82% reelection victory margin, San Antonio’s Mayor Julián Castro will be our keynote speaker. SA2020(www.sa2020.org) has led San Antonio on the path to sustainable job growth, clean energy, and improved quality of life. We are excited to present Castro, to learn from his successes, and to showcase JCCI’s accomplishments and plans for the new year. Table Registration Deadline: Friday, August 26, 2011 at 4:00 pm. Attendee names are due to JCCI no later than 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 1, 2011.

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Celebrating a New Year

JCCI Forward celebrated its 10th Anniversary with a promthemed party on Saturday June 11 at The Hall in Riverside.

Prom goers arrived in their 70s, 80s, and 90s best to honor the most monumental decades of this past century and to celebrate the accomplishments of Forward. It was an exciting way to say goodbye to the past year and ring in the new one.

This year JCCI Forward prepares to welcome Jennifer Mansfield as the new Chair.

For the rest of the summer, jump into one of JCCI Forward’s special training and events!

Going Beyond A Volunteer with Ben Warner: August 18, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Forward’s Kick-Off Social at Layla’s San Marco: August 24, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Find information about all of our events!

Visit our online event calendar: community.jcci.org/eventcalendar

Member spotlight: Jacqui Lowe Jacqui has been a JCCI member and a participant in the JCCI Forward program for 3 years. She was inspired to join at the “Three Years to Take-Over” forum presented in 2008 that discussed what the current generation needs to do to prepare to take leadership roles as the Baby Boomers began retirement. Lowe joined JCCI because she felt it was a good opportunity to learn more Lynn Bertram Heather Burk Moody Chisholm Mi Lim Chun Stephanie Donelan

about the community and gain the skills and tools necessary to be a leader. “It’s the best investment of time I’ve made. I’ve grown a lot over the past 3 years. JCCI is a great place if you’re looking for an opportunity to turn thought into action,” Lowe said.

Lowe has participated in many events, actively demonstrating a commitment to becoming a strong leader that will be able to facilitate a bright future for Jacksonville. The best event this year, accoring to Lowe, was the Forward Prom. “It was a great way to meet new people and introduce them to Forward and to reconnect with old friends.”

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