Small Towns, Big IdeasStaking Our Claim To Secure a Strong Housing & Economic Future

WELCOME

Heather PhillipsProgram Coordinator, MWV Regional Collaboration

Since 2013 the results of many meetings, surveys community discussion forums, personal interviews and presentation have been reviewed and

reflected upon by the MWVRC Steering Committee and the members of the Regional Roundtable Advisory Council.

COMMUNITIES WE SERVE:

New HampshireAlbanyBartlett

ChathamConway

EatonFreedom

Hart’s LocationJacksonMadisonOssipee

Tamworth

MaineBrownfieldFryeburg

ECONOMIC GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT • QUALITY OF LIFE

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THANK YOU

Jac CuddyMWV Economic Council

Victoria LaracyMWV Housing Coalition

Paul ChantMWV Economic Council

Steering Committee

Evelyn WheltonMWV Housing Coalition

Josh McAllisterMWV Economic Council

Sue RukaMemorial Hospital/MWV Health Collaboration

Thank you for all your time and commitmentGreydon TurnerMWV Economic Council

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• NH Business Magazine – New Hampshire’s Top Personal Injury Lawyer• New Hampshire Bar Association Presidents Award• New Hampshire Association for Justice Presidents Award• Mount Washington Valley Economic Council Board Member of the Year• Served as Chair of the New Hampshire Bar Foundation• Served as Chair of the New Hampshire Association for Justice• Appointed to Governors Commission to Reduce Workers Compensation Costs

Named New Hampshire’s top lawyer for Personal Injury, Paul Chant has been involved in handling personal injury and workers compensation claims for over 28 years.

Paul has handled hundreds of cases, ranging from death and paralysis cases to whiplash claims. Paul has handled injury claims of virtually every kind (auto, motorcycle, bicycle, medical product and medical negligence, slip and fall, premises liability, dog bites) and every injury (spine injuries, brain injuries, leg, hip, pelvis, arm, fractures, amputation, facial injuries, etc).

Paul ChantPartner, Cooper, Cargill & ChantNorth Conway, NH

MODERATOR

Stuart ArnettCEO, Arnett Development GroupConcord, NH

Stuart Arnett became the Managing Partner of the Arnett Development Group LLC (ADG) in 2006. ADG succeeds an earlier community development business established in 1987. ADG provides planning and development services and project implementation to communities, not-for-profits, higher-education and businesses. ADG utilizes a team of subject-matter experts in land-use planning, landscape and building architecture, branding, finance, and community outreach.

• Served two four-year terms as the Director of Economic Development for the State of New Hampshire

• Director of Development and Planning for the City of Claremont, New Hampshire. During his tenure, the city’s Development Authority’s net worth grew by more than 400%, while the city’s tax rate dropped for seven consecutive years.

High Level Perspective

- Workforce Housing and Sustainable Economy

- Generational Opportunity

- How To Use Planning & Zoning to Move the Needle

-Action Steps

Stuart Arnett

ADG- Arnett Development Group LLC

17 South State Street – STE 1

Concord, New Hampshire 03301

603.219.0043

“(to) …examine key

policy issues and

develop a strategic

plan”

www.ADG.solutions

• We believe every community can have a Better Future

• Our Mission is to Help communities discover and implement their better future by providing smart solutions for land-use planning, economy development and site redevelopment.

• Nearly virtual, 8 core on Team

• ADG:“Alpha Dawg Group”

• 12th year

• Focus is high need, low-resource communities

• “Comeback Communities”• They were up

• Then down

• Now going up again, differently

www.ADG.solutions

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High Level Observations and Ponderings

• Then: Development - Outward• Frontiers to Farms• New Rails and Roads• Manufacturing Economy

• Migration: Go to the work

• New “Factories” for Knowledge-Service Economy

• Offices and Office Parks• Malls and Commercial Strips• Suburbs and • Remote Vacation Homes

• Urban Flight and Decline

• Now: Re-Development – Inward• Vertical Farming• Internet: “Death of Distance”• Distribution key: Logistics• Mix of Work-Live-Surf-Play-Buy-

Chat….• Decline of suburbs and suburban

shopping• Resort Villages• In-town Redevelopment IF

• Amenities• Housing

• Site Decisions: Bring work to people

www.ADG.solutions

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High Level - continued

• Then: Development• Outward

• Raw land to Development

• Individual is focus• Privacy - Isolation

• Safety

• Taxes

• Municipal job is to protect• Rules

• Certainty

• Don’t spend (invest)

• Now: Redevelopment:• Inward

• Development to Redevelopment

• Community-Building is focus:

• “Package”• Amenities

• Health

• Social

• Municipal job is to provide the “Package”

• Costs (taxes) less important

www.ADG.solutions

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Generational Comparisons: An Opportunity?

• Boomers• Acquired wealth

• Working on Bucket Lists

• Health and Health Access

• Downsizing homes and selling businesses

• Want the Community Package

• Not Too Sure About Diversity and Change

• Want Stability and Certainty

• Gen X and Millennials• Cash Strapped

• Working on lost-time from 2008-2015

• Healthy living-eating

• Upsizing homes and buying or starting businesses

• Want the same Community Package

• Crave diversity, newness, flexibility, change

www.ADG.solutions

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Zoning & Planning (and Economy Development)

• Zoning: Playing Defense• Rules• Site specific• Forever

• Building-Fire Codes: Penalty Flags• Complex• Arbitrary• “Life Safety”• Not Redevelopment Friendly

• Planning: Coaching• Thinking-Visioning• Flexible• Encourages Redevelopment• Subjective

• Economy Development• Playing Offense

• Actionable:• Look to redevelopment• Broker Boomer-Millennial Transitions• Include Life Safety in the “Why”• Play Offense – Economy Development

• Team Sport

www.ADG.solutions

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Questions?THANK YOU

Arnett Development Group

17 South State Street – STE 1

Concord, New Hampshire 03301

www.ADG.solutions

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Ken LibbyOwner/Broker, Owner/Broker, Stowe Area Realty Former Selectman and Police Chief

After 17 years as Police Chief of the resort community of Stowe, Vermont, Ken Libby started his commercial real estate career in the early 80s working part time for one of the lead commercial brokers in Northern Vermont. Finding much success over the year his office now serves the entire state of Vermont for commercial properties and the northern half of the state for residential properties.

• Selectman, Town of Stowe,• Executive Director, Vermont Sheriff’s Association:• Police Chief, Town of Stowe• President, Vermont Association of REALTORS • President, Vermont Commercial Investment Board of REALTORS® 2001 & 2002.• REALTOR® of the Year, CIBOR, 2001, 2003 & 2012.• State of Vermont REALTOR® of the Year 2003 and 2012• NAR Hall of Fame

Chris DaviesPrincipal, Great Bridge PropertiesPortsmouth, NH

Chris Davies has been a principal of Great Bridge Properties, an affordable housing development company, since its inception in 2000. To date he has developed over 750 units of housing and commercial space valued in excess of $140 million dollars. He has worked in virtually every facet of the real estate business since graduating from the University of New Hampshire in 1981.

Some topics to discuss for Community Development • How do you engage with the local community• Who do you need to engage with to make a project successful• Challenges working with regulatory bodies• How do you engage the abutters and citizen of the community

Taylor CaswellCommissionerDepartment of Business & Economic Affairs

Taylor’s career spans over 20 years in both the public and private sectors. On the private sector side, Taylor has structured and funded three startups in utility-scale solar power development, affordable housing development, and sustainable finance; directed external affairs for a Fortune 500 natural gas utility company and its affiliated development ventures, and represented the financial services industry in Washington D.C.

Served as Executive Director of the Community Development Finance Authority

Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s New England Region

Spent a decade in Washington including time as senior Congressional staff. He also recently chaired the N.H. Energy & Climate Collaborative and in 2013 founded the N.H. CleanTech Council

Dr. Chuck LloydInterim President,White Mountains Community College

Dr. Chuck Lloyd is currently the Interim President of White Mountains Community College. In addition to his role in administration, he crosses over to the faculty side of the college by teaching in the Business Department.

In addition to administration and teaching, he maintains a strong passion for leadership and service. In the past few years, Chuck has offered dozens of workshops and presentations both internationally and in the States on a variety of leadership and management-focused topics.

• Recently selected as one of New Hampshire’s “Forty under 40” by the Union Leader• Awarded the NHTI Service Learning Award and Commissioner’s Award for Service Excellence.

• BS, Keene State College• MS Education and Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies,

Plymouth State University• Ed.D in Higher Education Administration, Northeastern University

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CCSNH’s mission centers on student success and access,

aligning with workforce and educational attainment needs

• 40% are 25 and

older.

• 43% of our

students are

first-generation

• 63% of our

students are

part-time

CCSNH serves 28,000

students annually, which

translates to roughly 2.5

percent of the adult

population of New

Hampshire any given

year is a CCSNH

student, once you

exclude Running Start

New Hampshire, 65 by 25How we are using game-changing strategies

to improve the lives of NH residents

Like New England as a whole, New Hampshire must

maintain a well-educated workforce despite

demographic challenges

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• With baby boomers set to retire, workforce will drop

50,000 from 2010 to 2030, .3 percent per year, which

will add pressure to an already tight labor supply

• Projections in rural counties are more dire. In Coos

County, for example, working age population may

decline 25 percent by 2030

• There will be a business tax revenue decline

simultaneous to increased demand for public

services

http://www.nhpolicy.org/UploadedFiles/Reports/Demogr

aphy_Final_218.pdf

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At the same time as the population is aging, middle-skill jobs

are in increasing demand

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Source: “The Shifting Enrollment Landscape,” Education Advisory

Board – citing National Skills Coalition, “United States’ Forgotten

Middle,” 2014 and EAB Interviews

• Nationally, by 2022, about half of all

jobs will require some education

• In New Hampshire, job postings in

the last year have required skills in

business, financial operations and

management; healthcare;

education, training, and library; and

STEM-related fields.

• Present postings and county-

specific projections inform where

we want to focus program

development energy

Demographic hurdles point to need to educate present residents

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36.0%

In-state postsecondary education

None

32.0%Out-of-state 32.0%

Increase enrollment

• With decreasing high school class

sizes on the horizon in New

Hampshire, it is critical we draw more

students into higher education.

• This represents the access side of our

mission statement but means little

without the student success side

Increase success

• Students that stay in New Hampshire and attend post-secondary must complete

College --- and this requires setting completion targets and enabling their

accomplishment

• Credentials must actually represent economic and continuing education value –

whether to baccalaureate and master’s programs and/or local business

Where NH students go after HS

Source: NHDOE, reports on enrollment and post-completion outcomes

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• 79 percent of CCSNH

graduates end up in

occupations related to

their fields of study

• Top two areas of

employment are

healthcare and

information technology

• Management is the

most frequently stated

skill, associated with 35

percent of alumni. This

skill is often paired with

customer service,

Microsoft office, and

sales (see left)

CCSNH grads end up employed in New Hampshire or Boston,

mostly in their area of study at relatively high median wage

Source: EMSI / Rapid Insight Alumni Insight Collaboration Project, Oct 2017

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• The Community College System of NH (CCSNH) and the University System

(USNH) introduced 65 by 25, a goal to help ensure that 65 percent of adults

25 and older in New Hampshire will have some form of post-secondary

education, from certificates to advanced degrees, by 2025.

• Achieving this goal moves New Hampshire much closer to targets cited in

national research and positions New Hampshire to support a strong future

economy.

• This is a similar goal to ones introduced in other States, in response to

demographic trends

So we need more graduates, and New Hampshire’s

statewide college completion agenda thus crosses

legislative and educational sector lines

CCSNH has had recent success in growing total completions

and, its leading indicator, retention

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628543 615

704

+11%

2016

2,496

1,792

2015

1,810

2,3572,253

1,625 1,742

2013

2,353

2014

Certificates

Degrees

61%60%60%59%

+3%

2015 201620142013

57%55%54%55%

2014

+4%

20162013 2015

Total awards Fall-to-Fall retention

Full-time Part-time

WMCC Snapshot

• Total FY17 Graduates-198

• Current Enrollment for Fall 17-1157

(headcount)

• First Time Freshmen 165

• Retention Rate-46%

• Graduation Rate-34%

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Current Happenings

• Omni Mount Washington Culinary Arts Apprentice Program

• Accelerated Medical Assistant Program

• 100 Percent NCLEX Pass Rate for the Nursing Program

• Successful Reaccreditation for the Child Development Center

• NEASC-External Team Visit 9/30/18-10/3/18

• Northway Bank-Financial Services certificate

• Increased emphasis on dual and concurrent enrollment

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Thank you

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• Questions/Comments

Dean ChristonExecutive Director,New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority

Dean J. Christon was appointed Executive Director of New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority in July 2007. He has been with the Authority since 1987, having served as Deputy Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer and Assistant Executive Director. Prior to joining New Hampshire Housing, Christon was Staff Director for the Joint Committee on Review of Agencies and Programs for the New Hampshire General Court.

• State of New Hampshire’s Council on Resources and Development Community Development Block Grant Advisory Committee Interagency Council on Homelessness

• Economic Development Advisory Council• Board of Directors of the National Council of State Housing Agencies.

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• New Hampshire State Government Operations Task Force• New Hampshire Charitable Fund’s Building Communities

Program Advisory Committee• City of Manchester Housing Counci• Community Development Advisory Council of the Federal Home

Loan Bank of Boston

Past Service:• Past Chair of the Board of Directors of Granite United Way• Chair of the City of Manchester’s Enterprise Community

Advisory Board.• Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Community Development

Advisory Council• Fannie Mae Northern New England Advisory Board

James Key-WallaceExecutive Director,New Hampshire Business Finance Authority

James Key-Wallace is the Executive Director of the NH Business Finance Authority. With a deep background in finance, investment, and economic development in NH, he served as a senior investor at Vested for Growth and the NH Community Loan Fund where he was responsible for all aspects of lending to and investing in NH-based businesses.

He has also served as vice president of the Monadnock Economic Development Corporation in Keene, and in various private sector roles early in his career.

RESOURCESStrategies To Support Affordable Housing & Economic Diversification

1. To provide a baseline understanding of the unique characteristics and issues that each MWV community faces with respect to affordable housing and economic diversification.

2. To serve as a resource for best practices with regard to regulation and land use management.

3. To offer strategies and policy suggestions that are relevant to each MWV member community

4. To provide a roadmap for the Partnership as a regional organization to assist member communities in implementing the policies and strategies outlined in this report.

OBJECTIVES:

THANK YOU

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

--Henry Ford