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Background
• members requested plan for seven years running
• board agreed with need, but declined to lead effort
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Background (cont.)
• Gov. Lynch stepped down
• no other group stepped up
• BIA board approved development of Strategic Economic Plan for New Hampshire (Oct. 2012)
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Process
• BIA board oversight committee formed (Oct. 2012)
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Board Oversight Committee
• Don Baldini, Liberty Mutual• Joe Carelli, Citizens Bank• Nancy Clark, Glen Group• Brad Cook, Sheehan Phinney, et al.• Mike Donahue, Aries Engineering• Linda Fanaras, Millennium Integrated Mktg• Bryan Granger, C & S Wholesale Grocers
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Board Ovrsght Comm. (cont.)
• Lisa Guertin, Anthem BCBS• Ed MacKay, UNSNH, retired• John Morison, Hitchiner Manufacturing• Joe Murray, Fidelity Investments• Teresa Rosenberger, Devine Strategies• Dick Samuels, McLane Graf, et al.• Dennis Sasseville, Normandeau Associates
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Board Ovrsght Comm. (cont.)
• Tim Scullin, Sig Sauer• Tim Sink, Greater Concord Chamber• Tom Sullivan, Sturm Ruger• Steve Webb, TD Bank• Don Welch, Globe Manufacturing
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Process (cont.)
• Created vision statement and scope of project (Nov-Dec. 2012)
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A Vision for New Hampshire
To ensure New Hampshire provides meaningful advantages for businesses
through a vibrant, sustainable economy and the nation’s best environment in which our
residents can prosper.
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Process (cont.)
• New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies (NHCPPS)
analyzed New Hampshire’s economic landscape and provided benchmark data for comparison
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Process (cont.)
• Synchrony Advisors LLC and Mather Associates LLC (Synchrony-Mather), led by John Gilbert and Cotton Cleveland
facilitated the stakeholder meetings and developed the initial draft of plan
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Process (cont.)
• Board oversight committee established nine key issue areas:
business growth, retention & attraction education/workforce skills/labor pool energy fiscal/tax
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Process (cont.)
• healthcare• infrastructure• natural, cultural & historic resources• regulatory environment, and • workforce housing
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Process (cont.)
• Formed nine stakeholder groups around issue areas (April, May and June)
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Process (cont.)
• Two charges for each stakeholder group:
1. Establish goal in support of vision statement
2. Develop tactics/recommendations in support of goal
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Special Focus: Advanced Manufacturing/High Tech
• Most important sector of New Hampshire’s economy by virtually every measure
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Three Themes Emerged
• New Hampshire expensive for business• Consistency and predictability of business
environment a challenge• Access to STEM-educated, workplace-
ready labor pool
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Process (cont.)
• Drafting of Strategic Economic Plan for the benefit of New Hampshire began in July
• Review, editing, redrafts by BIA staff and board oversight committee (Aug. – Sep.)
• Debate, discussion, final edits, approved by full board (unanimous) Oct. 1st
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Plan Includes Over 100 Recommendations
• 12 recommendations in EDUCATION, WORKFORCE SKILLS and LABOR POOL section of plan
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Goal for Education, Workforce Skills and
Labor Pool
New Hampshire possesses a high-quality, cost-effective, lifelong educational system that provides access and affords all residents the same educational opportunities that align with the needs of a robust, innovative, flexible, productive workforce.
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Education, Workforce Skills and Labor Pool (cont.)
• Key Metrics
• 12 tactics (recommendations)