Don McClellan
Don McClellan
community entire jobs relationship relationships russell support taken
I think the jobs we had with Russell were always taken for granted. The entire community thought it would never happen. We'd had a relationship with Russell for about 100 years. We always thought Russell would be our support beam.
available certainly college facilities good school shows speaks system technology train workforce
It shows there's an available workforce, and with a good school system and college with a technology center, it certainly speaks that we have a workforce and we have the facilities to train that workforce.
decisions prepared
I don't think any decisions have been made. We'll try to be prepared if they do.
increased russell sales taxes though
Even though Russell was restructuring, sales taxes still increased little by little.
hard industries industry looking places
It's just hard. It's like they say, you've got 15,000 places looking to get industry and 1,500 industries looking to locate.
close community companies gotten include jobs ours prepared small total
We've gotten 11 companies with a total of close to 800 jobs (since 1998). That doesn't include expansions, either. We're making progress. We've got the parks, and I think we're as prepared as a small community like ours can be.
hope
We hope we would get some suppliers out of it.
asset protect
We know what an asset we have, now we have to protect it. That's what watershed is all about.