Malcolm Graham
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6,335 appearances
66 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 14 Sep
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Ed Driggs, District 7.
Thank you, Manager Jones.
Good evening, Mayor, Council, members of the public.
Shahid Rana, Director of Economic Development.
And I have with me.
So the city of Charlotte has been preparing for significant mobility and transportation investments that will not only impact our communities to help people move about to places of residence, employment, and also tourism, but this is also a substantial opportunity for contracting and employment.
And with that, we have what we call the skilled to build initiative that has small business readiness and also workforce readiness.
And as a part of this initiative, um, as a collective unit between economic development, workforce development, and also procurement and CBI, we've been strategizing on ways that we can get the local economy prepared for this opportunity.
That's ahead of us understanding that this is a 30 year commitment.
There'll be significant investment that will touch all aspects of our community.
How can we prepare the local workforce?
and also small business community for these contracting opportunities.
So with small business readiness, we broke this down into three phases.
The first phase will be a curriculum development.
One of the things that we've talked about internally and also as a best practice is to actually create a curriculum that prepares small businesses in a few different core areas.
That's business readiness, financial preparedness, certification and bonding,
bid preparation, project management, and a few other skills.
Phase two would also include the facilitation of that curriculum by a nonprofit in which we will go out for a grant.
And then phase three will also be the actual business engagement.
With phase one, we issued out an RFP.
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