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Economic Development Council

Florida Unemployment Falls Sharply to 8.1%, But Flagler’s Edges Back Up to 11.4%

December 21, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Florida’s unemployment rate dropped sharply in November, to 8.1 percent, from 8.5 percent last month–and 10.1 percent a year ago–but Flagler County’s unemployment rate rose a decimal point, to 11.4 percent.

Greg Rawls, Long-Time Face of Economic Development in Flagler, Opts For a New Tribe

September 4, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Greg Rawls had been Enterprise Flagler’s executive director since 2007 before Palm Coast and Flagler County killed that economic development partnership, and Flagler formed its own, where Rawls worked as a manager. He’ll be working for Creek Indian Enterprises in Alabama.

Farm to Flag: One Commissioner’s Idea to Cultivate Flagler’s Agricultural Powers

August 27, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Ideally, Farm to Flag would provide fresh foods to public nutrition programs while revitalizing the area’s major agricultural industries, creating more jobs and boosting the local economy through one of its traditional mainstays. But the program is rife with obstacles.

For $50,000, Flagler County Hires Marketing Firm to Buff Up Economic Development

August 20, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

The Flagler County Commission this evening approved a $50,000 contract with Orlando-based Solodev, a marketing and web-design firm that pledges to launch the county’s revamped economic development website by January 2013.

Flagler Chamber and County’s Jobs Council Hosting $25-a-Plate “Unity” Lunch Aug. 17

July 21, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Dale Brill, president of the Florida Chamber Foundation, is the guest speaker for what the local chamber and the county are calling a “unity in the community” lunch at Palm Coast’s Hilton Garden Inn.

Unemployment Rises Again in Flagler, To 12.3%, Stalls at 8.6% in Florida

July 20, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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June unemployment numbers were discouraging in Florida as well as in Flagler and Volusia counties–stalling in the state at 8.6 percent, with just 9,000 jobs created last month, while the unemployment rate jumped again in Flagler to 12.3 percent, and to 9.1 percent in Volusia.

“Corruption Risks” Cited at Enterprise Florida, the State’s Economic Development Agency

April 26, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Integrity Florida, a new watchdog group, faults Enterprise Flagler, the public-private partnership, for producing too few jobs while perks such as tax breaks and incentive grants went to corporations that paid to serve on the agency’s board.

404 Error: Flagler Jobs Council Tangles Over Its Web Address, then Delegates

April 4, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

It’s what happens when a committee of nine tries to do the 21st century equivalent of screwing in a light bulb: come up with a web address to describe itself. Flagler County’s fledgling jobs council couldn’t do it.

Rites of Spring: Flagler’s Jobs Council Retreats to Princess Place for Goal-Setting With CEO

March 28, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

For the third time in three years, an economic development effort gets under way to “to lead Flagler County out of the dismal economic landscape” of the last few years, hoping, this time, to make a mark.

Perth Amboy’s Van Eckert Accepts Flagler’s Offer To Be Economic Development CEO

January 30, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Helga Van Eckert has accepted Flagler County’s government’s offer to become its latest economic development CEO. She will start in late February with a salary of close to $110,000 a year. The future of Greg Rawls, the previous CEO still serving through the transition, is unclear.

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