The Economic Development Officer is currently working on four large scale community(whole Municipal District) based projects:
- The MD like industry is facing pressure to provide employment and training opportunities to the communities. One of our first steps is to host a stakeholder event that includes the educational institutions, industry, and the business community to identify the following:
- We want to engage the business community in a dialogue addressing the gaps and limitations being faced. Ideally, the employment and training needs will become very clear.
- Business loans for expansions or new start ups will be another critical area that the M.D. and Community Futures could identify.
- Continue to work with Land and Real Estate Developers to build commercial and retail spaces and businesses.
- The M.D. & Bigstone Cree Nation have jointly released the request for "Expressions of Interest" to a number of banking institutions. This initial step in the process is to get full-service banking services in Wabasca should conclude by year end.
- Wabasca Trade Show, September 22nd & 23rd at the new Multiplex featuring business, Industry and government services in northern AB that support our district.