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Paris and the Red River Region 7 Road Map & Initiative Sustainable Manufacturint Therefore, we will assess and uitimately recommend actions and potential soiutions baseci on linking and leveraging these four pilfars - Academic, Industry, Government, and Philanthropy - leading to a more comprehensive approach to accelerating the Initiat+ve lmplementation Plan. We anticipaie key elements of the recommendations wi1l include: • State, County, and Locaf policies and practices including transformation of regulations, rules, and/or incentives. • Communiceting and Informing the General Public on results and impacf (economic and societal) from the Initiative activities, planning and results. • Building the Commercial and Industrial innovation networks and the PEDC `intermediary'ta sustain the work and actions aver a period af time through appropriate resource allocation, siate and local investments, and attraction of assets and monies as weil as people and talents to the Region. On-going daia collection, information and knowledge sharing, and monitoring progress - samewhat of a canstant dashboarci or index of inetrics to moniior progress • Funding tactics including leveragtng existing relationships internal and extemal to the Region. Finally, the Sustainabte Manu#acturing Initiative will have an impact an the PEDCs current physical intrastructure around the Industria( Park, Business Incubator, the Airport, and tts affiliaiian with o{der facilities in transition as well as the expansion of existing operations among national and regional brands. While we will not conduct a site seiection nor a land-use analysis in this phase, we wilf provide insights as to how other regions have exploited simi{ar infrasiructure and make recommendations for cansideration by PEDC and it's public and private sector partners. Task 4: On-Site Presentation of Findings and Recommendations OutpUt/Key Action Steps . Richard Seline, in person, and others remately, wiil provide a four one-day on-site se1 of presentations to target auc4iences as identified by PEDC and its partners. . Ftichard Seline will canduct two to three interviews as approved with state and local media and communications interests at the directian of PEDC. PEDC will arrange said presentations and interviews, and all materiais will be pre-approved before presentation to ihe general public and media. • Finally, a capstane of i'hase 1 and therefore Task 4: PEDC and Richard Seiine will conduct a Tawn- Hall Meeting for #he three-county region io announce the launch of the Sustainable Manufaciuring Initiative in early September 2011. . By this time, it is expected that key State agencies and commissions will have cQmmitted towards funding the Initiative and the work of certain tasks in Phase 2(workfarce, competency ciusier assessment leading to new training and education pragrams for instance). 5 of 6 41