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Strategic plan kicking into gear
Ken Gousseau In addition, the committee is partnering with Brian Gale, who will aid the committee in
Medicine Hat News Community Futures Entre-Corp Business implementing its strategies.

Development and the Brooks and District
“One of our big goals right now is working
The Brooks Economic Development and
Chamber of Commerce on a state-of-the-
on an investment package for developers
Tourism Committee’s recently created
union-style breakfast, where the Mayor of
and investors who want to come to Brooks
strategic plan is kicking into gear, with
Brooks, Martin Shields, County of Newell
and invest in the community,” Hemmingway
several new initiatives underway in 2009.
Reeve Molly Douglass and local MLA Arno
says.
Doerksen will speak about where the region
The committee was formed nearly two
is headed in 2009.
Part of the committee’s mandate is to
years ago to sustain, promote and facilitate recommend an economic development
brooks
economic and tourism growth and
Another key initiative for the committee this
and tourism strategy to Brooks Council
employment opportunity in the community.
year is the improvement of business front
and conduct a full review of that strategy
and street front appeal in the city, which has
“Our biggest focus is just trying to implement
annually.
a population of more than 13,000
some of the strategies that we’ve come up
residents.
with in our strategic plan. It’s going to take
some time. It’s a living document and new
“We want people to start taking an
things keep coming up,” says committee
interest in improving the facade
chair Christy Hemmingway.
of their buildings,” Hemmingway
says.
“We just want to make sure that we are
making Brooks an attractive place for
“Part of the problem with that is
industry and investors who want to come
not everybody owns the building
here.”
that they are doing their business
in so we have to get the interest
This year, the seven-member committee
from the landowners too, which
will be working with the City on a plan to
can be difficult sometimes.”
improve the continuity and consistency of
signage throughout the community.
The City of Brooks recently hired a
new business development officer,
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