3/27 Blog Topic: Robin Sternberg’s Attends CALED’s 38th Annual Training Conference

Written on March 27, 2018. Posted in Blog

March 27, 2018

Robin Sternberg’s Attends CALED’s 38th Annual Training Conference

Last week Marin Economic Forum’s Chief Executive Robin Sternberg attended the 38^th Annual Training Conference hosted by the California Associate for Local Economic Development (CALED). The event was held in Monterey with approximately 400 economic development professionals from nearly 100 communities in California. Robin was the only economic development representative from Marin. CALED’s mission is dedicated to advancing its members’ ability to achieve excellence in delivering economic development services to their communities and business clients. The association consists of public and private organizations that focus on the business of creating and retaining jobs.

CALED’s mission is dedicated to advancing its members’ ability to achieve excellence in delivering economic development services to their communities and business clients. The association consists of public and private organizations that focus on the business of creating and retaining jobs.

The sessions and speakers covered a lot of ground on things that matter to communities throughout California, including legislative overviews of SB 375 and SB 1, infrastructure and transportation issues (autonomous vehicles and congestion planning) disruptions in the retail economy and how that affects local retail tax revenues, and much more. One of the highlights was the Thursday breakout session, the Changing Face of Economic Development: Land Uses, Sustainability, and Housing. Others that were relevant to the North Bay economy included Business Attraction Tools, Employee Ownership: Preserving California’s Small Businesses & Saving Jobs as well as the session on Tourism Improvement Districts. The luncheon session on cannabis and its potential for revenue generation for vital infrastructure capitalization was as interesting as one might expect and listened to attentively by an audience that has at least one thing in common with each other – the constant need to develop new funding.