2019 WEDCO Annual Meeting Tues day, Mar c h 1 2 , 2 0 1 9 W illiams C ounty Veter ans Memor ial 11:00AM - 1:00P M
Keeping Williams County Connected
WEDCO is YOUR Advocate! Working together with the community, schools, businesses, and local & state governments
WEDCO Involvement • NORED – Matt Davis, Executive Board Member, Secretary • OSU Ext. Advisory Board • Northwest Ohio Rural Broadband Tech Committee • TID Board • NWOESC • RTPO Strategy Committee • RLF (City of Bryan/Williams County) • CEDS Steering Committee • Community Health Improvement Committee • ECHO (Drug Free Williams County) • OEDA Members • JobOhio Network Meetings • BIPAC • APA Zoning & Planning Workshop, guest speaker
Williams County Job Fair Hosted in partnership by OhioMeansJobs & WEDCO Sponsored by:
Sponsored by: 2 nd Annual Williams County Job Fair October 24, 2019
Workforce development continues to be our priority.
2018 Legislative Tour
Opportunity Zone & HUB Zone Event • Ohio designated 320 low-income census tracts across the state as Opportunity Zones under the new tax law. • City of Bryan census tract 9506 received the opportunity zone designation in 2018. • This allows investors and companies to defer paying capital gains taxes on investments in exchange for committing to invest that additional money into Opportunity Zones long-term, for 10 years or more.
Williams County Housing Opportunities Assessment • Announced during the 2017 Annual Meeting, WEDCO formed the workforce & marketing subcommittees. Overview of the process • The WEDCO Workforce & Marketing subcommittee consists of approximately 10-20 participants from a variety of backgrounds including government, education, manufacturing, health, insurance, finance, and construction. • In 2018 the first initiative of the subcommittee was pursuing Williams County Housing Study .
Williams County Housing Opportunities Assessment Williams County displays all the tell-tale signs of a housing market poised for growth. • Rental housing vacancies nearly non-existent, below 1% • Renter household growth among every school district from 2010 to 2018 • Burgeoning employment base with 33 major employers of 100 or more employees • Williams County is 3.9 percentage points behind the region in terms of offering housing product built since 2000 and 4.8 percentage points ahead in housing built prior to 1940. • Available for-sale housing properties not keeping up with demand
Site Ohio Authentication Program In 2018, Bryan North Industrial Park received site authentication through the JobsOhio SiteOhio program.
Northwest Ohio Manufacturing Day Featuring the Northwest Ohio Automotive Industry - October 12, 2018 Thank you for your support! 20/20 Custom Molded Plastics Powers & Sons Allied Moulded Sauder Manufacturing Altenloh Brinck & Co. Spangler Candy Busche Performance Group Winzeler Stamping Chase Brass and Copper Yanfeng CK Technologies Rassini Kamco Matsu Ohio
Northwest Ohio Manufacturing Day Save the Date: October 4, 2019 is Manufacturing Day
2018 Major Project Announcements 137 196 $275,000 $42M* 20/20 Custom Molded Jobs Created Jobs Retained JobsOhio Economic Investment Plastics Development Grant 20 170 $50,000 $7.7M Reifel Industries Jobs Created Jobs Retained JobsOhio Training Grant Investment 30 1063 $150,000 $15M Menards Distribution Jobs Created Jobs Retained JobsOhio Economic Investment Center Development Grant 1 st 125 $900,000 $17.6M Busche Performance Jobs Created Busche facility to open JobsOhio Revitalization Grant Investment Group in Ohio 11 15,000 sq. ft. addition $4M $60,000 Bard Manufacturing Jobs Created Average salary for new Investment HVAC Innovation & Design Center engineering/technical jobs 23 $25,000 $21M Cooper Farms Jobs Created ODOT Grant Investment 60 $500,000 $12.1 Love’s Travel Stop Jobs Created CDBG via MVPO Investment Over 400 New Jobs Created $119.4M Invested
Looking ahead… Business to School Connections Survey • This survey is for all employers in the Williams County, Ohio area. Releas elease e Da Date: A te: April 1, 20 pril 1, 2019 19 • Survey results will be shared directly with all schools in Williams County and will be available on www.wedco.info. • The goal: to initiate further collaboration between businesses and schools and improve efficiency in creating workforce and career development programming. • This survey will generate a list of contacts and scope of engagement interests from area businesses; in turn schools will have the necessary information to make a connection when needed. • 4 minutes or less to complete the survey!
2018 Tier 1 WEDCO Members
2018 Tier 2 WEDCO Members • 20/20 Custom Molded Plastics • Ohio Gas Company • Bard Manufacturing • Powers & Sons • Cooper Farms • Rassini Chassis Systems • Decorative Paint, Inc. • Reifel Industries • Huntington Bank • Rudolph Libbe, Inc • Kamco • Saneholtz McKarns, Inc. • Miller Bros Construction Inc • Sauder Manufacturing • North Star BlueScope Steel • The State Bank and Trust Company • North Western Electric Co Op • Winzeler Stamping Company
2018 Tier 3 WEDCO Members • Advanced Rehabilitation Technology • L.E. Smith • Bestway Motor Lines • One Energy • Busche Performance Group • Pahl Ready Mix, Inc. • CK Technologies • Pioneer Industrial Systems • Daavlin • Rupp Enterprises • Farmers & Merchants State Bank • Trinity Specialty Compounding • Unique Chardan, Inc
2018 Tier 4 WEDCO Members • • Allied Moulded Products Meyers Bros. Trucking LLC Associate Members • • Andres O'Neil & Lowe Agency Mosser Construction • Bryan Chamber of Commerce • • Bryan Metals Newcomer, Shaffer, Spangler & Breininger • Drs. Behringer and Eckhardt • • Conversion Technologies International Northwest State Community College • Gallagher & Rohrs, Ltd. • • Current Office Solutions Peters Family Eyecare • Isaac Property Company • • Current TEK Solutions Professional Polymer Consulting • Montpelier Chamber of Commerce • • Dongan Transformers PTC Enterprises • NASG/A Stamp Industries • • Dyco Manufacturing Stryker Welding • Pioneer Chamber of Commerce • • Edgerton Forge Sudden Service Expediting • Siebenaler Construction • • Elwood Staffing Titan Tire • Signature Associates • • First Federal Bank Travis Gilcher • The Bryan Times • • Kidston Family Companies Universal Industrial Products • Trilogy Wealth Advisors • • Mannik & Smith Group VRT • • Matcor-Matsu Waterford Bank
WEDCO Board of Directors City of Bryan – Carrie Schlade, Mari Ivan Village of Edgerton – Zachary Dohner Executive Board (serving 2018-2020) Village of Edon – Chad Ordway, Dave Loughborough Village of Holiday City – Gary Baker, Sean Rupp Past President – Dan Clum, Williams County Village of Montpelier – Jeanette Hull, Jason Rockey President – Kevin Maynard, BMU Village of Pioneer – Al Fiser, Katie Wells 1st Vice President – Beth Rediger, Village of Stryker Village of Stryker – Patsy Mealer, Beth Rediger 2nd Vice President – Katie Wells, Village of Pioneer Village of West Unity – Bryan Barshel, Joshua Fritsch Williams County – Dan Clum, Lew Hilkert Secretary – Josh Fritsch, Village of West Unity Williams Co. Labor – Al LaCombe Slated to fill the vacancy of Treasurer – Lew Hilkert First Energy – Tim Suter Bryan Municipal Utilities – Kevin Maynard Ohio Gas – Cinthia Reed North Western Electric Co-Op – Darin Thorp
WEDCO Membership & Organizational Structure 71 23
Congratulations to all 2019 award nominees!
Business of the Year Nominee • In 2018 20/20 announced it was adding a 6,600-ton Milacron press at its Ohio plant. The “20/20 is very involved in the machine features a 200-pound shot. During NPE2018 in Orlando, Ernsberger noted the community and believes in press is among the largest in the industry and the largest produced by Milacron. giving back… Chad Adams, • 20/20 has committed to creating over 130 new jobs over the next 3 years. COO volunteers as the • Invested over $40M into the Holiday City facility in recent years and the project will be Treasurer and is chair of the running at full capacity in 2020. Finance Committee for the • The expansion project included the addition of 425,000 square feet of manufacturing and UWWC. The passion they warehouse space. have for our community is easily seen through Chad and other employees who volunteer and support UWWC.”
Business of the Year Nominee • In 2018 Spangler Candy acquired the Sweethearts and Necco brands and purchased a 20-acre New Era campus. • Spangler plans to renovate the campus, providing more room for warehouse space and future expansion. • Collaborative efforts with Bryan City Schools makes it clear Spangler Candy is invested in not only the community, but in the future. • Spangler Candy has continued to add employee benefits beyond the expected and shows true commitment to the community and workforce.
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