(Community Matters) In a conversation this morning, a small business owner in Austin was talking about how important it is to her businesses that we keep Austin vital and energized by recruiting large employers to our community.
It isn’t an either or proposition – small, middle and large businesses are part of the eco system of healthy communities. Regrettably, the 30k plus semiconductor manufacturing trained employees felt this all too well as their employers scaled down and they looked for jobs to feed their families, make their mortgages and contribute to our communities. We MUST continue to recruit major employers.
I regret that Lee Leffingwell doesn’t understand this, or so his reported comment at the Better Austin Today Forum about not recruiting big companies to Austin instead focusing on local companies, would seem to suggest. It’s not either or. I’m surprised and disappointed if Lee doesn’t get this.
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