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ATTACHMENT A WORST THE POSSIBLE OUTCOMES IF WE DON’T’ WORK TOGETHER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WHAT WE DON'T WANT Nothing happens. We do nothing! We do nothing! Nothing happens or things get worse. We keep spending money and energy and don’t move forward. There is no economic development. No answer trend continues. Nothing happens. We develop a terrible reputation in the business relocation world and nothing happens. Nothing changes and we continue to have lots of small, dispersed, unusable, industrial parcels and no consolidated parcels in usable desirable locations, so all the new clean tech and green businesses we want go elsewhere. There is no economic development plan because we cannot work together. We spend all this time but when the decision time comes, we still retreat to our old silos and refuse to agree on a solution. We polarize, set up camps, shout across the abyss and don’t get any economic development plan! . We become a third world community and are constantly squabbling about how to provide everyone’s needs for social services. We don’t do what is necessary to create jobs. There are no jobs. Those who stay in place are an even greater burden on social services and we spiral into a depressed, desolate community. There is a downward spiral of fewer jobs, greater strain on support services, less money for support services, those with money and business leave. We are not developing economic development policy or action and incentives. If we keep wasting our time and don’t reach consensus, the City Manager will submit his proposal and the City Council will make (or not make) a decision. We end up with no land for businesses and industry to develop or grow into. Local business can’t find land to grow and thrive. Not enough land for industrial with net results in lost opportunities, jobs. We will make no provision for the growth and health of our existing businesses and they leave and not a single new business will ever come to town. We don’t have any economic development and our community suffers with low wages and poor health. Wages continue to decline. Low wage jobs prevail. Quality of life can only get you so far. Lower wages for service work proliferates. Development will occur inefficiently, in the most costly way, and fewer jobs will result. We become a community divided by class. Eugene becomes economically gentrified. We fail to be able to offer a variety of job types to future residents and we become a less diverse community and less able to expect our children to stay and find jobs. There will be a widened income gap. Average medium income continues to decline widening the gap with the state. Our income continues to fall below state and nation. Wage slaves are suffering in a low pay toxic job while living on the streets and not providing for their families. Community Resource Group October 12, 2010