Page 6 January 2012 This month’s report from Councilman Sal DiCiccio Councilman Tom Simplot and I will be co-chairmen on a committee for job creation by cutting the red tape and the cost of doing business in Phoenix. The goal is to prepare our city to compete in the global market and bring back a stabilized work force to our community. Five years ago, the entire world economy changed. Things now move faster, have more risk and are less secure. Organizations succeed in this new economy by getting their products to market fi rst and by running their operations at strategic speed. Business cycles that were once 11 to 15 years are now four to six years. For Phoenix to prosper in this new climate, we must understand and adapt to these new changes. These are surely tough times. We must be better prepared to deal with this new economy. We must create bold new models that allow us to take advantage of these changes. Our mayor and council have put together a large group of talented business leaders who will put a microscope to how we treat job creation/retention and come up with bold, modern ways to streamline our operations to signi fi cantly reduce the cost of doing business in Phoenix. We can no longer accept being better. We can no longer accept being one of the best. We must be known as the best place in the nation in which to do business. The focus will be on same-day permitting - being able to walk right up to the counter and get a permit that very same day. Or, better yet, pushing a button in your own of fi ce to send a set of plans to our city and instantaneously getting a permit. A complicated and expensive process that currently takes weeks and often months to maneuver will now be completed in a matter of minutes. What does this do to our economy? Instead of taking months to create jobs, it puts job creation in hyper drive allowing business to start up and to hire today. It will signi fi cantly encourage more entrants willing and able to take a risk opening a new business, creating jobs and sales-tax revenue today, while returning stability to our budget and restoring cuts made to our seniors and kids and to our libraries. Think of the message we will send to companies around the country and the globe: Phoenix has gone beyond cutting red tape to eliminating it. Corporate relocations, from manufacturing plants to data centers, are being decided on fi nancial risk, on whether they can get their products to market quickly and the overall business climate of their new home. Potential small business owners facing thousands of dollars in fees and multiple other added costs associated with delays will now be more capable of assuming less risk to open that coffee or yogurt shop in that vacant space at your neighborhood center. The hurdles of designing the best job creation model in the nation are signi fi cant. But the end result for our city will be even more signi fi cant, and much better for businesses, taxpayers and the city’s fi scal future. Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio represents District 6, which includes Ahwatukee, Arcadia, Biltmore, East Camelback and North Central. He can be reached at council.district.6@ phoenix.gov or 602-262-7491. F E A T U R E D B U I L D E R A R C A D I A H O M E SRJ SRJ - NEW Year to start your NEW project - Call Scott. Scott R. Jung, General Contractor LICENSED • BONDED • INSURED ROC# 163087 602-224-9899 • 3605 N. 44th St. www.SRJConstructionandDesign.com SRJbuildsit@cox.net NEW ADDITIONS NEW REMODELS • A Spanish Immersion preschool program for children ages 2 to 5 • High quality early childhood education with low student to teacher ratios • Center-based curriculum includes language, art, music, science, math and world culture. OPEN ENROLLMENT Learn more about Summer and Fall 2012 Registration Little Big Minds Spanish Immersion Preschool Phone: 602.910.4417 • 4601 N. 34th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85018 We are located on the Biltmore Preparatory Academy Campus www.littlebigmindspreschool.com Give your kids the gift of early childhood bilingualism 90% of alumni respondents rate their overall satisfaction with All Saints’ as “high” or “very high.” – Independent Alumni Survey, 2011 ";L:8K@E> ?@C;I<E%<8;KF0FLC All Faiths Welcome • Pre-K through Eighth Grade • Financial Aid Available 6300 North Central Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85012 602.274.4866 www.aseds.org Visit our Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/PhoenixASEDS Please join us for an Open House on Thursday, January 19 at 9:00 a.m. R.S.V.P. to 602.274.4866, ext. 220

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