Liberty County Input
Economic Development (private business)
- New Main Street businesses (restaurant, motel, tire repair services)
- Access to affordable business financing
- Industrial parking
Employment
- Improved infrastructure to capture and sell wind energy
- More housing and more affordable housing to attract new residents
- Caught in a spiral: “Business owners say no reliable help, no employees; citizens say no jobs available.”
Health
- Slow Medicare payments/cutbacks are forcing local hospital to “eat” costs
- Limit liability to reduce cost of insurance
- Local training for health care professionals
- Bring chiropractor back to town
Housing
- Seek financing for demolition of “eyesore” housing
- Seek financial group to invest in new housing
- Create more affordable low-income housing
Infrastructure
- Prepare for the expansion of Bakken activity, the coming “boom”
- Hire more police
- Improve the jail
- Improve sewer system
- Build sidewalks
Parks & Recreation
- Pave roads to Lake Elwell
Other Ideas
- Seek ways to keep kids here or bring them back (summertime youth activities, job opportunities)
- Build capacity to care for elders
- Market vacant lots to people from outside the area
- Market slower pace of life to people from outside the area
- Market tourist opportunities (we are in an ideal central location)
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