Submitted by Ed Hauser on Mon, 06/05/2006 - 15:31.
06/09/2006 - 09:30
06/09/2006 - 14:00
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The Northeast Ohio Area Coordination Agency's (NOACA) 7th Annual Summit, "Exploring Our Region's Potential," will be held Friday, June 9, 2006. The Summit will focus on transportation, economic development, and air and water quality issues in Northeast Ohio. Lee Fisher (D) and Representative Tom Raga (R), candidates for lieutenant governor, will present their plans for economic development in Ohio and the region. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The Summit begins at 9:30 a.m. and runs to about 2 p.m. Luncheon Speaker
Gordon Proctor, Director, Ohio Department of Transportation will discuss future funding of transportation projects and the Cleveland Innerbelt project
Featured Speakers
Shara Davis, Project Director, Voices and Choices will reveal what more than 10,000 individuals from Northeast Ohio said about the future of the region and the challenges we must overcome.
Ed Morrison, Partner, in the Institute for Open Economic Networks, will speak on open source conomic development and the proposed economic development plan for Cuyahoga County.
Paul Tait, Executive Director, of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, will talk about his experience developing ties between transportation and econmic development and involving private interests