Dwight D. Vines Economic Development Officer Office: 318-329-2250 400 Lea Joyner Expressway Monroe, LA 71201

Mission: To spearhead Monroe’s sustainable economic development efforts. The focus of this job is to develop, manage, and implement programs that: • Link businesses with resources to help them find qualified employees, locate appropriate facilities or site locations, develop products and processes, or identify emerging markets • Facilitate businesses securing the benefits of Federal, State, and Local economic development incentives • Encourage businesses to move to or expand in Monroe Stone Bridge Lifestyle Center

Economic Development Office’s (EDO) Prioritized Strategy

To accomplish EDO’s mission, we will follow a prioritized strategy of RSDA:

1. Retain - our first priority is to retain viable businesses in Monroe

2. Sustain - we will work to link existing and emerging resources to help local business sustain their efforts

3. Develop - through our administration of programs and securing of additional resources, we will play an integral role in developing local business to provide more jobs plus better paying jobs….and

4. Attract - when and where appropriate, we will pursue opportunities to recruit new business into our community that are a logical fit with our existing core businesses.