As half of the Better Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tallahassee Business Podcast, offered by 223 Company, options conversations with a spread of company who can share precious perception to assist our members on this attempting time.
This week, we’re joined by Cristina Paredes – Director of the Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality. Cristina has been serving our group by means of numerous roles in native authorities since attending Florida State College and incomes a Grasp’s in Public Administration. Her profession consists of staffing the Leon County Gross sales Tax Committee which formed the profitable passage of the Blueprint 2020 referendum. As half of that gross sales tax funding, the Office of Economic Vitality was based to be the official financial growth entity for Tallahassee and Leon County. Since turning into Director, Paredes has helped reshape native enterprise recruitment and retention efforts by means of a pointy give attention to focused industries, minority and ladies enterprise growth, and expansive use of information. In latest months, her workforce has helped to present grants to native companies affected by the results of the COVID-19 pandemic and are actually working to information our group by means of a plan to reopen the economic system. On this episode, Cristina shares precious insights on the work that is taking place to make our group Florida’s capital for enterprise.
For extra data on the Office of Economic Improvement and necessary native enterprise assets please go to www.oevforbusiness.com.
