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Businesses being surveyed By Dan Jensen
6223B-48 Ave., Camrose • Ph. 780-678-2171 Located behind Royal LePage
The Career Assistance Network is conducting a survey of medium-sized businesses (100 or fewer employees). "Camrose is one of the communities in which we are trying to identify recruitment and retention issues at some of the key primary industries," said Career Assistance Network employer recruitment and retention services coordinator Carey Keleman at the Camrose Chamber of Commerce meeting Dec. 7. Data collected by the survey will help the government determine whether there is a need for additional education opportunities, be they at colleges, apprenticeship programs or trade schools. It will also assist with the development of a community-specific resource guide with contact information for agencies and personnel that can help employers and employees address identified skill deficits. "Basically it will help us better prepare for the next economic boom, and provide more resources for employers," stated Keleman. Completed surveys may be returned to Keleman via either fax 403-704-2395 or email once they have been scanned at carey@rdcan. ca.
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Camrose falling behind on building permits By Dan Jensen
Camrose is struggling to hold its own with other communities of similar size in terms of building permit values. A report presented to City council last week by Engineering Services acting general manager Jeremy Enarson showed that Camrose building permits totalled just $24,788,889 at the end of the first ten months of 2011, compared to $165,468,033 for the City of Lloydminster (Alberta/Saskatchewan combined), $114,230,359 for the City of Fort Saskatchewan, and $27,769,912 for the Town of Stony Plain. The overall totals for Camrose were higher than those for the Town of Olds and the City of Wetaskiwin, which had ten month building permit totals of $19,750,300 and $17,937,565 respectively. Residential permits
Camrose residential permits totalled $20,867,056 at the end of October, compared to $42,538,282 for all of last year. Commercial permits totalled $1,207,565 at the end of October, compared to $3,044,433 at the end of 2010, while institutional permits were $671,048 at the end of October, down from $4,616,345 at the end of 2010. The value of industrial permits issued to the end of October was $2,043,220, up from $851,000 at the end of 2010. Residential permits values at the end of October were $12,477,412 for Olds, $20,109,912 for the Town of Stony Plain, $14,939,385 for the City of Wetaskiwin and $67,405,289 for the City of Lloydminster. The residential permit value for Wetaskiwin at the end of 2010 totalled $6,434,597. The value of commercial permits issued to the end of October was $2,512,818 for the Town of Olds, $3,290,000 for the Town of Stony Plain, $1,542,510 for the City of Wetaskiwin, and $16,608,107 for the City of Lloydminster. Dismayed
Councillor John Howard questioned whether Camrose was doing anything wrong to have such low numbers in comparison to other communities, or if it was simply Camrose's year to be down. "I think all of us on council are a l ittle bit nervous about where we are with this whole process," he said, "because in a lot of our budgeting we talk about new growth and there is not a lot of it to celebrate." Councillors were reminded they should not look at commercial, industrial and institutional permits for just one year alone as the numbers can change drastically from year to year depending on the projects that have been initiated.