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The 2010 Business Boot Camp is Sept. 15 -17.
Business Boot Camp helps entrepreneurs Billed as a crash course for success, the Business Boot Camp, a two-and-a-half day seminar designed to offer cutting-edge business strategies, practical insights, and world-class training to help business owners build and sustain their businesses, was held last fall. This event was put on by the Entrepreneur Alliance, an entity comprised of eleven resource organizations in Amarillo, Borger, Dumas, Pampa, and Perryton that have joined forces to help promote entrepreneurial activity. The Planning Commission is one of the Alliance Partners. With a mission designed to strengthen and grow the Texas Panhandle economy by promoting and facilitating entrepreneurial activity, the Entrepreneur Alliance is helping men and women throughout the region succeed in maintaining and
building their businesses. “It’s important that we provide a front door to entrepreneurs in this region, giving them the needed resources to help them get their new companies off the ground, as well as succeed once they are up and running,” said Doug Nelson, the PRPC Economic Development Director.
“Together the alliance partners, along with various funding sponsors, help to underwrite the Business Boot Camp. “As an Entrepreneur Alliance Partner, our participation in this exceptional training opportunity for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs is very exciting,” said Nelson. “We expect this annual event to give our regions small businesses a greater opportunity for success.” Nelson served as a panelist on the Financing Your Business session, one of 15 educational seminars held for participants. If you missed the 2009 Business Boot Camp, mark your calendars for this year’s Sept. 15 – 17, 2010 event. For more information, contact Doug Nelson at dnelson@theprpc.org or visit www.getyourdream.org.
Understanding GMAs & DFCs (Continued from page 7)
Groundwater Management Areas (GMA) – were defined by the Texas Water Development Board in 2001. In these GMAs groundwater districts are required to work together to set a DFC for each aquifer. Desired Future Condition (DFC) – is a quantifiable future groundwater condition. Groundwater districts try to look ahead to set a desired amount of water left for the aquifers in their district. DFCs help to set management goals and give an indication of what we want the aquifer to look like in the future. After a DFC is set for a GMA, management plans and rules for implementation are required by each district to ensure the goals that have been set are achieved. GMA 1 covers 18 counties in the Texas Panhandle and has set a DFC for the Ogallala aquifer and the Rita Blanca aquifer. GMA 1 is made up of Panhandle Groundwater Conservation
District, Hemphill County Underground Water Conservation District, part of High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, and North Plains Groundwater Conservation District.
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For more information about GMAs, DFCs, the process that created them, and their guidelines please visit http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/GwRD/GMA/ gmahome.htm.