North Carolina is America’s Military Base

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Annual Community Meeting
National Anthem Mr.
John Bellamy Invocation
Reverend Skip Lloyd Minister of Education
Snyder Memorial Baptist Church
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BRAC RTF

• Welcome Introductions
• Paul Dordal, Brigadier General, USAF (Ret)
• Executive Director

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BRAC RTF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Bladen Greg Taylor, Delane Jackson
• Cumberland Breeden Blackwell, Tony Chavonne
  (Vice Chair)
• Harnett Tim McNeill (Chair), Tommy Burns
• Hoke Jean Powell, Mike Wood
• Lee Ed Paschal, Cornelia Olive
• Montgomery Lance Metzler, Judy Stevens
• Moore Cary McSwain, Reagan Parsons
• Richmond Kenneth Robinette, Daniel Kelly
• Robeson Ken Windley, Jr., Blake Proctor
• Sampson John Blanton, Roland Hall
• Scotland Leon Butler, Tom Parker

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Regional Growth

• BRAC IS ON TRACK, BUT A LOT MORE PREPARATION IS
  NEEDED
• Ft. Bragg is growing to more than 73,000 soldiers
  employees.
• Direct impact is over 25,500 active duty
  military, spouses, civilians and on post
  contractors moving to region
• Regional Population Growth
• Projecting 40,000 additional people by 2013
• FORSCOM/USARC Contract Awarded to Hensel Phelps

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• U.S. Army Forces Command and Army Reserve Command
  Headquarters transfer from Atlanta in 2011.

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BRAC RTF GOALS

• Develop long term Regional Planning to improve
  quality of life and ensure planned growth
• Establish Community Partnership with Ft. Bragg
  for long term sustainability and support
• Educate and Retrain the Workforce to meet the
  needs of Ft. Bragg and emerging industries
• Transform the Regional Economy based on the
  growth at Ft. Bragg as the catalyst to attract
  defense related companies and new growth

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Comprehensive Regional Growth Plan

• Economic Impact by 2013
• 19,200 jobs will move here or be created as a
  result of growth at Fort Bragg, 11,400 off post
• Gross Regional Product increased by 1.11 Billion
  
• Personal disposable income increased by 1.27
  Billion

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Regional Approach is Working!

• All American Defense Corridor recognized
  nationwide
• A regional network has been established for
  planning, coordination and educational programs
• BRAC RTF presented national award for 2008 Active
  Base Community of the Year from ADC
• Investment in regional secondary education
  through MCNC Gates Foundation proposal
• Kenan Fellows program expansion under
  consideration
• Region is attracting defense related companies

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Remarks

• Tim McNeill

Chairman of the BRAC RTF
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Senator Tony Rand NC Senate Majority Leader
Keynote Speaker

• Representing North Carolinas 19th District

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Congressman Bob Etheridge
Remarks

• Representing North Carolinas 2nd District

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Congressman Robin Hayes
Remarks

• Representing North Carolinas 8th District

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Remarks
Mr. David Larson Deputy Director, DOD Office
of Economic Adjustment
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Mr. Gil Gilleland U.S. Army Forces Command
Deputy G-1
Fort McPherson, GA
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Remarks
Colonel David Fox Fort Bragg Garrison Commander
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Colonel John McDonaldCommander, 43rd Airlift
Wing Pope AFB
Remarks
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Colonel Merle Hart Commander, 440th Reserve
Airlift Wing Pope AFB
Remarks
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2009 The Way Forward Balancing the Mission,
Community, Environment, and Economic Development
Regional Planning
Don Belk, AICP
BRAC RTF Regional Planner
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BRAC RTFThe Way Forward
The Comprehensive Regional Growth Plan

• Describes current conditions, projects future
  needs, identifies major capacity gaps, and
  recommends actions to fill those gaps
• Identifies functional areas that require
  additional or more detailed assessments
• Creates a regional network and information
  sharing process
• Conduct additional planning as necessary, then
  implement action items

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BRAC RTFThe Way Forward
Regional Planning Initiatives

• Regional Agriculture Sustainability Program
  (RASP)
• Working Lands Protection Program

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BRAC RTFThe Way Forward
A Strategy for Sustainable Development

• Integrate and coordinate regional planning and
  sustainability efforts support compatible land
  use
• Support regional transportation planning,
  including mass transit
• Link urban sustainability, rural economic
  development, and installation needs

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Community Impact Assessments
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Comprehensive Regional Growth Plan
Wayne Freeman, CEO

• Training and Development Associates, Inc. (TDA)

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The Result
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The CRGP Results

• Comprehensive and detailed assessment of impacts
  at the regional and county levels
• Recommended actions that detail important next
  steps
• Plan includes
• Executive Summary
• Ten Regional Chapters
• Seven County-Specific Chapters (Tier I)
• Access to the Plan (as of November 7th)
• Download from www.bracrtf.com
• Request a CD online at www.bracrtf.com

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The Team of Experts

• TDA, Inc.
• Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (Workforce)
• Developmental Associates, LLP (Public Safety)
• ERISS Corporation (Workforce)
• The e-NC Authority (Information Communication
  Technologies)
• Health Planning Source, Inc (Health Care)
• Hobbs, Upchurch Associates (Water and
  Wastewater)
• Kathi Beratan, PhD and James Helgeson, PhD
  (Editors)
• Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise,
  UNC-Chapel Hill (Air Travel)
• ICF International (Economic Modeling
  Transportation)
• Martin/Alexiou/Bryson, PLLC (Transportation)
• OR/Ed. Lab, NC State University (Education K-12)
• PKF Consulting (Hospitality and Cultural
  Resources)
• Richardson Smith Gardner Associates (Solid
  Waste)

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The Working Groups

• Education (K-12)
• Housing
• Workforce and Higher Education
• Social Services and Child Care
• Transportation
• Information Communication Technologies
• Public Safety and Emergency Services
• Water, Wastewater, and Solid Waste
• Hospitality, Parks Recreation, Cultural
  Activities
• Health Care
• Regional Planning

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The Way Forward

• The Plan is the roadmap that can direct
  resources to prepare for military growth
• 25 recommended actions in 10 impact categories
  provide prioritized steps
• Continued collaboration will result in a sum
  greater than our individual efforts could
  accomplish
• Time to implement!

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Education

• Impact
• - Shortfall of classrooms and schools
• - Increase in admin and operating costs
• Actions
• 1) Identify short-term strategies to accommodate
  increased enrollment
• 2) Identify alternative funding strategies for
  public and private financing

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Health Care

• Impact
• - Expanded behavioral and mental health care
  services needed
• - Region needs at least 63 additional surgeons
  and 133 new dentists
• - More TRICARE providers needed
• Actions
• 3) Organize health network council find
  solutions for increasing
• behavioral and mental health care in the Fort
  Bragg region
• 4) Create action plan to find, attract, hire and
  retain new surgeons and dentists

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Transportation

• Impact
• Roadways Fort Bragg access gates and travel
  corridors will be heavily affected by increased
  traffic
• Aviation Daily air service from Fayetteville
  to Washington DC needed
• Military Rail Increased demand for shipment of
  military freight from Fort Bragg to NC Ports
• Actions
• 5) Roadways Assist with planning and
  supporting funding and for critical Murchison
  Road project

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Transportation

• Actions
• 6) Roadways Create travel simulation model to
  measure effects of NCDOT road projects on travel
  to and from Fort Bragg linking to Cumberland,
  Hoke, Moore, and Harnett Counties
• 7) Aviation assess current and emerging
  mission-related local and regional aviation
  demands assess alternative air travel such as
  charters, air taxis, subsidized flights
• 8) Military Freight Rail Prepare comprehensive
  military freight rail service feasibility study

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Transportation

• Actions
• 9) Mass Transit and Parking collaborate with
  regional transportation partners to develop a
  multi-modal transportation plan
• 10) Roadways Educate/inform regional public
  policy decision makers on BRAC-related TIP
  projects
• 11) Rail Support expansion of passenger rail
  service connecting the Fort Bragg region with
  destinations outside the region

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Water, Wastewater, and Solid Waste

• Impact
• - Potential 3.24 MGD increase in water needs not
  taken into account under current Cape Fear River
  Basin Plan
• - Concerns about private well contamination and
  failing septic systems
• - Aging wastewater infrastructure
• Actions
• 12) Prepare regional master plan for Water,
  Wastewater, and Water Supply
• 13) Study feasibility of regional solid waste
  authority

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Housing

• Impact
• - Arrival of new military personnel expected to
  reduce inventories of existing and newly
  constructed homes
• - Affordable rental housing will be in short
  supply as market tightens
• - Niche markets may experience growth
• Actions
• 21) Identify specific residential growth areas
  and the market segments where new housing demand
  exists

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Public Safety and Emergency Services

• Impact
• - Need for increased vigilance and attention to
  the safety of citizens and emergency response to
  a terrorist attack
• - Coordinated community response is required
• Actions
• 22) Ensure funding for VIPER system for secure
  and reliable network for regional emergency
  response

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Information and Communication Technology

• Impact
• - Demand for ICT capability will increase on- and
  off-post
• - Economic growth could be hampered by lack of
  access
• Actions
• 23) Assess communications and information
  technology requirements to serve Fort Bragg,
  local communities, and the regions defense and
  homeland security industry

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Social Services and Child Care

• Impact
• Services already stretched thin will be severely
  compromised by population growth, returning
  military from deployments
• Actions
• 24) Convene a region-wide social services working
  group to develop Implementation strategy to
  prioritize regional needs and identify funding
  sources

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Hospitality

• Impact
• Projected demand of 120,000 additional hotel room
  nights current supply of hotels inadequate to
  meet FORSCOM requirements
• Actions
• 25) Identify appropriate existing or planned
  meeting facilities suitable to the needs of
  FORSCOM, both on and off-post assess security
  requirements

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Regional Planning, Compatible Land Use and
Sustainable Development

• Impact
• - Population increase due to mission growth will
  impact availability, use of developable land
• - Mission-critical areas identified in JLUS are
  threatened without coordinated, regional planning
  approach
• - Regional planning will help maximize
  infrastructure capacity, minimize capital
  expenses, lead toward resilient and sustainable
  communities
• Actions
• 14) Develop coordinated, regional growth
  management strategy
• 15) Assess potential impact from planned and
  future developments

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Regional Planning, Compatible Land Use and
Sustainable Development

• Actions
• 16) Prepare new geospatial datasets for the
  regions geographic information system (GIS)
  database
• 17) Prepare concept plan, project scope for a
  School-Centered Community, including
  recommendations for developing a public-private
  partnership and financing strategies
• 18) Evaluate planning process to provide model
  for other BRAC-growth communities
• 19) Develop integrated infrastructure plan to tie
  normal and mission growth to future land use
  recommendations
• 20) Assess the requirements for Fort Bragg and
  local communities to achieve energy
  self-sufficiency including alternative and
  renewable sources

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Regional Planning and Sustainability

• Initiative to realign the BRAC RTF regional
  planning functions with Sustainable Sandhills
• Combines and integrates staffs for more effective
  and unified planning for our region
• Ensures the long term sustainability of Fort
  Bragg balanced with the community development
  needs and the environment
• Jon Parsons Executive Director of Sustainable
  Sandhills and Director of Regional Planning and
  Sustainability for the BRAC RTF

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Sustainable Sandhills

• Key Partners - Sustainable Fort Bragg, NCDENR,
  NC Sandhills Conservation Partnership,
  USEPA
• Five Original Teams in 2003
• Air Quality (Transportation)
• Energy (Housing, Schools)
• Water Resources (Water/Wastewater)
• Materials Use Waste (Solid Waste)
• Land Use (Regional Planning)

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Sustainable Sandhills

• Six Current Programs (2008)
• Air Quality
• Green Building Design
• Green Business Certification
• Solid Waste Reduction
• Sustainability Education Awareness
• Regional Planning

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Workforce Transformation
Workforce Demonstration Program Educating and
retraining the workforce to meet the needs of
Fort Bragg and emerging industries
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Workforce Demonstration Program

• Program Goals
• Develop the skilled talent for the regions
  targeted high growth, high skill, and high wage
  industries
• Strengthen collaboration between the regions
  education and training institutions
• Enhance the regions entrepreneurial climate to
  create and expand business, and generate new high
  growth, high skill, and high wage employment
  opportunities

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Workforce Demonstration Program

• Educational Programs
• Dr. Jane Smith
• Program Manager for Education

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Educational Programs

• Program Goals
• Build leadership and STEM programs
• Increase graduation rate
• Decrease dropout rate
• Strengthen collaborations across the educational
  continuum to address workforce development

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Current Education Initiatives
Additional information available at
www.bracrtf.com/education.php
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New Education Initiatives
The Way Forward
Additional information available at
www.bracrtf.com/education.php
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New Education Initiatives
The Way Forward

• Kenan Fellows Program
• Guest program presentation by
• Valerie B. Brown-Schild, Ph.D.
• Director, Kenan Fellows Program
• Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology
  Science

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• Tim Moore
• Program Manager
  for
  Workforce and Economic Development

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Workforce Demonstration Program

• July 2007
• Awarded 5 million U.S. Department of Labor grant
  for three-year pilot workforce development
  program
• Integrates workforce development, economic
  development and education at the regional level
• Leverages the Regional Planning grant from OEA

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Workforce Demonstration Program

• October 2007
• Established partnership with FTCC
• FTCC will serve as host for the hub for the
  All American Center for
  Workforce Innovation
• February 2008
• Launched the Wounded Warrior Pipeline
• Pilot workforce demonstration platform to assess
  the skills and interests of Wounded Warriors at
  Ft Bragg and connect them to high wage/high skill
  jobs

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Workforce Demonstration Program

• February 2008
• Launched Job Connection Initiative for
  Construction Cluster
• Comprised of industry, WDBs, ESC, education
  providers, NCMBC, NC DOL, Fort Bragg ACAP
  ACS/ERP
• Working with construction contractors for placing
  local workers on Fort Bragg and other regional
  projects

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Workforce Demonstration Program

• May 2008
• Established the All American Center for Workforce
  Innovation and Advanced Visualization and
  Interactive Digital Center at FTCCs Virtual
  College Center
• Focus is on the creation of high skill/ high tech
  jobs and related skills development
• September 2008
• Expanded the AACWI hub at FTCC through the
  installation of an i3D-capable portable theater
  system in seven additional regional community
  colleges

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Workforce Demonstration Program

• October 2008
• Awarded contract to conduct regional asset
  mapping and gap analysis of current and emerging
  Defense and Homeland Security industries in the
  All American Defense Corridor to the team of
• TDA
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Center for Economic Competitiveness
• UNC School of Government
• Futures Inc.

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Workforce Demonstration Program The Way
Forward

• Next Steps
• Complete the resource mapping and gap analysis on
  emerging defense and homeland security clusters
• Release an RFP for development of the Career
  Exploration and Job Connection Pipeline
• Expand i3D capability to our public and private
  universities and to all high schools and middle
  schools in BRAC RTF region
• Partner with FSU and UNC-P to study the economic
  impact on minority and other populations

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2009 The Way Forward

• Closing Remarks
• Transforming our Region through
• Collaboration and Innovation

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2009 The Way Forward

• Economic Transformation
• Established the All American Defense Corridor to
  attract emerging defense and homeland security
  industries to the region
• Institutionalized the Defense Business
  Association
• Resource mapping, assessment and gap analysis of
  a defense industry cluster tied to workforce
  development
• Proposal for a NC Center for Defense Innovation

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2009 - The Way Forward

• Continued emphasis on
• Integrated and unified Regional Planning
  Sustainability
• Training a skilled workforce and connecting
  people to jobs
• Educational Programs to motivate students and
  reduce dropout rates

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2009 - The Way Forward

• Vision
• Establish an RTP for Defense in the Fort Bragg
  region
• Become North Carolinas Center for Defense
  Homeland Security

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All American Defense Corridor DVD
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BRAC RTF Contact Info

• Executive Director Paul Dordal
  pdordal_at_bracrtf.com
• Deputy Director John Harbison
  jharbison_at_bracrtf.com
• Regional Planner Don Belk
  dbelk_at_bracrtf.com
• Program Manager for Education Dr. Jane Smith
  jsmith_at_bracrtf.com
• Program Manager for Workforce Tim Moore
  tmoore_at_bracrtf.com
• Communications Outreach Coord Renee Lane
  rlane_at_bracrtf.com
• Executive Assistant John Bellamy
  jbellamy_at_bracrtf.com
• Administrative Assistant Renee Siemiet
  rsiemiet_at_bracrtf.com
• 910-436-1344 Website www.bracrtf.com
• Offices are located on Fort Bragg