Feb 15, 2022 | Jackson County News & Info
Alexus Morris, senior at SHS, was chosen as the winner of the 11th annual Jackson County Maverick Challenge and was presented with a $2,000 check by county program sponsors Jackson County Industrial Development Corp, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, Brownstown Ewing Main Street and funding sponsors JCBank and JCIDC Workforce Partnership. Alexus’s business plan focused on the need for a translation service to assist communication between businesses and their customers. County high school students submitted written plans and local business professionals chose 10 plans to be presented in person. A total of $7,400 was split between the finalists after the presentations.
Pictured below are all of the Maverick Challenge winners at the awards presentation:
Source: The Tribune, February 15, 2022
Feb 9, 2022 | Jackson County News & Info
MICROPOLITANS…Every year, the POLICOM Corporation tracks growth in metropolitan and micropolitan areas…an area less than 50,000 but more than 10,000 is a micropolitan…there are 26 micros in Indiana and 543 across the U.S. In 2021 for the 6th straight year, Seymour ranked in the top 100 in the United States for economic strength at 83rd, and earlier this month the 2022 rankings were released…Seymour is now just outside the top 10% in the country with a ranking of 56th. Seymour also ranked No. 1 in population growth among Indiana’s micropolitans.
Twenty-three economic factors are taken into consideration over a 20-year period to gauge improvement and current ranking.
Jan 13, 2022 | Jackson County News & Info
The Seymour City Council approved a $654,000 tax abatement for the purchase of equipment by RR Donnelley, a commercial printing company that has been doing business at Seymour’s Freeman Field Industrial Park for three decades.
The 10-year tax abatement will allow the company to buy new manufacturing and information technology equipment.
The company, located at 709 A Avenue East, currently has a workforce of 111 with $4,115,369 in salaries.
In 2019, RR Donnelley received a $3.4 million tax abatement for new equipment. Around the same time, the company was given a $114 million contract from the U.S. Government Publishing Office to produce materials for the 2020 Census.
Founded in 1864, the company provides marketing and business communications, commercial printing and related services, and 200 locations in 28 countries and 33,000 employees.
Dec 15, 2021 | Jackson County News & Info
The South Central Indiana Talent Region, which includes Jackson County, has been awarded a $30 million READI grant by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC).
On Tuesday, Dec. 14, the IEDC board of directors and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced the award during a meeting at Butler University in Indianapolis.
READI (Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative) was introduced earlier this year and funded with $500 million in state appropriations to promote strategic investments that will make Indiana a magnet for talent and economic growth.
On Dec. 3rd, the South Central Indiana Talent Region, which also includes Jennings and Bartholomew counties as well as the Town of Edinburgh, made its presentation in Speedway.
The South Central group had applied for $49.5 million from the READI program which would ultimately total $378.6 million when public and private dollars were added. Of that, Jackson County’s projects totaled $7.4 million and included workforce development/training, infrastructure, housing, medical and destination projects. In addition, there are five tri-county projects that are designed for possible use by developers and other entities in all counties.
With the announcement from the IEDC, the region steering committee will begin meeting in January to bring the projects within the $30 million limit.
READI hopes to attract at least $2 billion of local public, private and philanthropic match funding that will propel investment in Indiana’s quality of place, quality of life and quality of opportunity.
Source: Jackson County Industrial Dev. Corp.
Dec 15, 2021 | Jackson County News & Info
Jackson County has become the 53rd community to achieve the designation of “Broadband Ready Community”.
“Thanks in large part to Jackson County REMC, we feel as thought Jackson County is at the forefront of the rural high-speed broadband initiative. We are excited to take yet another step forward in this initiative by obtaining the “Broadband Ready Community,” said Jackson County Board of Commissioners President Matt Reedy.
The program, which is administered by the Indiana Broadband office through the Indiana Office of Rural and Community Affairs, was created as a tool to encourage broadband development throughout Indiana. OCRA says the certification sends a signal to the telecommunication industry that a community has taken steps to reduce barriers to broadband infrastructure investment.
Source: Jackson County Industrial Development Corporation
