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2019 WEDCO Annual Meeting

Tues day, Mar c h 1 2 , 2 0 1 9 W illiams C ounty Veter ans Memor ial 11:00AM - 1:00P M

Keeping Williams County Connected

WEDCO is YOUR Advocate!

Working together with the community, schools, businesses, and local & state governments

WEDCO Involvement

• NORED – Matt Davis, Executive Board Member, Secretary
• OSU Ext. Advisory Board
• Northwest Ohio Rural Broadband Tech Committee
• TID Board
• NWOESC
• RTPO Strategy Committee
• RLF (City of Bryan/Williams County)
• CEDS Steering Committee
• Community Health Improvement Committee
• ECHO (Drug Free Williams County)
• OEDA Members
• JobOhio Network Meetings
• BIPAC
• APA Zoning & Planning Workshop, guest speaker

Williams County Job Fair

Hosted in partnership by OhioMeansJobs & WEDCO

Sponsored by:

2nd Annual Williams County Job Fair October 24, 2019

Sponsored by:

Workforce development continues to be our priority.

2018 Legislative Tour

Opportunity Zone & HUB Zone Event

• Ohio designated 320 low-income census

tracts across the state as Opportunity Zones under the new tax law.

• City of Bryan census tract 9506 received

the opportunity zone designation in 2018.

• This allows investors and companies to

defer paying capital gains taxes on investments in exchange for committing to invest that additional money into Opportunity Zones long-term, for 10 years or more.

Williams County Housing Opportunities Assessment

• Announced during the 2017 Annual

Meeting, WEDCO formed the workforce & marketing subcommittees.

• The WEDCO Workforce & Marketing

subcommittee consists of approximately 10-20 participants from a variety of backgrounds including government, education, manufacturing, health, insurance, finance, and construction.

• In 2018 the first initiative of the

subcommittee was pursuing Williams County Housing Study.

Overview of the process

Williams County Housing Opportunities Assessment

Williams County displays all the tell-tale signs

• f a housing market poised for growth.
• Rental housing vacancies nearly non-existent, below

1%

• Renter household growth among every school district

from 2010 to 2018

• Burgeoning employment base with 33 major

employers of 100 or more employees

• Williams County is 3.9 percentage points behind the

region in terms of offering housing product built since 2000 and 4.8 percentage points ahead in housing built prior to 1940.

• Available for-sale housing properties not keeping up

with demand

Site Ohio Authentication Program

In 2018, Bryan North Industrial Park received site authentication through the JobsOhio SiteOhio program.

Northwest Ohio Manufacturing Day

Featuring the Northwest Ohio Automotive Industry - October 12, 2018

Thank you for your support!

Powers & Sons Sauder Manufacturing Spangler Candy Winzeler Stamping Yanfeng Rassini Matsu Ohio 20/20 Custom Molded Plastics Allied Moulded Altenloh Brinck & Co. Busche Performance Group Chase Brass and Copper CK Technologies Kamco

Northwest Ohio Manufacturing Day

Save the Date: October 4, 2019 is Manufacturing Day

2018 Major Project Announcements

20/20 Custom Molded Plastics 137 196 $275,000 $42M*

Jobs Created Jobs Retained JobsOhio Economic Development Grant Investment

Reifel Industries 20 170 $50,000 $7.7M

Jobs Created Jobs Retained JobsOhio Training Grant Investment

Menards Distribution Center 30 1063 $150,000 $15M

Jobs Created Jobs Retained JobsOhio Economic Development Grant Investment

Busche Performance Group 125 1st $900,000 $17.6M

Jobs Created Busche facility to open in Ohio JobsOhio Revitalization Grant Investment

Bard Manufacturing 11 $60,000 15,000 sq. ft. addition $4M

Jobs Created Average salary for new engineering/technical jobs HVAC Innovation & Design Center Investment

Cooper Farms 23 $25,000 $21M

Jobs Created ODOT Grant Investment

Love’s Travel Stop 60 $500,000 $12.1

Jobs Created CDBG via MVPO Investment

Over 400 New Jobs Created $119.4M Invested

Looking ahead…

Business to School Connections Survey

• This survey is for all employers in the Williams

County, Ohio area.

• Survey results will be shared directly with all

schools in Williams County and will be available on www.wedco.info.

• The goal: to initiate further collaboration

between businesses and schools and improve efficiency in creating workforce and career development programming.

• This survey will generate a list of contacts and

scope of engagement interests from area businesses; in turn schools will have the necessary information to make a connection when needed.

• 4 minutes or less to complete the survey!

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2018 Tier 1 WEDCO Members

2018 Tier 2 WEDCO Members

• 20/20 Custom Molded Plastics
• Bard Manufacturing
• Cooper Farms
• Decorative Paint, Inc.
• Huntington Bank
• Kamco
• Miller Bros Construction Inc
• North Star BlueScope Steel
• North Western Electric Co Op
• Ohio Gas Company
• Powers & Sons
• Rassini Chassis Systems
• Reifel Industries
• Rudolph Libbe, Inc
• Saneholtz McKarns, Inc.
• Sauder Manufacturing
• The State Bank and Trust

Company

• Winzeler Stamping Company

2018 Tier 3 WEDCO Members

• Advanced Rehabilitation Technology
• Bestway Motor Lines
• Busche Performance Group
• CK Technologies
• Daavlin
• Farmers & Merchants State Bank
• L.E. Smith
• One Energy
• Pahl Ready Mix, Inc.
• Pioneer Industrial Systems
• Rupp Enterprises
• Trinity Specialty Compounding
• Unique Chardan, Inc

2018 Tier 4 WEDCO Members

• Allied Moulded Products
• Andres O'Neil & Lowe Agency
• Bryan Metals
• Conversion Technologies International
• Current Office Solutions
• Current TEK Solutions
• Dongan Transformers
• Dyco Manufacturing
• Edgerton Forge
• Elwood Staffing
• First Federal Bank
• Kidston Family Companies
• Mannik & Smith Group
• Matcor-Matsu
• Meyers Bros. Trucking LLC
• Mosser Construction
• Newcomer, Shaffer, Spangler & Breininger
• Northwest State Community College
• Peters Family Eyecare
• Professional Polymer Consulting
• PTC Enterprises
• Stryker Welding
• Sudden Service Expediting
• Titan Tire
• Travis Gilcher
• Universal Industrial Products
• VRT
• Waterford Bank

Associate Members

• Bryan Chamber of Commerce
• Drs. Behringer and Eckhardt
• Gallagher & Rohrs, Ltd.
• Isaac Property Company
• Montpelier Chamber of Commerce
• NASG/A Stamp Industries
• Pioneer Chamber of Commerce
• Siebenaler Construction
• Signature Associates
• The Bryan Times
• Trilogy Wealth Advisors

WEDCO Board of Directors

City of Bryan – Carrie Schlade, Mari Ivan Village of Edgerton – Zachary Dohner Village of Edon – Chad Ordway, Dave Loughborough Village of Holiday City – Gary Baker, Sean Rupp Village of Montpelier – Jeanette Hull, Jason Rockey Village of Pioneer – Al Fiser, Katie Wells Village of Stryker – Patsy Mealer, Beth Rediger Village of West Unity – Bryan Barshel, Joshua Fritsch Williams County – Dan Clum, Lew Hilkert Williams Co. Labor – Al LaCombe First Energy – Tim Suter Bryan Municipal Utilities – Kevin Maynard Ohio Gas – Cinthia Reed North Western Electric Co-Op – Darin Thorp

Executive Board (serving 2018-2020) Past President – Dan Clum, Williams County President – Kevin Maynard, BMU 1st Vice President – Beth Rediger, Village of Stryker 2nd Vice President – Katie Wells, Village of Pioneer Secretary – Josh Fritsch, Village of West Unity Slated to fill the vacancy of Treasurer – Lew Hilkert

WEDCO Membership & Organizational Structure

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Congratulations to all 2019 award nominees!

Business of the Year Nominee

• In 2018 20/20 announced it was adding a 6,600-ton Milacron press at its Ohio plant. The

machine features a 200-pound shot. During NPE2018 in Orlando, Ernsberger noted the press is among the largest in the industry and the largest produced by Milacron.

• 20/20 has committed to creating over 130 new jobs over the next 3 years.
• Invested over $40M into the Holiday City facility in recent years and the project will be

running at full capacity in 2020.

• The expansion project included the addition of 425,000 square feet of manufacturing and

warehouse space.

“20/20 is very involved in the community and believes in giving back… Chad Adams, COO volunteers as the Treasurer and is chair of the Finance Committee for the

• UWWC. The passion they

have for our community is easily seen through Chad and

• ther employees who

volunteer and support UWWC.”

Business of the Year Nominee

• In 2018 Spangler Candy acquired the Sweethearts

and Necco brands and purchased a 20-acre New Era campus.

• Spangler plans to renovate the campus, providing

more room for warehouse space and future expansion.

• Collaborative efforts with Bryan City Schools makes it

clear Spangler Candy is invested in not only the community, but in the future.

• Spangler Candy has continued to add employee

benefits beyond the expected and shows true commitment to the community and workforce.

Business of the Year Nominee

• Over $7M total investment made in 2018
• Estimated 20 new jobs to be created over the

next 3 years

• $600,000 in additional payroll to be created
• Received a JobsOhio $50,000 Training Grant

Business of the Year Nominee

• CKT has been a part of the community for 17 years and in that

time they have contributed to the community as both an employer of choice and a growing organization. The company is a strong supporter of United Way of Williams County, Relay for Life, Rotary, WEDCO, and a variety of community programs.

• Since 2011 CKT has been a strong supporter of Montpelier

Schools robotics program, hosts student tours, provides scholarships to students, participates in STEAM programming and serves on advisory boards.

• CK Technologies is on target to be a leader in the plastic

injection molding arena.

• CKT has a variety of employee benefits and offers employee

training and development scholarships and services.

Business of the Year Nominee

• Rupp Enterprises owns over 1,750,000 sq. ft. of

industrial space spread over 22 buildings throughout Northwest Ohio and Northeast Indiana.

• Sean and Jim Rupp have been strong partners with

the Village of West Unity.

• In 2018 the Rupp’s donated property to enable the

Village of West Unity in building a new water tower and donated $8,000 towards fire pump tank repairs.

Business of the Year Nominee

• Bard Manufacturing is a firm leader in the HVAC industry.

This success is due to combining “quality products and

• utstanding service and innovation and technological

advances”.

• In 2018 Bard expanded its facilities with a 15,000 sq. ft.

addition housing engineering, research and development, and a new HVAC testing lab.

• Bard has proved to be a strong community partner and

and most recently donated $400,000 to the YMCA capital campaign.

New Business of the Year Community of the Year Business of the Year

2019 WEDCO AWARD WINNERS

Stay up to date Visit www.wedco.info

Special thanks to our keynote speaker, Mike Jay, Director of Strategic Networks

Matt Davis, AICP, EDFP

Executive Director economic@wedco.info

Megan Puehler, MBA

Assistant Director

• ffice@wedco.info

1425 East High St. Bryan, Ohio 43506 419-636-8727 www.wedco.info @WilliamsCountyEconomicDevelopment