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Sixth
Annual Oregon Leadership Summit
Moving Forward On
December 3 2007, over 1000 business, elected, and community leaders came together for
the 6th Annual Oregon Leadership Summit. This page provides information
and materials from the Summit.
Agenda
Policy
Playbook and Initiative Guide
New
Initiative Proposals
Cluster
Resource Guide
Remarks
(transcripts)
Slides
Voting
Results
Multimedia
Media
coverage
Comments
New Initiative Proposals:
Federal Forest
Restoration. Contact
the Initiative Leaders Wade
Mosby, Steve
Grasty and Russ
Hoeflich.
A Fresh Look at Land
Use. Contact
the Initiative Leaders Steve
Clark and David
Bragdon.
Ecosystem Services
Marketplace.
Contact
the Initiative leaders Bill
Gaffi and Allen
Alley.
Oregon as a Center for Sustainability
Learning. Contact the Initiative Leaders Susan
Bragdon and Mark
Edlen
Remarks
(Transcripts)
Ron
Wyden, United States Senator
Steve
Pratt, ESCO Corp.
Will
Swope, Intel Corporation.
Ron Saxton,
JELD-WEN, inc
Peggy
Fowler, PGE
Ted
Kulongoski, Governor of Oregon
Multimedia
A DVD of the Summit is available
for $10. For a DVD copy, please send a check for $10 to the Oregon
Business Council, 1100 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1608 Portland, OR
97204.
Video
Highlights
News
Articles and Editorials
Read what others are saying about the Oregon Leadership Summit
and the Oregon Business Plan
Articles
- Transportation tops to-do list. The Oregonian,
December 4, 2007. Legislators and businesses plan ways to
upgrade Oregon's aging roads and bridges. Read
more.
- Turning concepts into cash. The
Oregonian, December 4, 2007. Leaders ask if the state's
sustainability special push adds jobs for the middle class. Read
more...
- Oregon Governor Urges a New Bridge. Houston
Chronicle. December 4, 2007. Gov. Ted Kulongoski urged
Congress and Oregon business leaders on Monday to support a replacement
for the aging Interstate Bridge across the Columbia River, saying it has
become a serious bottleneck to West Coast traffic and shipping that will
hurt the national economy. Read
more.
- New Green Initiatives.
Leadership Summit attendees electronically
registered straw votes on several proposals to further state progress on
the sustainability front. Read
more.
- Kulongoski, summit leaders call for gas tax
Portland Business Journal -
December 3, 2007
Authors of the Oregon Business Plan's transportation policies recommended
that the state fund any improvement-driven investments by increasing gas
taxes, ... Read
more.
- Five questions with Steve Pratt The Oregonian,
December 2, 2007. Steve Pratt, president of the Northwest Portland
metals manufacturer Esco Corp., is this year's chairman of the Oregon
Business Plan. As such, he'll be the man introducing the plan at Monday's
Leadership Summit, the annual event in which the business community
unveils its big-picture legislative agenda and strategic prescriptions to
grow the state economy. Read
more.
- Green focus pays, but work remains. Portland
Business Jounral, November 30, 2007. Much of next
week's annual Oregon Leadership Summit will build on last year's
"Gaining Sustainable Advantage" theme...read
more
- Transportation Needs Finally Getting Attention. Lake
Oswego Review. November 22, 2007. The Leadership
summit next month will offer great chance to tackle transportation
issues....read
more
Editorials
- Transportation
rises on the agenda
Oregon Senate President and courtly comic Peter Courtney turned serious
briefly on Monday when speaking to the attendees at the Oregon Business
Plan's annual leadership summit at the Oregon Convention Center. He
praised the work of business leaders who have pushed state officials to
take responsibility for Oregon's decaying infrastructure. They had
succeeded, he told them. Read
more.
In the Blogosphere
Comments
If you participated in the Summit, please take a
post-event survey here. Please send
additional comments on the Sixth Annual Summit and the Oregon Business Plan to info@oregonbusinessplan.org.
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