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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Josh Adams, MBA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 10, 2016 07:01<br>
<b>To:</b> Adams, Joshua <jadams2@santarosa.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Highest Business Confidence Ever!] Sonoma County Winter 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#002ACE">ALL-TIME HIGH!</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#EB4C39"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42">Business confidence in Sonoma County has been consistently strengthening since hitting a low of 3.2 in the winter of 2008. With confidence exceeding pre-recession
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Uncertainty regarding global players such as China may postpone expenditures due to concerns about the return on investments. The chart to the right illustrates respondents attitudes toward capital expenditures in Winter 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42">CEOs cited Shortage of Skilled Labor, Permits & Regulations, and Cost of Labor as the top impediments to growth, followed by Competition and Lack of Demand. Sonoma County agencies
are dedicated to helping address these impediments to growth. Some examples of this work are described below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42">Sonoma County Permits and Resource Management Department is now offering an
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<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42">The EDB's Business Services Program,<b> </b>in partnership with Sonoma County Job Link, provides services to job seekers and specializes in helping companies fill vacant positions
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42">111 Sonoma County businesses representing 12,464 employees participated in the Winter 2016 Business Confidence Survey. These businesses represent a variety of
industries and responded with their forecasts on business conditions and key concerns for future success. Here's how the businesses breakdown by size:</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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