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Great Falls boosters say state let company, 100 jobs slip away

Great Falls development leaders say they lost a project with 100 good-paying jobs to a city in Oklahoma largely because of a shaky response by state officials.

"The state just wouldn’t give the client the level of commitment it needed, so they chose to go to Oklahoma this week," Great Falls Development Authority President John Kramer told board members Friday.

However, Evan Barrett, Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s chief business development officer, said he tried to assist the Great Falls recruiting effort.

But the state "essentially has run out of its two-year allocation of $2.6 million in workforce development training money within seven months," he said, and couldn’t match the bigger incentives offered by other states.

By PETER JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060218/NEWS01/602180302/1002

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