Most of the money we spend locally stays in Cortez. It creates employment and improves our services. It also encourages the service providers and retailers to improve their service. Not to be overlooked is the increase in our tax base where the money is used for improved infrastructure and amenities for the public. You rob your OWN TOWN of its progress, trade, upkeep and infrastructure.
Shopping locally is only a part of developing a more progressive tax base in Cortez.
A more diversified job base with a higher wage structure is also essential to providing a decent quality of life for the residents of Cortez. In order to develop a significant job base, an Industrial Development Authority must be established which will have authority to issue Industrial Development Bonds, acquire real estate with the proper zoning, establish enterprise zones, etc. An ambassador program will be fundamental to selling Cortez as the best place to establish a satellite or primary industry. The foregoing will result in orderly growth patterns with clean non-polluting industries. Suitable brochures professionally done, will need to be prepared.