Among individual needs, besides those mentioned, youth services again are highest priority, with child care services, leadership development, senior support, and transportation. Except for sewer systems and CDB infrastructure not much infrastructure improvement or business development needed. Youth services still considered highly urgent, with child care centers and services, and economic development studies. Manufacturing and Business Expansion again leads the way for ED group, and Workforce Recruitment is assigned much higher priorities than in smaller places. Home-based business support gains priority and leads the BD group.
Youth services are still urgent, and economic development studies remain urgent as well.
Home-based business centers lost ground in BD needs to business incubators and information technology centers. Traditional need groups still strong, but more convergence between these and the Public Facility and Infrastructure Improvement groups. Workforce recruitment needs maintaining high priority. Youth services still rate a high priority, but less so relative to other needs as now domestic violence support needs make a priority jump. Towns larger than 50,000 There were relatively few responses from our two communities in this class, but ED, and BD for that matter, for the first time, takes a back seat to Public Facility, Infrastructure Improvement, and Public Service needs.