SEEDA Considering Creating A Full Time Position

The Sheridan Economic and Education Development Authority could soon be looking for help in running its operations.

According to administrator Robert Briggs, SEEDA has been around since 2007, and since that time it has grown into an economic development entity that owns $25 million in assets.

Since 2009, SEEDA work has fallen to an employee of the city or Sheridan College, on top of what they are already doing, and Briggs is currently the Associate Vice President of Planning, Research and Institutional Effectiveness at the College.

He says SEEDA has grown to a degree that having only part-time workers could hinder further growth.

“Not only does that help care for SEEDA’s assets, it helps provide additional bandwidth and capacity, but it also allows SEEDA to engage in some of the other economic development work in the community more fully, such as business recruitment and working to support our local businesses and expansion.”

Briggs adds a working group could have a proposal together by SEEDA’s spring meeting sometime in April.