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Funding for GSI works

What has been the No. 1 topic the public has been talking about for the past few years? Jobs for themselves and their kids! Everyone wants to get this economy moving more briskly, except several candidates for Spokane County commissioner.

Rob Chase, Daryl Romeyn and John Roskelley have all said they would cut funding for economic development if elected. Isn’t that just what we need? Recent economic development work by Greater Spokane Incorporated has resulted in Caterpillar hiring 100 people for their new logistics center, dozens of construction jobs as the new medical school building goes up and hundreds of ongoing construction jobs on buildings at Fairchild Air Force Base and on the North Spokane Corridor.

These projects happen when the county joins with five cities and hundreds of businesses to support unified, focused economic development that successfully leads to new jobs. So, if you hear candidates saying they will cut funding to GSI, then they are really cutting job growth, plain and simple.

Tom Quigley

Spokane

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