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  • 1. Create the Nevada Job Bonds Support Fund
  • 2. Require State and Local Governments to Dedicate Annual Appropriations / Authorizations to Capital Programs
  • 3. Eliminate Tax Rate Sunsets Dedicated to Capital Projects
  • 4. Provide a Streamlined Permitting Process and Permit and Planning Fee Abatements
  • 5. Index the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax
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  • 1. Create the Nevada Job Bonds Support Fund
  • 2. Require State and Local Governments to Dedicate Annual Appropriations / Authorizations to Capital Programs
  • 3. Eliminate Tax Rate Sunsets Dedicated to Capital Projects
  • 4. Provide a Streamlined Permitting Process and Permit and Planning Fee Abatements
  • 5. Index the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax
  • Create a User-based Funding Mechanism to Support the Construction of Transmission Lines
  • Create Industrial Hubs with Development and Transmission of Clean Energy, Transportation, and Communication Capabilities
  • Require the State of Nevada to Produce and Publish a Rolling Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan
  • Require A “Yellow Pages” Test for All State and Local Government Development, Design and Construction Projects
  • Require Local Governments to Include a Schedule in Their Annual Capital Improvement Programs that Shows the Funding Status
  • Prohibit the Use of any Dedicated Capital Dollars for the On-Going Operations of State and Local Governments
  • Dedicate a Set Percentage of State General Fund Reversions to Economic Development Programs
  • Restructure State Economic Incentives to Favor Employee Training Programs
  • Create an Economic Incentive Program for Businesses that Work to Attract Their Suppliers to Nevada
  • Research-to-Results Program: Make 20 Percent of University System Funding Competitive Based on Economic Development Outcomes
  • Create a Job Corps for People Receiving Unemployment Insurance Benefits Longer than 20 Weeks
  • Modify The Millennium Scholarship Program to Offset Tuition Costs For Students Concentrating In Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics
  • Consider The Creation Of A Private Equity Program, Which Invests The State’s Severance Tax Permanent Fund In Qualifying Private Equity And Venture Capital Firms
  • Create an iHub System, Leveraging Assets Such As Research Parks, Technology Incubators, Universities, And Federal Laboratories
  • Create Aggressive Tax Credits For Start-Up Companies In Research And Development (Similar To Utah’s Centers Of Excellence Program)
  • Create A Nevada Modified Business Tax Credit Of Up To 10 Percent of Total Liability
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Building Jobs Coalition of Nevada

About the
Building Jobs Coalition

An essential element of Nevada’s ability to recover is needed investment in the state’s roads and highways; its schools and universities; its water, sewer and flood control infrastructure; and its hospitals, prisons and other government facilities. It is vitally important that Nevada not only stop the diversion of money away from these programs but also find ways to accelerate their construction. It is also imperative that Nevada-based companies, employing Nevada-based workers, are given first priority for all state and local projects. This puts Nevada’s construction and development workers back to work while at the same time positioning the economy for future growth.

The Coalition’s origins are in the construction and development industries, but its focus is broad- based. Today, there are more than 180,000 Nevada residents actively looking for work, translating into the highest rate of unemployment in the United States. Getting construction workers back on the job will require wide-spread economic recovery. To this end, the Coalition is working together with other industries, legislators and other community leaders to develop and vet a series of job-creation strategies.

This white paper is a working draft of those strategies. It is not offered as, nor intended to be, a comprehensive solution. Rather, it is a compilation of ideas developed through research, discussions with legislators in and out of Nevada, and input from industry leaders. Some strategies may be mutually exclusive; others may be proven infeasible. That said, the ultimate objective of this exercise is to refine this document over the next several months so that vetted, actionable strategies that can be delivered to the Nevada State Legislature in advance of convening its 2011 Regular Session.

For more information regarding the Coalition please contact the Coalition at (702) 796-9986.