Economic development group asks Klamath County for $100,000


Klamath Inspire Development — Energize Acceleration would like money to start their project and help business owners take classes at the community college.

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Klamath Inspire Development — Energize Acceleration would like money to start their project and help business owners take classes at the community college.

“We really don’t do a lot of business owner training,” said Kat Rutledge, director of KCC’s small business development center. “I sit every day with entrepreneurs and they are a very different market. They aren’t individuals who are going to go and sit through a nine-week class to learn how to build a website. They are running their business. What they need is more adjusted time, isolated training targeted at business owners.”

Commissioners didn’t agree to the $100,000 funding Wednesday, but they didn’t say no, either. Commissioners Jim Bellet and Dennis Linthicum were at the meeting, Tom Mallams was absent.

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