The Impact of Affordable Workforce Housing Summit
Thursday, September 24, Grouse Mountain Lodge, Whitefish
8:00 am Registration and healthy breakfast buffet
8:30 am Welcome * Purpose of the Summit
Rick Weaver, Chairman, Montana West Economic Development, and Dan Graves, Chairman, Whitefish Chamber of Commerce Economic Development committee
Why affordable workforce housing is important to Whitefish /Flathead County
Mayor, John Muhlfeld, City of Whitefish
A window into the data and examples of solutions from other communities
Robert Horne, Jr., AICP, Applied Communications LLC, Whitefish
9:30am Workforce housing tools – what is working now, identified challenges
Whitefish Housing Authority Perspective, Lori Collins, Director
Community Land Trusts, speaker TBD
City tools, Chuck Stearns, City Manager, Whitefish
10:10am Break
10:20am Round table discussions
11:15am Reports/Next steps
11:45am Wrap up/adjourn
Hosted by the City of Whitefish, Whitefish Chamber of Commerce and
Montana West Economic Development Corporation
Sponsored by the Daily Interlake and the Whitefish Pilot