The Impact of Affordable Workforce Housing Summit

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