Private Industry Council offers plan to Lyon County commissioners to address workforce shortage
Retention and retainment.
Call it what you want, that’s the name of the game for leaders of the Southwest Minnesota Private Industry Council, who presented a plan at last week’s Lyon County Board of Commissioners meeting in hopes of not only slowing the exodus of students from the area, but figuring out a way to entice them to return to work and start a family.
Carrie Bendix and Maria Peterson of the PIC met with commissioners at the Aug. 1 meeting along with Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce President Brad Gruhot to bounce an idea off them that they hope would go a long way to bringing Minnesota students who left the state for college back for a summer internship.
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