[CPEO-IRF] Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME) workers

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Governor's council ponders program to save BNAS jobs

Seth_Koenig
Brunswick Times ecord (ME)
October 31, 2007

BATH - A panel of Gov. John Baldacci's advisers Tuesday considered 
creating a model corporation that would employ civilian base workers 
after the Navy leaves Brunswick in 2011.

The plan could offer continued employment to more than 600 non-military 
Brunswick Naval Air Station workers who would otherwise be in jeopardy 
of losing their jobs when the base closes. But the proposal won't move 
forward without a business plan identifying the base workers as 
marketable in the region.

Steve Sorett, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney with McKenna Long and 
Aldridge LLP, described Transitional Benefit Corporations during 
Tuesday's regular meeting of the Governor's Advisory Council at the Bath 
CareerCenter. The council is a regional group assembled to guide 
Baldacci on matters relating to the redevelopment of Brunswick Naval Air 
Station.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/70F86E69B51677AB05257385005698AB?Opendocument

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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