[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Redstone Arsenal jobs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

BRAC jobs likely to need locals
Just 15% have moved; 20 to 25% expected


By MARIAN ACCARDI
Huntsville Times (AL)
June 11, 2008

Of the 1,050 jobs that have transferred to Redstone Arsenal so far as 
part of BRAC, about 15 percent represent people who have moved with 
their jobs, says the chairman of the local BRAC committee.

That's why this area has not seen a major influx of outsiders yet, said 
Joe Ritch, a Huntsville lawyer who chairs the Tennessee Valley BRAC 
Committee. But he said that percentage will increase.

"That will have to happen at some point," Ritch said Tuesday at the 
Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce's Economic Development 
Summit, held at the Huntsville Marriott.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.al.com/business/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/business/1213175713280140.xml&coll=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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