On Tuesday, December 7, 2004 GEM conducted the 2004 Annual Meeting at the Plum Brook Country Club. 

Election of New Board Members
Ed Asher reviewed the nominating committee's recommendations to fill an unexpired term in the 2005 class.  
Jack Jones - Poggemeyer Design Group 
The 2007 class
Bob Hille - Fifth Third Bank
Charles Robinson - Delphi Automotive
Scott Stipp - District Petroleum Products
Dan Moncher - Firelands Regional Medical Center
Charles Riesterer - Citizen's Banking Company. 

Director's Report
2004 Year In Review, covered the major events that happened at GEM.   The $1.25 Million capital campaign GROW ERIE NOW! was the major time consuming project for Mark this past year.  In addition to the campaign, Mark assisted Florence Township in becoming an enterprise zone, partnered with the City of Vermilion to market the Lorain County side of the city as well as the Erie County side, and finalized the Kalahari Resort project, which is slated to open in May of 2005.  Mark also covered GEM's goals for the next five-years.  

"Driving Business to Northern Ohio"
by Ron Starner, Director of Publications - Site Selection Magazine
The focus of this presentation is of the manufacturing job movement, attributes in a community that corporate site selectors want, how Ohio measures up in actual economic performance, how Sandusky and Huron stack up versus the competition and what GEM/community leaders can do to bring high-wage jobs to Erie County.  Site Selection Magazine has ranked Sandusky as tied for 16th and Huron tied for 74th among the top small towns in the US.  Erie County is the only county to have two Cities ranked in the top 100.

Pictured Above:Ron Starner, Director of Publications for Site Selection Magazine.

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