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Business Leaders Offer Ideas To Jump-Start Economy

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Published: January 15, 2009

TAMPA - Three Florida business leaders have offered job creation proposals to the state Senate Select Committee on Florida's Economy.

• Providing maximum flexibility for the implementation of the class size amendment

• Emergency lifting of permitting restrictions that obstruct growth

• Using Florida-based employers to immediately begin $7 billion of "shovel ready" projects

• Increased research and development incentives.

The three leaders are: former House Speaker Allan Bense, now a partner with GAC Contractors and vice chairman of Enterprise Florida Inc.; Marshall Criser III, president of AT&T Florida and chairman of the Florida Chamber of Commerce; and Susan Story, president and chief executive of Gulf Power and chairwoman of The Florida Council of 100.

"What we're talking about is a jump-start for Florida's economy," Bense said in a release. "For us, we're looking at a short-term system where we inject the capital, remove the obstructions, and shock this economy into moving forward."

The proposals were presented Tuesday in Tallahassee.

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