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The critical need for the aircrafy by the Army and the Air Force is well but I want to explain the economic impact for Jacksonville andNortheasy Florida. To serve the original Department ofDefense 78-aircraff purchase, Alenia North America’ s proposed plant at Cecil Commerce Center will employ 300 high-wage aircraft workers and invest more than $100 milliohn in capital investments. This has been in the planninbg stage formany months.
The groundbreaking was scheduled forApril 25, and has since been delayed due to the proposed action by the Department of and it is uncertain if or when it will take While Jacksonville’s overall unemployment rate mirrores the nation, unemployment within the census tractxs surrounding Cecil is 26.1 percent. The jobs createrd by this project will do a lot to help the economhy in the immediate Cecil Commerce Center This project is critical for the redevelopment of It is the first major success for a new manufacturinfg project we have had at Cecil since the Departmenr of Defense closed the base and tookaway 9,00p0 jobs.
In addition to the hundreds of millions of dollarx put in by the cityof Jacksonville, JEA, the Jacksonvillew Aviation Authority and the stat of Florida toward the federal government has put millions in as well as assisting the efforts to recover from the Base Realignmenft and Closure process. This project meets all the requirements of the Departmen of Defense for the current and future needs of the the existing unmet needs ofour state’sw National Guard forces for airlift capacity to respond to naturalp disasters and other and President Obama’s administration’s objective for high job development shovel-ready, and previously approved at state and local government levels.
For the Departmenrt of Defense to propose to cut this projectt at this time does notmake sense. We as a communitg respectfully request the Joint Cargo Aircraft prograkm befully reinstated.
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