Have you recently lost your job or are you just looking for a different scenery? Kansas is wonderful state to live in, matter of fact Phillips County is a fabulous place to locate! Wondering what incentives we have for you? Let me briefly share with you! 1) ROZ-Rural Opportunity Zones are 50 counties that have been authorized to offer one or both of the following financial incentives to new full-time residents: Kansas income tax waivers for up to five years and Student loan repayments up to $15,000. Doesn’t that sound great! Well of course it does! http://www.kansascommerce.com/index.aspx?nid=320 This link will give you more information about ROZ and what it has to offer! Or contact the Phillips County Economic Development Office at 785.543.5809 or by email: pced2@ruraltel.net We would love to help! I’m sure you’re wondering what other reasons there are for moving to this county!? Honestly I just wanted to you about ROZ! So go to the link and check it out! If you’re wondering what you’ll do for work check this website out www.discoverpced.com and click Employment! We update our county’s job openings weekly! Thanks for reading!
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Directoring of Nursing,RN-Phillips County Retirement Center-Phillipsburg, KS
Phillips County Retirement Center is a 60 bed nursing facility, looking for an energetic caring RN to lead our as Director of Nursing. Applicant must possess good people and leadership skills and have knowledge of MDS assessments. Offering a competitive salary, excellent working conditions and good benefit package. Contact Kris Kuck at 785.543.2131 for more information.
Business Programs working in unison to help Phillips County’s Economy!
Phillips County E-Community has had some great success collaborating with multiple development organizations to help with financing new, succession and existing business projects with their Entrepreneurship Community Partnership loan. Over a period of a year, between June 2011 and 2012, a cumulative total of $130,878 E-community loan funds were used to help six businesses in the Phillips County area. These e-community dollars through the Phillips County E-Community loan program were used in conjunction with six (6) other financing avenues with corresponding matched funds: Phillips County Economic Development – Entrepreneurial Business and Enhancement ‘grant’ program ($131,953), NetWork Kansas – StartUp Kansas loan program ($112,369), Kansas Capital Multiplier Loan program ($15,000), Private Venture funding ($100,000), Local Bank loan financing ($263,600) and Business owner’s private funds invested ($127,000). The total cumulative cost for all the projects amounted to $880,800. These projects created ten (10) new jobs and helped preserve fifteen (15) existing jobs in the county during this same time frame. For a county with only 5650 residents, having 25 jobs (workers) positively impacted in the community shows the beneficial and cooperative points for the E-community program. Erik Pedersen, Network Kansas director, stated: “It is very exciting to see the creative and collaborative way the Phillips County Entrepreneurship (E-) Community team is working to provide financing which is enabling local businesses to start and expand. The jobs created and preserved will have a tremendous impact in Phillips County”.
Posted 7-26-2012
Jeff Hofaker
Scholarship For Non Traditional Students
Applications are now being accepted for the Phillips County Economic Development Scholarship for Non Traditional Students. This scholarship is to help and encourage people in Phillips County who want to upgrade their work skills by furthering their education.
Applications for the scholarship are available at the Phillips County Economic Development Office located in the Fischer Building in Phillipsburg. Recipients will be selected by a scholarship committee.
Applications are due by May 1st
Non Traditional Student Scholarship
Phillips County Neighborhood Revitalization Plan Property Tax Rebate Program:
One of the primary reasons for the Phillips County Neighborhood Revitalization Plan (NRP) is to encourage growth for our businesses and communities through improvements. It has been proven in many counties which have long standing, revitalization plan, that such a plan; 1) increases potential for existing businesses to want to grow, 2) increases potential for new business creation, 3) increases the potential for new housing development, and 4) provides better opportunity for new residents to purchase these new homes utilizing the plan (faster turnover with home purchase). The Phillips County NRP is simply a property tax rebate program. It will be county-wide and include those taxing districts that choose to become a part of it. This program DOES NOT allow any CURRENT paid (established) property taxes from being paid by property owners; so, there is not any loss of current revenues. It is designed to provide a ‘percentage’ of their taxes to be rebated ONLY on NEW IMPROVEMENTS made on properties. This rebate program will be for future property improvements. To qualify an improvement MUST be over $10,000 dollars in appraised value. A rebate cap of a $150,000 appraised value dollars will be placed on housing, with the exception to be made on multi-family dwelling construction projects. A qualified applicant for the rebate program will only get the tax rebate after paying in that year’s full taxes on the improvement. The qualified applicant also must be current on ALL taxes to be involved with the program.
-BEFORE you start an improvement project talk with the County Appraiser at the Phillips County Courthouse about this program and to start the process at 785-543-6810.
Truck Drivers-Groendyke-Phillipsburg, KS
Regional drivers needed. Industry leading pay, health, dental and disablility Insurance, 401k w/company match, vacation pay, hoiday pay, safety pay and uniforms.
Contact 1-800445-8711 or check us out on the web and fill in an on-line application: www.groendyke.com
Phillips County is a ROZ county, which could allow a new resident to qualify for the student loan forgiveness program (in-state or out-of-state applicants) or for the Kansas Income Tax forgiveness program (only for out-of-state resident applicants). More information is at www.KansasCommerce.com and search ROZ.
Local Business People Return from Destination Business
Six local businesses returned last week from a business improvement “Destination BootCamp” held in Longmont, Colorado, where they leaned hundreds of new methods to bring more customers and tourists to Phillips County.
Among the group to attend include: Stacie Wenzl – Wenzl Drug, Erik Willer – Willer’s Casual Dining, Ginger Tweedy – Area Insight, Setul Parikh – Mark V Motel, Debra Dillon –Logan area business, Dustin Cheney –Phillipsburg Chiropractic Center, and Kera Nuckolls –Discover Phillipsburg Main Street as the Community Coordinator.
Phillips County Economic Development committed to fund the registration fee for six Phillips County businesses and one Community Coordinator to attend per year for four years. This is the third group to attend the two and one-half day, 20-hour workshop that also included approximately twenty-five other business representatives from across North America.
Destination Business BootCamp was created by marketing consultant Jon Schallert, who teaches independent business owners on how to reposition their businesses as “consumer destinations”.
According to Schallert, a business using his Destination Business strategies can compete effectively with stores like Wal-Mart and Home Depot and significantly impact a local community.
Schallert notes that it is not uncommon for destination businesses to create change in an entire city, by drawing consumers, from miles around, outside the immediate marketplaces of the community.
“The Destination Business BootCamp is a must do for any small business owner who wants to set themselves apart from, ahead of, or to excel faster than the competition,” says Phillipsburg chiropractor, Dr. Dustin Cheney. “Your competition is not your competitor down the street. Your competition is the world. In today’s society, almost anything is a click away. With the tools I learned at the Destination BootCamp taught by Jon Schallert, I know that I can beat the click and continue to offer our community the highest quality chiropractic and natural health care services in the region.
Schallert’s Destination Busness BootCamp is held in Colorado three times annually. Schallert has worked with independent business owners since 1983, speaks to thousands every year, and is the President of The Schallert Group, Inc., Longmont Colorado. One newspaper called Schallert “the marketing guru rooting for the retail underdogs”. Business owners interested in attending may contact Phillips County Economic Development at 785-543-5809 for more information, or one can visit Schallert’s website at www.DestinationBootCamp.com.
Nex-Tech Features Willers Restaurant on Local TV Show
PHILLIPSBURG, KAN 2-7-12 – Nex-Tech recently filmed an episode of “Local Flavor” at Willers restaurant located at the golf course in Phillipsburg, Kansas. “Local Flavor” is a TV show produced by Nex-Tech Local TV and hosted by Deborah Anderson, a Nex-Tech employee from Lenora. The show taps the expertise of people in the Nex-Tech service area with reputations for making terrific food, and divulges recipes, tips and tricks designed to help viewers create their own culinary magic at home.
Willers owners, Scott and Kay Willer, watched “Local Flavor” on Nex-Tech TV and agreed to share some of the recipes perfected at the restaurant. The episode features Scott, along with their son, Erik, showing viewers how to make a grilled sirloin steak with homemade scallion butter and glazed baby carrots. “We usually spend Tuesdays when the restaurant is closed trying new ideas and developing new menu items. Erik came up with the brining technique for the sirloins, and this, paired with the scallion butter, has been a huge hit at Willers,” said Scott.
“I was impressed with how much Willers has to offer,” said Deborah Anderson, “Local Flavor” host. “Filming there was an absolute pleasure. Scott, Kay and Erik made us feel like family, and I have been craving those carrots ever since we finished filming. I can’t wait for them to be added to the menu at Willers, and I might even have to give them a try at home.”
The Willers Casual Dining episode is now airing on Nex-Tech Local Video on Demand and Channel 100. With Local Video on Demand, Nex-Tech TV customers can rent local programming, sports, community events and more at no charge. Local Video on Demand titles are instant rentals and can be rented at any time right from your TV using the following steps:
1. Press MENU on your remote and select RENTALS. 2. Select the FREE LOCAL category. 3. Highlight the title you want to rent and press SELECT. 4. Select RENT and enter your PIN (default PIN is 0000).
Nex-Tech is a subsidiary of Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc. and provides a full line of voice and data services to residential, government, education and commercial clients. In addition to its Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) services, Nex-Tech also provides a host of other services including long distance, VoIP, Internet, Digital TV and home security. Nex-Tech prides itself on bringing affordable, state-of-the-art technologies to central and westernKansas.
FREE WEBINARS
Inspiration & Innovation Classes for Entrepreneurs
FREE WEBINARS for Phillips County business owners and managers! Phillips County Economic Development will be showing FREE webinars in the E-Center located at the Fischer Building in Phillipsburg. PCED has become a member in the Partner Program through Jon Schallert’s Destination University and one of the benefits is to show webinars from experts and authors. One webinar will be shown each month on the 2nd Wednesday as a brown bag lunch from 12:00-1:00pm. Bring your lunch and learn about different business ideas which can improve your business! Below is the schedule of the webinars.
| Date | Topic | Time |
| 1/11/2012 | Applying the New Rules of Marketing to Your Small Business – David Meerman Scott | 12:00-1:00pm |
| 2/8/2012 | The Foundation of a Destination Business: Your Unique Positioning – Jon Schallert Using Humor in the Workplace: Create a Stronger Business and a Better Team – Michael Kerr |
12:00-1:00pm |
| 3/14/2012 | Public Relations: Get More Customers at Lower Costs: Andrea Schafer Capturing Customers in 7-Seconds When They Walk in Your Door – Jon Schallert |
12:00-1:00pm |
| 4/11/2012 | How Small Talk Can Lead to Big Results in Your Business – Debra Fine Making a Case for Store Front Improvement – Seanette Corkil |
12:00-1:00pm |
| 5/9/2012 | Financial Straight Talk: How to Keep More of What You Make – Richard Schultheis Branding Your Business – Jon Schallert |
12:00-1:00pm |
| 6/13/2012 | Introduction to Effective Email Marketing: Jon Schallert | 12:00-1:00pm |
Please RSVP with Andrea Lowry – PCED Office Manager at 785-543-5809 or pced2@ruraltel.net. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! You will want to take advantage of this great opportunity!
Destination University Membership Discounted Cost
Destination University is a membership-only program designed exclusively for independent business owners to help them grow their businesses, while increasing their sales, profits, and customer traffic. Destination University was originally created to highlight Jon Schallert’s proprietary Destination Business processes. Now, Destination University has fifteen different business experts and authors who contribute their expertise in the form of live and recorded webinars in our social networking area, the Destination University Student Center.
Members of Destination University will benefit from and have access to:
- Online training library of webinars covering many topics presented by Jon Schallert and business experts in various fields
- Monthly live webinars presented on a different topic each month by Jon Schallert or one of our other Business Experts
- An interactive social networking area where business owners can communicate with other owners and resources from around the world
- Email access to all of our Business Experts to ask a question directly to any of them
- A business resource area with companies and services that can help grow a business
Phillips County Economic Development joined the Destination University (DU) within the Partner Program to allow Phillips County business owners and managers the ability to join DU at a discounted price. A regular membership cost $29.95 a month but becoming a member under Phillips County will only cost $19.95 a month and the registration fee will be waived! This is a great opportunity for Phillips County businesses to become a member of Destination University and hook into marketing/networking insights which could lift your business! PCED will also be able to show business webinars so look for more information on the webinars coming soon
For more information about Destination University visit: www.destinationuniversity.com/