Covington mayor gathering IDEAs
through certification program

By Debbie Glover
St. Tammany News
Published on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 9:50 AM CST

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Economic development, strategic planning for communities and building a competitive community with an attractive quality of life are only a few of the topics of the Louisiana Industrial Development Executives Association (IDEA)’s economic development certification program course that Covington Mayor Candace Watkins is attending this week in Baton Rouge.

Watkins said that participating in courses like these continuously gives her training to implement programs and ideas for growth in the city of Covington.

She will be commuting to Baton Rouge each day and plans to use the knowledge obtained through the course and seminars to further economic development and planning in the city.

Other seminars in the four-day course include retail expansion and downtown redevelopment, workforce development from the ground up, business retention and expansion, developing an entrepreneurial economy, finance in the local economic development world, effective targeted marketing for business recruitment and managing the economic development organization.

Also of interest to the city because of its designation as a retirement community is a forum on tourism, retirees and economic development.

Watkins has attended many programs in the past through grants and other funding and has implemented many of the principles she has learned through such programs.

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