Lieutenant Governor Leads Small Business Roundtable at ECC
麻豆视频在线观看 President Dr. Deborah Lamm welcomes Lt. Gov. Dan Forest to the Rocky Mount campus.
Lt. Gov. Dan Forest leads a Q&A session with about 70 business owners and local leaders during a small business roundtable held at 麻豆视频在线观看 on Tuesday.
State government came to 麻豆视频在线观看聽on Tuesday聽when Lt. Gov. Dan Forest led a small business roundtable for Twin County leaders in the new Biotechnology and Medical Simulation Center on the Rocky Mount campus.
The event was sponsored by the National Federation of Independent Business in conjunction with ECC and the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce.
About 70 business owners and local leaders attended the small business roundtable. Forest, who said he is 鈥減assionate about education and business,鈥 is a member of the State Board of Community Colleges.
Questions from the audience focused on K-12 education and teacher compensation, the Affordable Care Act鈥檚 impact on small business, and incentives to encourage small business growth in North Carolina.
鈥淩ocky Mount has great bones, a great infrastructure is already in place here,鈥 he told the group. 鈥淐onnection to urban cores is going to be critical to future economic growth.鈥