Comprehensive Workforce Solutions
• Invest in regional workforce grants and programs to support talent attraction, acclimation, retention, and development of workforce.
• Invest in comprehensive systems approaches to workforce.
• Continue investing into automation programs and incentives to maximize efficiency and safety as well as support the challenges of a global workforce shortage.
• Identify and invest in quality-of-life assets and placemaking infrastructure to enhance the State’s attraction and retention efforts.
• Continue investing in programs that incentivize the availability and accessibility of workforce housing.

Quality, Accessible, and Affordable Childcare
• Advance public-private partnership models for childhood and school-aged care providers to provide communities with affordable and accessible care.
• Create a sustainable and stable childhood and school-aged care sector through adequate funding, grants, incentives, training, and shared service resources.

Building a Community for the Future
• Fund the construction of a new Dilworth Fire Station to provide citizens with reliable public service.
• Further invest in regional flood protection by funding the construction of the Moorhead Flood Mitigation projects.
• Invest in the renovation of Weld Hall at MSUM, to ensure it is restored, modernized, and equipped for 21st-century learning.
• Invest in Career Workforce Academies to create a strong pipeline of workers for in-demand fields, as well as upskill the current workforce.
• Fund and support initiatives and programs to increase post-secondary student attraction and retention.

Business and Community Vitality
• Ensure all policies, programs, initiatives, and incentives are comprehensive and inclusionary of Greater Minnesota communities.
• Support border city programs and policies to keep Moorhead/ Dilworth competitive with neighboring North Dakota cities.
• Re-examine Minnesota residency requirements that exist for eligibility of state grants. to accommodate communities along the border.
• Evaluate the State’s existing tax structure and implement policies and initiatives that prioritize the State’s global competitiveness and reflect a fair and balanced tax system.

  Comprehensive Workforce Solutions
• Further invest in Regional Workforce Grants to support talent attraction, acclimation, retention, and development.
• Invest in comprehensive systems approaches to workforce.
• Expand the Refugee Office to streamline refugee and immigration services to businesses and employers.
• Review and simplify occupational licensing processes and reciprocity regulations.
• Identify and invest in quality-of-life assets and placemaking infrastructure to enhance the State’s attraction and retention efforts.
• Continue investing in programs that incentivize the availability and accessibility of workforce housing.

Quality, Accessible and Affordable Childcare
• Integrate initiatives and policies that enhance the efficiency of the processes required for employment at a childhood or school-aged care facility.
• Review and adjust regulations and codes associated with establishing and operating a childhood or school-aged care facility to address burdensome regulatory barriers without diminishing quality and safety.
• Advance public-private partnership models for childhood and school-aged care providers to provide communities with affordable and accessible care.
• Create a sustainable and stable childhood and school-aged care sector through adequate funding, grants, incentives, training and shared service resources.

Competitive Educational Systems
• Evaluate both the K-12 and Higher Education Funding Formulas to ensure on-time and adequate funding.
• Reinstate the Higher Education Funding Formula’s floor for funding reductions with a new hold harmless rate at 0%.
• Fund capital project requests of NDSU’s Engineering Building & NDSCS’s Precision Agriculture Tech Center expansion.
• Provide regional Career Workforce Academy funding as was previously appropriated, adjusting for inflation, considering federal funding delays.
• Fund and support initiatives and programs to increase post-secondary student attraction and retention.
• Expand the scope and funding of existing programs and initiatives that provide career awareness and readiness including Operation Intern, Career Builders, and dual credit opportunities for K-12 students.

Business and Community Vitality
• Support a sustainable funding model that ensures the completion of the Red River Valley Water Supply Project to provide reliability and predictability in our region’s water supply.
• Authorize the regional investment of $1.9 million into a Base Retention Grant Program, specifically for Fargo, Minot, and Grand Forks, for military recruitment, awareness, and federal advocacy efforts.
• Promote flexibility in the National Guard’s Tuition Assistance to allow for state assistance to transfer to bordering states’ educational institutions.
• Expand Medicaid benefits for qualified individuals to provide access to affordable healthcare services.
• Expand affordable behavioral health services.
• Expand impactful economic development programs and initiatives including the automation tax credit, LIFT program, and Legacy Fund principal investments.
• Evaluate the State’s existing tax structure and implement policies and initiatives that prioritize the State’s global competitiveness and reflect a fair and balanced tax system.