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Tom Davis
Troy Office of University Relations
334/670-3196
tomdavis@troy.edu
Office of University Relations
253 Adams Administration
Troy, AL 36082
(334) 670-3196
(334) 670-3274 (fax)
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to sponsor program on HUBZone in Ozark Oct. 17 Federal government contractors may be able to benefit from a new federal initiative called the HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zone) Empowerment Contracting Program, which will be explained in a special program Oct. 17 sponsored by the Small Business Development Center at Troy State University. The program will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Ozark Technology Center, which is co-sponsoring the program. The program will feature representatives from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) District Office in Birmingham. In addition, Linda Gilbert, Small Business Specialist from the Fort Rucker Contracting Office, will discuss what Fort Rucker is doing through the HUBZone initiative. Linda Hammer, owner of a Slocomb-based HUBZone certified business, Hammer LGC, Inc., will also provide insight into the certification process and discuss what the HUBZone certification has meant to her business. The HUBZone program stimulates economic development and creates jobs in urban and rural communities by providing federal contracting preferences to small businesses. These preferences go to small businesses that obtain HUBZone certification in part by employing staff that live in a HUBZone. The company must also maintain a "principal office" in one of these specially designated areas. Some of the areas in Southeast Alabama that are qualified HUBZones are Butler, Covington, Crenshaw, Geneva, and Pike counties as well as parts of Dale and Houston counties. To register call the TSU-SBDC at 334-670-3771 or the Ozark Technology Center at 334-774-4952. There is no charge for this seminar. Seating is limited to the first 25 registrants. |