Doug and Shannon Buckmaster talk about public-private partnerships and the importance of community.

Shannon is the Economic Development Manager in the town of Newberg where Doug currently lives.

Doug's business specializes in partnering with companies and non-profits to create value and capture cost savings without layoffs to fund growth and strengthen financial results. 

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Welcome to the terminal value Podcast where each episode provides in depth insight about the long term value of companies and ideas in our current world. Your host for this podcast is Doug Utberg, the founder and principal consultant for Business of Life, LLC.

Doug: Welcome to the total value podcast. I'm Doug Utberg and I have Shannon Buckmaster with me from the city of Newberg. And now for those of you who know me, Newberg is where I live. For those of you who don't know me, Newberg is where I live and it's a smaller town. It's not a tiny town, but it's live, it's South of Portland. And most people who don't live in the area don't know about it. But I happen to think that it is the best town on the face of the planet. I'm certain Shannon would agree. And one of the things that I wanted to do was to talk with everybody just about, you know, about what the local experience is like, because in the corporate media, everybody hears about everybody hears about the big cities that people have been hearing about Portland because of fires and protests and things like that. but real life happens locally. And so that's one of the reasons why I really like to bring a local flavor. So Shan please introduce yourself a little bit, help everybody, help everybody to understand why we all love Newberg so much.

Shannon: Well, thank you for inviting me Doug. I'm pleased to join you this afternoon and highlight our lovely little community, which is a growing community, right? We're located in Yamhill County. 

Doug: Yeah.

Shannon: We're bordered by three, officially two Metro counties, Marion County and Washington County, but we're also very close to Multnomah Clackamas County. 

Doug: Yap.

Shannon: So we're really kind of the first rural experience when you're coming out of the Portland area. When you come down Rex Hill and you see all the, all the vineyards and the hospital and our cute little downtown area coming up, like that's really your gateway into the rural wine country experience and it's on your way to the coast. So I'm sure you all have been through Newberg. You may not have really thought about it on your, on your way through. 

Doug: Yeah.

Shannon: We are down with about 24,000 people here so far, we're growing so rapidly. Actually. I just heard an estimate that we're expected to maybe have around 50,000 people in our town by 2070.

Doug: Yes. Yap. That's quite a year.

Shannon: Seems like it's forever away, but the older I get the faster time goes, so basically tomorrow, we have some.

Doug: Yeah exactly.

Shannon:...