Tracy, California

well as a slew of nonprofits that want to partner with our schools to help create the best experiences for our youth here in the community. Our town is known for good schools, good academic success, incorporating STEM programs into the curriculum, as well as partnerships with service clubs like 4-H, Scouts, and churches.” Of Tracy itself, Malik says, “I’ve been here about 23 years. When I first got here, the town was about 35,000 population and now we’re 94,000. Part of that 30-year master plan was setting up the next 30 years of growth for residential. We’ve more than doubled our population from 1990 to today, plus industrial growth as well; we had 6,000 new jobs over the last couple of years. California is not necessarily the easiest place to do business. This Council put money in the infrastructure, with the developments, so we are plug-and- play in a lot of these industrial areas. Amazon was one of the first in our region about four years ago. In fact, it’s one of their flagship