Sheboygan-WI

8 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 5 development program, ‘Someplace Better,’ is helping businesses to attract workers, while promoting Sheboygan as an ideal place to live, work, and play. “At any given stage, we have 3,500 to 4000 positions open in a county of 115,000, and the city’s unemployment rate is less than 2%. In order to fill positions in this county, we need to recruit from the outside and our quality of life and our partners in the Economic Development Corporation and the Chamber of Commerce are key to helping us do that,” Pelishek says. Collaboration with higher education institutions, such as Lakeshore Technical College, Lakeland University, and UW Green Bay Sheboygan Campus is also vital to workforce development, as well as providing higher education options that keep youth in the community. However, engagement with students starts much earlier. Pelishek suggests, “We know that we need to be competitive and really start engaging with students at younger ages.” From simple projects like water sampling and trash clean up to STEM activities at the local library, children in the community are exposed to the variety of opportunities the city has to offer. “We’ve partnered with a number of larger