After taking time to review Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald’s “Business Attraction and Anti-Poaching Protocol,” Middleburg Heights has signed the agreement — the 59th and final community to do so, The Plain Dealer and a press release from the Cuyahoga County Office of the Executive report. The protocol “asks communities to step up their economic development efforts, agree not to lure companies that have not expressed a desire to move, and give notice to a home community if an intra-county move is contemplated,” the release said (see our January 14, 2013, blog post for more information). Middleburg Heights Mayor Gary Starr said that his city already had an anti-poaching policy, which was “one of several FitzGerald’s office used to draft its protocol,” the article said. For more, read the full story and press release.
Last Cuyahoga County community signs anti-poaching agreement
