The Rally survey wasn’t by the City of Dayton- it was the Dayton Development Coalition.

Above is the link for both citizens & business leaders to fill out a survey for Moraine’s consultant firm.  Looks like a more productive survey than what City of Dayton was asking for at the rally.

@David, the Moraine City site has an annoucement for citizens to hold public office. Maybe you could do a trial run of your candidate training/education program & help get some active Moraine citizens prepared to lead.

Moraine Hires Consultant To Find New Jobs
The City of Moraine now has a plan to bounce back after General Motors closed the truck plant and eliminated thousands of jobs. City officials said they are hiring a special consultant to put together a plan to bring in new jobs and launch a comprehensive development plan. The city has hired an experienced consulting company to come up with the plan to bring in new jobs to the former GM site. Jean Matheny, Acting Mayor of Moraine said, “These people can do a lot for us, broaden our horizons, bring it back. We won’t be the ghost town that everybody thinks we’re going to be.”
Tackling the 300 acre complex will be Angelou Economics, a multinational consulting company based in Texas. The company will devise a plan for one employer or several companies to possibly relocate to the facility. Steve Vierck, of Angelou Economics said, “I think you want to keep options open. Somebody may take the entire building, but also an option would be to split it up into smaller spaces for uses. There’s been different types of spaces for uses like distribution or manufacturing.”
Moraine has not heard much about when the property might be available for redevelopment, but the city is planning ahead with the consultant’s help. Moraine City Manager David Hicks said, “They’ll give us target industries with specific companies to identify that we should go after in the future. That’s comforting to know that they’re not giving us a generic plan, go after aerospace or green energy, they’ll give us target industries with the possibility of expanding in the region.” City leaders said the study should be back in about six months. Between now and then, the city will keep the community informed through a Web site and meetings.

GM emerged from bankruptcy July 10th, until they repay some of the bailout $ I would assume that a sale like this will take approval by the US Govt representative.

Exerpt From Washington Post
“Formed by the sale of most of the old company’s assets out of bankruptcy, the new GM will be an anomaly among American businesses because most of it will be owned by the U.S. and Canadian governments. The U.S. Treasury owns 60.8 percent of the new company’s common stock, the UAW retiree health trust has 17.5 percent and the governments of Canada and Ontario 11.7 percent.
Henderson said the company would seek to repay the U.S. investment, but stopped short of promising that taxpayers will recover all of the $50 billion they have put into the company. The company’s stock value would have to rise to unprecedented levels for the U.S. to break even on its investment.
Company officials instead seized on the company’s emergence from 40 days in bankruptcy to advertise their efforts to reorient the failed automaker. ”

Does anyone know of any past or current proactive steps that are in the works?

Thanks for the link.